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The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office violated two state information security policies that contributed to the accidental release of some voting system passwords before this year’s election, according to a third-party investigation released Monday morning. Denver attorney Beth Doherty Quinn found that the office violated one policy, regarding training individuals to ensure nonpublic information isn’t released, as well as another policy about reviewing data to ensure it doesn’t contain secure information before it’s publicly released. Still, the 19-page report broadly absolved Secretary of State Jena Griswold and her staff of wrongdoing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGov. Jared Polis struck down a half-dozen bills to close this year’s legislative session. But a revived proposal to fight wage theft — potentially with his backing — shows that the defeats aren’t necessarily permanent. House Majority Leader Monica Duran, a Wheat Ridge Democrat, was one of the prime sponsors of House Bill 1008.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe tobacco and convenience store industries’ attempts to stop the city of Denver from passing a ban on flavored tobacco and nicotine products are largely falling on deaf ears at city hall as the measure moves toward a final vote this month. “To me, it’s big loud voices — but I don’t see the substance,” Denver City Councilwoman Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, one of the measure’s three sponsors, said of the advertising and emails those industries have directed her way. The ban would prohibit the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products within city limits, including flavored offerings for e-cigarettes, vaporizer cartridges and nicotine pouches as well as menthol cigarettes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOn this day in 1978, Chic began a seven-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Le Freak.” The disco track was inspired by events that took place on New Year’s Eve, 1977, when the group’s co-founders, Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards, were refused entrance to Studio 54, despite being guests of Grace Jones. I Know How Much You Care: We're running out of time. everyone is entitled to my own opinion: big sad rage-baby Morning Joe melts all the way down in unhinged on-air rant. Alas, a Blog: Cartoon: Why Democrats Lost. Attention space nerds!
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSenator Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and a member of the New Jersey Senate representing Central NJ’s 16th Legislative District. He serves as Chair of the Legislative Oversight Committee, Vice-Chair of the Higher Education and Labor Committees, and sits on the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers named him as one of the 75 leading contributors to physics education in the U.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareI would much rather negotiate with a private insurer than have the government control 100% of my health care.
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