A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Health Care on Mar 6th, 2009
I’m helping to organize a Health Care for All Meeting in Colorado Springs next week, March 12. If you’re in the Colorado Springs area and interested in universal health coverage, I hope to see you there! Here’s the event description:
With rising costs and diminishing employer-based health insurance, the health care system in the United States […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 24th, 2008
As the polls are now open in Colorado, we had a fun early-voting rally for Barack Obama yesterday here in Northern Colorado Springs. About 60 of us first gathered near Starbucks on Academy:
We then walked over to the Chapel Hills Mall, site of the polling place:
We assembled in the mall parking lot (safely outside the […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 3rd, 2008
As a Barack Obama supporter, I don’t like to criticize his campaign. However, I feel compelled to point out their failure in one area: yard signs. It took me over a month to get an Obama yard sign. I first tried the local campaign office, which has been out of them for weeks (actually, they […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Election 2008, Politics on Sep 25th, 2008
My local El Paso County Clerk and Recorder, Bob Balink, evidently told Colorado College in March that students could not register to vote in Colorado if their parents claimed them as dependents in another state. The Clerk and Recorder’s office has admitted now that the information was wrong. Anyone who’s lived in Colorado for 30 […]
Posted in Education on Feb 14th, 2008
Republican state representative Larry Liston apparently believes that he has an innovative method to prevent teen pregnancy. During a recent meeting, he said,
“In my parents’ day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they [young, unwed parents] were called what they are. There was at least a sense of shame… There’s no sense […]
Posted in Education on Feb 12th, 2008
The Air Force Academy recently featured three speakers who claimed to be former terrorists who saw the error of their ways only after converting to Christianity. One of the speakers, Walid Shoebat, said, “There is no radical Islam; there is Islam itself.”
Many people have rightly spoken out against this event. However, their complaints have been […]
Posted in Civil Rights on Jan 22nd, 2008
For the past four years, a Colorado Springs middle school has been sending only black students to a district-wide MLK Day Celebration. Many in the news media have pointed out the incredible irony of segregating students in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. However, fewer have pointed out what I see as the critical district-wide […]
Posted in Politics on Jan 18th, 2008
So it turns out that Colorado Springs’ reputation as a haven for right-wing wackos isn’t entirely unearned. Douglas Bruce, former member of the El Paso county board of commissioners and recent appointee to the state House of Representatives, is proving to be an increasing embarrassment to the city. This editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette […]
Posted in Gay Rights, Letters to the Editor on Nov 4th, 2007
Our local paper, the Colorado Springs Gazette, published a letter to the editor today from my wife Sonja. The title is, “GAY UNIONS: Idea of marriage leads to irrational fears.”
Read the letter here (scroll down — it’s the last letter). Unfortunately, I can’t find the article online to which she was responding.