In a lively debate packed with a live studio audience of reporters and cameramen, panelists duked it out over the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed constitutional amendment titled Amendment 46 for this November's ballot.
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September 21, 2008The future of Colorado's equal opportunity programs was the source of a two-hour debate Thursday night at the University of Colorado’s law school in Boulder. Experts representing both sides of Amendment 46, a measure that would prohibit race and gender preferences in public education, hiring and contracting presented their case to an audience of about 70 people, mostly law students.
Slideshow: Civil rights initiative debated on public TV
September 9, 2008Initiative 82 fails to make ballot
A Face the State Staff Report
September 4, 2008Initiative 82, a ballot measure designed to preserve race and gender preferences in public hiring, contracting, and education, failed to make November’s ballot after coming up short by nearly 8,000 signatures, the Secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday afternoon.
Colorado affirmative action initiative garners national attention
A Face the State Staff Report
June 30, 2008While the November election is still months away, public attention is already heating up around Amendment 46, known as the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, with two debates televised over the last two days.
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