By Krista Kafer krista555@msn.com “Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” Launcelot in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice was so right -- and it's even harder to keep the bodies buried in this age of mass media. They show up on the evening news, their silence demanding justice from the living. Sometimes they are heard.

The Colorado General Assembly this year proclaimed April 23-30 as Holocaust Awareness Week, and this past Monday, May 8, as Genocide Awareness Day. In House Joint Resolution 1032 they urged the state to “teach and remember the past while raising awareness of genocides present and future.”

Denver, Jan. 7 -- Backbone America Citizens Alliance, a conservative action group, started the clock yesterday on a proposed ballot issue to term-limit the Colorado Supreme Court and court of appeals. "Voters have repeatedly signaled their desire for greater accountability in public officials through term limits," said John Andrews, alliance chairman and former President of the Colordo Senate. "It's just common sense to limit the terms of these powerful judges in the same way as we already do for the executive and legislative branches of state government."

By Jeremy Schupbach jshoebox@mac.com Conservatives would be wise to be cautious in their support of the President’s nominee for Supreme Court Justice. The jury is out on whether Harriet Miers will be the strict constructionist, federalist justice in the mold of Scalia or Thomas; the kind of justice that President Bush promised to nominate. Too little is known about Miers.