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Mike Krause
Mike Krause is Director of Operations at the Independence Institute. He also runs the Justice Policy Initiative, the Independence Institute's criminal and civil justice policy center. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and served in the United States Coast Guard from 1987-1991, which included search and rescue operations in the North Atlantic Ocean and joint agency drug and immigration patrols in the Caribbean Sea.
He originally came to Colorado to be a ski bum in Steamboat Springs, but they made him a supervisor in the racing department, actually requiring him to work a 40-hour week.
His work for the Independence Institute appears regularly in numerous Colorado
newspapers, including the Denver Daily News, Denver Post, Denver
Business Journal, Rocky Mountain News, Colorado Springs Business
Journal, Colorado Springs Gazette, Aurora Sentinel, Boulder
Weekly, Gunnison Country Times, Wheat-Ridge Transcript,
Golden Transcript, Longmont Daily-Times Call, Lakewood
Sentinel, Salida Mountain Mail, Pueblo Chieftain, Summit
Daily, Greeley Tribune, Commerce City Beacon, Glenwood
Springs Independent and The Cheyenne Wells Range Ledger.
His radio and television appearances include "Independent Thinking" (Channel 12, KBDI, Denver), "Colorado Inside Out Live" (Channel 12, KBDI, Denver), the "Jon Caldara Show" (KOA 850, Denver) the "Peter Boyles Show" (KHOW 630, Denver), the "Amy Oliver Show" (KFKA 1310, Greeley/Ft. Collins) and "Metroside" (KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder and 1390 AM, Denver).
He has written nationally for National Review Online, both Reason magazine and Reason Online, and American Outlook magazine.
His work on America's drug war policies in Latin America has been translated into Spanish by the Agencia de Noticias Nueva Colombia (News Agency New Colombia), into Portuguese by the Brazilian daily newspaper Hora do Povo and into Italian for the journal L'opinione.
He is a contributor to several books, including the limited edition Liberty in Media Awards, Volume 2 (RP/LIMA, 2003), The New Prohibition, Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War (Accurate Press, 2004), Homeland Security, At Issue series (Greenhaven Press, 2004) and the recent monograph, The Drug War Against Civil Liberty and Human Rights, published world-wide by the Liberale Institute of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Potsdam, Germany.
Articles by Mike Krause Issue Backgrounder
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Breaking Ranks (IB-2006-G) [PDF]
Paying for a Statewide Methamphetamine Strategy is also an Opportunity to Declare Drug War Independence from Washington, D.C. | 11-02-2006 | | Colorado Needs Comprehensive Protection for Government Compelled Data (IB-2006-B) [PDF] | 04-17-2006 | H.R. 1528: A Threat to Gun Owners, Families, and Privacy [PDF]
A Threat to Gun Owners, Families, and Privacy | 07-09-2005 | Issue Paper
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When Policies Go to Pot (IP-10-2005) [PDF]
Colorado Should Take Back Control of Intra-state Drug War Priorities. | 12-01-2005 | How Many Laws Did You Break This Week? (IP-9-2005) [PDF]
In April 2005 -- after a month-long investigation -- a police SWAT team raided a small stakes poker game in a Palmer Lake, Colorado restaurant. | 09-12-2005 | Getting Smart on Crime: Time to Reform Colorado's Drug Offense Sentencing Policies (IP-1-2005) [PDF]
Colorado is in the midst of a prison population crisis. Overburdened state prisons and a demand for yet more new prison beds are in conflict with a state budget dilemma. | 02-09-2005 | The Expanding Surveillance State: Why Colorado Should Scrap the Plan to Map Every Driver's Face and Should Ban Facial Recognition in Public Places (IP-8-2001) [PDF]
This Spring, the Colorado legislature approved, and the governor signed, legislation to allow the Division of Motor Vehicles to use biometric technology to facially map or "face print" Colorado license applicants. | 11-15-2001 | Opinion Editorial
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Will Colorado Republicans Show Fiscal Leadership On Prison Spending?
