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		<title>(Dueling Perspectives) Labor Day: An Antiquated Remnant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Marschner
 Labor Day, the one day out of the year that we celebrate all the hard work we do, was intended as a well deserved tribute to the men and women who worked in steel mills, factories, construction, and other such positions that the ruling elite look down on as &#8220;manual, menial&#8221; careers.  Labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dueling perspectives: Labor Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Seth Ford
As the son and grandson of union members, Labor Day has a special meaning for me. When I think of Labor Day, I imagine my grandfather hanging off a bridge upside down by his ankles for refusing to call off a strike at the old CF&#38;I steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado. While I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/09/dueling-perspectives-slave-labor-day-a-farce/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Bad guy&#8217; act wasn&#8217;t always an act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The star of Robert Rodriguez&#8217;s new film, Machete, wasn&#8217;t always just acting. In a recent interview with TIME, Danny Trejo talks about his career as a juvenile drug addict and armed robber; a career that took him to &#8220;every penitentiary in the state of California&#8221; before he turned his life around and became a drug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/09/bad-guy-act-wasnt-always-an-act/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Criminals and Rehabilitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. better known to the world as the rapper T.I. made some mistakes.  Those mistakes led to his arrest and conviction on a Federal weapons charge in 2007.  This was hardly his first run in with the law.  By the time young T.I. was 14 he had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negative or positive, the cycle repeats&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I was a big fan of Full House, which among others starred Bob Saget, John Stamos and Jodie Sweetin.  I loved the idyllic representation of a non-traditional family whose comedic antics had adults and kids, alike rolling with laughter. Today, Jodie Sweetin gave birth to another child and headlines went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme ambiguity calls felony murder into question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Answers.com defines felony murder as:
An unlawful homicide that occurs in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, which is considered first degree murder by operation of this doctrine. In many modern statutes, only homicides  that occur in the course of certain specified felonies are &#8220;felony  murders.&#8221;
A Supreme Court ruling in May declared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/08/supreme-ambiguity-calls-felony-murder-into-question/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re not done, yet&#8230;not by a longshot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in The Pueblo Chieftain by Jeff Tucker announces that the new direct file law passed this spring has gone into effect. The article lists the circumstances under which a juvenile can be direct filed by a district attorney as an adult. In general, a juvenile can now be charged as an adult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/08/were-not-done-yet-not-by-a-longshot/</link>
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		<title>Parricide expert weighs in on Caudle trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Ellen Johnson, Executive Director, The Pendulum Foundation
 
John Caudle was fourteen-years-old when he killed his mother and step-father in their secluded home near Monte Vista, Colorado. The crime made national news. Parricide generally does.
There are two ways of handling a parricide case. If the child’s lucky, prosecutors and press will investigate before “creating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/08/parricide-expert-weighs-in-on-caudle-trial/</link>
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		<title>Fiscal stress is opportunity for sentence reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colorado by all accounts is under extreme fiscal stress. Indeed, a recent report by the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute found that &#8220;job losses in 2009 and 2010 indicate a full rebound[from the Great Recession in Colorado] is years away.&#8221; In short hand that means a long-term slump in the tax base that supports warehousing children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stopdirectfile.org/blog/2010/08/fiscal-stress-is-opportunity-for-sentence-reform/</link>
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		<title>Senator John Morse: A powerhouse of common sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone qualifies as a political enigma, Senate Majority Leader John Morse may be at the top of the list. A Democrat from traditionally conservative Colorado Springs, Morse made a career out of law enforcement and holds several advanced degrees including a PhD in Public Administration and an MBA. His tenure as a Sergeant in [...]]]></description>
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