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Meh, as the AP reports: President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary, according to sources with knowledge of the decision. Duncan has run the country’s third-biggest school district for the past seven years. He’s focused on improving struggling schools, closing those that fail, and getting better teachers… […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports, scooping the Denver Post yet again: The Newsweek columnist who broke the story of Barack Obama’s presidential bid is betting on Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet as the next U.S. secretary of education. “I have my money on Bennet,” Jonathan Alter writes in the soon-to-be-printed Dec. 15 issue. […]

Thanks for playing, says the Post’s Susan Greene: Job opening: President of Colorado State University. Qualifications: Anti-intellectual global- warming skeptic, not particularly influential among his peers, who has spent years working against the environment and education. Something is seriously wrong with this scenario… The National Education Association has graded him with an “F.” And the […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The battle for the soul of the Republican Party may begin in a state Senate district in rural Larimer County. Republican Sen. Steve Johnson, who was elected to the Larimer County Commission, plans to resign his Senate seat next month. State Rep. Kevin Lundberg, of Berthoud, and business owner […]

As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans, sifting through the ashes of three disastrous election cycles, are in the midst of a vigorous debate over how to win again in a state where their future looks bleak. That struggle is likely to play out over the next few months, key players say, starting with a […]

In a letter to the Fort Collins Coloradoan today, the 11% third-party spoiler from 2006 throws in for Betsy Markey: Marilyn Musgrave still doesn’t get it that voters are tired of the politics of personal destruction. She has gone over the top in personal attacks with her unfounded charges implying that Betsy Markey is a […]