Republicans often claim to be the party of fiscal conservatism and limited government. But Republican lawmakers in Colorado show little enthusiasm for applying those principles... | 12-10-2009 | Colorado's War on Drugs a Fiscal Nightmare
The cost to taxpayers of Colorado's failed experiment in the mass incarceration of drug offenders has simply become unsustainable. | 10-08-2009 | Downzoning Northwest Denver is Contrary to Sustainable Development Goals
The new code should empower property owners at least as much as it empowers planners, regulators and politicians. We aren't there yet. | 08-04-2009 | New Denver Zoning Code Should OK Granny Flats in Berkeley
Don’t let city planners and politicians deny you the ability and freedom to develop your property in a way that suits your own tastes and lifestyle choices. | 07-20-2009 | Prison Budget: Sentencing Laws Drive State Spending
So the current opportunity cost of Colorado’s extreme prison spending spree is a quarter billion dollars that could have been spent on health care and higher education. | 06-28-2009 | DNA Bill's Flawed Fee Structure
Your barber shouldn't charge you for an oil change, but if he does, you should encourage him to run for the Colorado Senate. | 05-04-2009 | Criminal sentencing bill is flawed, but debate over sentencing is long overdue
Colorado lawmakers have ignored out of control prison spending for far too long. | 04-21-2009 | Hold Onto Your Assets
Hopefully lawmakers will think twice before returning Colorado to legalized government piracy. | 03-02-2009 | Calling in the Guard: State Dems Get in Touch With Their Inner Drug-Warrior
In Colorado, the “war on drugs” has gone from metaphor to actual military action. | 02-12-2009 | U.S. Should Support Taiwan's Democracy
What is President Obama waiting for? | 02-09-2009 | Reducing Recidivism and Lowering Corrections Costs
Recidivism is also a major factor in the decades worth of massive growth in the state’s prison population that taxpayers are obligated to pay for. | 01-13-2009 | Smoke 'em if You Got 'em, It's for the Children
If any busy-bodies want to give you a hard time about lighting up, just remind them you are doing it for the children. | 01-06-2009 | Obama and Taiwan: "More of the Same?"
Yet missing from the very short list of co-sponsors for the resolution was Senator Barack Obama. | 09-22-2008 | Tibet Isn't the Only Captive Nation in Beijing's Empire
Actually, if anyone is "owed" anything, it is the Tibetans, the Uighers and the Mongolians. | 06-02-2008 | Both Ways Beijing
China Wants its Olympics, but Doesn't Want its Thuggery Examined | 05-14-2008 | Is Taiwan next for China's thuggery?
What is happening in Tibet makes clear that China is more than willing to back up its threats of violence with the real thing. | 04-07-2008 | Misery: China’s biggest export
While Communist China is well qualified to host an international gathering of thugs and tyrants, the regime’s moral legitimacy as host of the Olympics is another matter entirely. | 03-04-2008 | Taiwan: China-free Zone
In his second inaugural address, President Bush told the nations of the world, 'When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.' | 01-14-2008 | The U.S. Should Support Taiwan’s Bid For United Nations Membership, Even If It Does Annoy China
The United States should defy China and support Taiwan’s bid for membership in the United Nations. | 11-04-2007 | How will Colorado pay for the coming prison boom?
Colorado Taxpayers may soon have to decide how much their taxes will go up or what government services they will give up to address the growing prison population. | 08-06-2007 | Real problems with Real ID
Colorado should follow Montana’s lead, and say no to the Real ID Act, forcing Congress to do its own dirty work. | 05-28-2007 | The road to Darfur runs through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
China complicit in genocide in Sudan | 05-04-2007 | Seat belt laws trivialize law enforcement
The proposed seat belt law is a finger-wagging nanny state edict,
with high potential to distract police from their public safety mission in
favor of trivial enforcement of unpopular personal behavior. | 02-23-2007 | Prison Spending in Colorado: Anatomy of a Fiscal Train-Wreck
Colorado faces a prison spending meltdown that will likely require Democrat Legislature to put aside any new spending plans in order to pay for the necessary and expensive long-term prison expansion.
Short: Rising prison costs handcuff legislators. | 01-11-2007 | Social Security Numbers: Original Intent or Identity Theft?
Feds make it easy to steal Social Security Numbers | 12-22-2006 | Real ID: Intrusive, Unnecessary, Costly
Homeland Security will soon be in charge at the DMV. | 12-14-2006 | Do drug warriors really think parents matter?
Breaking news! Federal drug warriors discover that parents matter... kind of. | 11-20-2006 | Amendment 44: Is treating grown-ups like children really a sound drug policy?
