Jan 2, 2019
Tonight, Carbondale’s state Rep. Bob Rankin was selected to replace embattled Republican state Sen. Randy Baumgardner, who will step down effective January 21. According to the Craig Daily Press, it took four ballots to secure Rankin’s nomination when he...
Jan 2, 2019
The folks over at public radio are ever so excited about the droves of Canadian geese invading downtown Denver, thanking global warming in part, and efforts during the 1950s to repopulate numbers that had dropped into the hundreds. They make the annual invasion of...
Jan 2, 2019
Is something better than nothing when it comes to treating opioid addiction? Not if those somethings add up to nothing, which is what some new laws taking effect Jan. 1 amount to in the war against opioid abuse. The Daily Sentinel notes that several new laws will take...
Dec 31, 2018
To say 2018 was an eventful year is an understatement. Rather than us highlighting which stories we thought were the top ten stories of the year, we looked at the stories with greatest reach and shares. While we would have identified the election-day rout, the debate...
Dec 31, 2018
U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter is still trying to spin his way out of his broken pledge to oppose Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker. PeakNation™ will recall that rather than turning the 32-year representative out to pasture, he actually helped her craft a deal to...
Dec 28, 2018
An employee for the Denver City Council got caught renting out his “affordable housing” condo for the bargain basement price of $2,300 a month. It appears he’s been doing so in violation of city rules for years, but he won’t get in trouble for it because he’s promised...