Onward and upward

Ellie Collinson, former director of the Colorado Springs-based religious watchdog Citizens Project, has taken a job for the People for the American Way in Washington, D.C.

"This is an ideal opportunity for me to put my experience from Colorado to use on behalf of a national organization working to provide positive alternatives to the initiatives of the radical right," she said in a recent press release.

Citizens Project has been a conservative Christian foil locally for more than a decade, and the People for the American Way does similar work nationally.