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Take Click It or Ticket and Stick It

Opinion Editorial June 9, 2004 Author: Mike Krause The Click It or Ticket season is over, at least until the next.  And while it would be nice if Colorado could say no to the seductive charms of...

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New Crimes Mean More Criminals: Colorado has plenty of both already

Opinion Editorial July 21, 2005 Author: Mike Krause and Chelsea Johnson On July 1, several dozen of the more than 400 new laws passed by the 2005 Colorado Legislature went into effect. Some of these...

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Colorado’s silly seat belt bill

Opinion Editorial April 2, 2006 Author: Mike Krause In the book “Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything,” author James V. DeLong writes, “When the government criminalizes almost...

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Hold Onto Your Assets

Opinion Editorial March 2, 2009 Author: Mike Krause Seven years ago, the Colorado legislature passed reforms to the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws, implementing important safeguards to protect...

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More Public Surveillance Means Less Liberty

Opinion Editorial October 27, 2009 Author: Lance Newman The use of public surveillance cameras to fight crime has been a heated topic for quite some time. The issue was reignited last August when the...

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Free Colorado’s Liquor Stores from Prohibition-era Rules

Free Colorado’s Liquor Stores from Prohibition-era Rules February 9, 2010 Opinion Editorial By Ari Armstrong Colorado unemployment rose back up to 7.5 percent in December. We remain in an economic...

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Legislature Restrains Its Compulsion to Overcriminalize Colorado

The Colorado legislature this year took a modest, but welcome step towards restraining its own penchant for overcriminalizing the economic and personal lives of Coloradans.  Let’s hope it makes us all...

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Cigarette smuggling to rocket with tobacco tax hike

By Michael LaFaive and Todd Nesbit An initiative that will appear on Colorado’s November’s ballot would, if adopted, nearly triple the state’s current cigarette excise tax. This, we believe the...

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