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Vincent Carroll

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CARROLL: Bias on the brain

November 26, 2008

Researchers have been hunting for proof of widespread bias among Denver police for most of this decade, with inconclusive results. Now they plan to do brain scans of cops - and even test blood and saliva.

CARROLL: A mortgaged future

November 21, 2008

Paul Anthony Baker is Exhibit A for why many people have mixed feelings about a broad federal bailout of those at risk of losing their homes. He's an Aurora-based mortgage broker - or was, until he agreed to surrender his license - who was co-owner of Encore Lending. He is also a cheat and a scoundrel whose career provides a bracing peek at the lengths that some people are willing to go to buy property.

CARROLL: Penley cashes in

November 20, 2008

What's wrong with this picture: Colorado State University President Larry Penley resigns this month and the CSU board hands him a year's salary, or nearly $400,000, on the way out the door.

CARROLL: Day-off reckoning

November 19, 2008

If you work for the city of Denver, you can stay home the day after Thanksgiving, but with the following catch: You won't get paid. The mayor is trying to save money in this rough economic stretch and is offering an unpaid furlough to those who want it.

CARROLL: So much for principle

November 14, 2008

The "core mission" of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "is to fight for business and free enterprise." It is also "to advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity and responsibility."

CARROLL: Like, ready to lead

November 12, 2008

So Sarah Palin is, like, ready to run for president in 2012 if, like, it is something that is going to be good for ... no, wait: Let's have her tell us, shall we?

CARROLL: History for the hopeful

November 11, 2008

When the world changes, for good or bad, some people seem to get carried away.

CARROLL: Conflict-free politics

November 6, 2008

'Imagine a world where our elected officials work as one," declared AARP in a large Election Day ad.

CARROLL: And the dead shall vote

November 4, 2008

I've been trying to imagine what would impel a judge to order the state to put 12 dead people back on the voting rolls after they'd been removed, yet that's what U.S. District Judge John Kane did last week in an attempt to show Secretary of State Mike Coffman who's boss.

CARROLL: Odious opposition

October 31, 2008

DeAngelo Starnes apparently didn't get the memo when Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Al Sharpton and the NAACP last year urged an end to the use of all racial slurs - even among minorities, even when they're meant as humor.


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