Colleen P. Eren, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Colleen P. Eren, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation.
Eren is a criminologist with over a decade of studying and publishing in top presses on criminal and legal reform, financial crime, student motivations. and education and is a full professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at William Paterson University and Program Director of their Criminology and Criminal Justice program.
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California Proposition 3 would amend the state constitution to recognize same-sex marriage
California Proposition 3 would let voters choose to replace current constitutional language with revised language recognizing same-sex marriage.
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Colorado Proposition KK would levy tax on firearms dealers, manufacturers, and ammunition vendors
If approved, Colorado would become the second state in the nation to have an excise tax on guns and ammunition.
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Colorado Amendment J would remove language banning same-sex marriage from state constitution
Amendment J was put on this year’s ballot so voters can choose to replace current constitutional language with language acknowledging same-sex marriage.
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Hawaii constitutional amendment would remove legislative authority to ban same-sex marriage
Currently, Article I, Section 23 of Hawaii’s Constitution states: “The legislature shall have the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples.”
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State execution secrecy laws are anti-free market and at odds with an informed democracy
State secrecy laws connected to capital punishment should be overturned in favor of increased government transparency and accountability.