Mike Krause Questions the strategy of opponents to Amendment 44. | 11-02-2006 | Unnecessary and Intrusive: REAL ID is a real threat to Colorado
To help Force Congress do its own dirty work, the Colorado Legislature should refuse to implement the REAL ID Act. | 10-20-2006 | Doing it for The Children: The drug war against local control and parental responsibility
There may soon come a time when conservatives ask how national drug policy became a proxy war on parental rights. | 09-28-2006 | Breaking Ranks:
A state-wide meth strategy requires a withdrawal from the war on marijuana | 07-21-2006 | Federalism up in smoke
Colorado voters approved the usage of marijuana for
medicinal purpose. | 06-22-2006 | Radical departure from traditional drug war orthodoxy
House Bill 1145, signed into law last month, creates but does not fund a state methamphetamine task force in Colorado. | 06-18-2006 | Pot enforcement a waste of resources
Our national addiction to marijuana prohibition leads to astonishing numbers of marijuana arrests. | 05-07-2006 | Stop being tax chumps -- switch to consumption-based taxation
Are you getting a tax refund this year? Actually, nobody is, since a refund is what you get when a product or service does not work as promised. | 04-26-2006 | Throwing Away Money
After several decades of an ambitious incarceration campaign, Colorado's booming prison population has run headlong into the fact that the state can spend only so much on corrections. | 04-14-2006 | Colorado’s silly seat belt bill
In the book “Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything,” author James V. DeLong writes, “When the government criminalizes almost everything, it also trivializes the very concept of criminality.” | 04-02-2006 | Drug War Trumps Port Safety
The top objective of the U.S. Coast Guard's anti-terrorism strategy is to protect what's called the "U.S. Maritime Domain," including American ports. | 03-12-2006 | | "Just Say No!" To federal drug money targeting your kids | 02-16-2006 | | Colorado's Prison Spending Meltdown | 01-18-2006 | Prison costs are running out of control
Colorado taxpayers spend around $100 million a year to incarcerate drug offenders in state prisons. So it's worth asking why any kind of sentencing reform, which could save millions of dollars in prison spending, has been off the table in the budget debates of the last few years. | 01-01-2006 | | Got Data? Then Get a Law to Protect It! | 12-21-2005 | | Wasted Resources Running High | 11-17-2005 | | WHEN POLICY GOES TO POT: Its time to change Colorados strategy in the war on drugs | 10-19-2005 | | Who Will Defend Property Rights in Colorado? | 10-05-2005 | | New Crimes Mean More Criminals: Colorado has plenty of both already | 07-21-2005 | | States Rights Up in Smoke | 07-02-2005 | | How many laws did you break this week? | 06-24-2005 | | Federal Drivers's Licenses: Can Colorado Say "NO"? | 06-08-2005 | | Can Colorado Say No to the Nanny-State | 06-01-2005 | | Analyze This: Re-Modeling Drug Policy | 03-31-2005 | | Take the F Word Out | 03-25-2005 | | Concentrate on the Big Dealers | 03-16-2005 | | 4000 is too many | 01-12-2005 | | Grass Roots Case | 12-09-2004 | | Smoking is Cool Again, Thanks to Amendment 35 | 11-05-2004 | | Peter Coors is Right | 08-18-2004 | | Take Click It or Ticket and Stick It | 06-09-2004 | | Latest Target for DEA's War on Drugs: Your Doctor | 04-14-2004 | | Social In-Security Numbers... | 02-18-2004 | | Big Brothers Database | 12-22-2003 | | Uncle Sam's Club | 10-05-2003 | | Quintana Roo, Mexico? | 08-07-2003 | PRI, Again? A comeback try in Mexico.
The question that history has posed in Mexico since 1968 [the year
hundreds of students were slaughtered by the military in a Mexico City
public square] not only consists in whether the state will be able to
rule without the PRI but also in whether we Mexicans will let ourselves
be ruled without a PRI | 06-27-2003 | | Leftist Lies | 05-22-2003 | How the Mexican Media is Portraying the War in Iraq
During a civil but decidedly lopsided discussion with several Mexican
nationals about the war in Iraq, I was told, "Your view is distorted because you only get the CNN version of the war in the United States. | 04-09-2003 | | Anti-Anti-Americanism | 03-26-2003 | | Measures Against ID Thievery | 01-29-2003 | | Argentina Savings | 01-02-2003 | | Of Practices Behind Promises... | 11-24-2002 | | Mayan Nights... | 10-23-2002 | | It's not about control, is it? | 07-24-2002 | | Just Say No to National I.D. Cards | 07-12-2002 | | National ID Card Proposal Still Stinks | 05-14-2002 | | Happy Chump Tax Day, Chump! | 04-10-2002 | | "We Don't Need No Stinkin' National ID Card..." | 03-07-2002 | | Is Face Recognition Just High-Tech Snake Oil? | 01-10-2002 | | Stand Firm For the Freedoms Past Veterans Have Already Won | 11-14-2001 | | Why Ilios Matters | 07-26-2001 | | Denver's New Welfare Hotel | 06-06-2001 | | Boeing, Boeing, Gone | 05-18-2001 | | Medical Marijuana is a State's Rights Issue | 05-01-2001 | | Good Riddance to Dropout Bill | 02-28-2001 | | Subsidized growth or subsidized housing:Whats it going to be, Denver? | 01-03-2001 | | Drug War Casualties | 11-15-2000 | | Spoiled Rotten Rioters | 10-04-2000 | | Carnivore: The Government Wants Your E-Mail | 08-16-2000 | | Making Booksellers into Drug Felons | 06-28-2000 | | Secret Tax on Your Telephone | 05-02-2000 | | The Public Housing Mess in Denver | 03-28-2000 | | State Government Sells Your Private Information | 01-19-2000 | | Why the Government Doesnt Belong in People's Sex Lives, Even Teenagers' | 11-12-1999 | | Postal Service Rules Threaten Privacy | 07-23-1999 | |
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