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SCANDAL DE JOUR: VA Employees Looking Out for Themselves
Holding the VA accountable is an exercise in futility, but U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman appears to have an endless supply of perseverance. The latest scandal involves two top VA officials who forced workers to take job transfers in order to steal those jobs for themselves –...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING: You Worked Fewer Hours to Earn that Turkey
While some blogs dedicate time to offering snappy comebacks for your annoyingly liberal cousin from Boulder, we thought Thanksgiving should actually be a time of thanks. And, frankly, we assume you've been working on those witticisms all year round. Among the things...
ELECTION SPIN: Hillary and Bennet’s Gitmo Waffles
During her campaign visit to Colorado this week, presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton told KCNC’s Shaun Boyd she had not made up her mind on whether President Obama should bypass Congress to move Gitmo terrorists to the U.S. “I have, as Secretary of State, supported...
WHERE’S BENNET? Veep Favorite a No Show for Hillary at Manual High School
Of all the high schools in all the world, Hillary Clinton chose to make a campaign appearance in Colorado yesterday at the Manual High School, and no, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was not with her. We can’t decide whether her choice of high schools was a slap in Bennet’s...
THE SKY IS FAILING! Finley Warns of New Pollution Blocking Starlight
The latest warning of a looming environmental disaster by the Denver Post’s Bruce Finley is that the sky is falling. More specifically, he says the sky is failing to star because of so-called “light pollution” across Colorado’s Front Range. Finley cites light-control...
DOG ATE HER HOMEWORK? Hillary Clinton Tries to Polish Image, Shoots Self in Foot
After seeing her Colorado poll numbers, it's not shocking that she got her ass on a plane to Denver. But, if Clinton was hoping to polish Colorado's perception of her, coming to Colorado only to stump for gun control and penalizing the oil and gas industry shows a...
BENNET WATCH DAY 11: Everyone Is Still Waiting, Senator
Yesterday, we reported that it had been a full ten days since the attacks in Paris and, yet, embattled U.S. Senator Michael Bennet still hadn't made any decision on what to do about security concerns over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, and...
LEGISLATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Craft Brewers’ Massive Obamacare Hangover
Did you know beer is making you fat? Of course you did. They don't call it a beer belly for nothing. Nonetheless, a little-known tenet in Obamacare legislation is threatening to save you from your fat, drunken ways - and give Colorado's craft beer makers a major...
DEMOCRATIC SCHISM: Delegation Divided over Syrian Refugees
The debate over allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. and Colorado has caused a bizarre rift among Democrats. On one side, there’s Gov. Hickenlooper, one of only a few governors measuring curtains for the refugees. And also U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who voted against...
EPA VICTORY? San Juan Begins Talks to Welcome Superfund
San Juan and Silverton officials rebuffed advances by the EPA for decades to list numerous mines as Superfunds, but in light of the August spill caused by the federal agency, the county and town voted Monday night to begin negotiations to make it so. "… Silverton...