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POSITIVE NEWS: Denver Post Ed Board Praises Charter School Funding
Despite the rancor and vitriol in Thompson and Jeffco School Districts, it would appear that the respective boards might just be doing right by kids. At least, that's the Denver Post Editorial Board's take. An editorial appearing in this morning's paper praises two...
GOVERNMENT ISN’T THE ANSWER: Reason #34978
Republicans are always trying to show people that government isn’t the answer to every single problem, and this week they get to utter a big fat “I told you so.” A controversial program that provided IUDs to teenage girls and women didn’t get state funding during the...
NOT QUITE BRONZE: Business-Friendly Ranking Improves, But Taxes Still Too Damn High
Colorado’s business-friendly rankings have been sliding up and down the annual CNBC scorecard like tourists telemarking on I-70 in a January snowstorm. When the rankings began in 2007, we debuted at number seven and gradually made our way up to number three in 2009....
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: Teachers Union Pitch Exact Same Story Two Years Later
Below is a post we wrote in 2013 about Douglas County. The reason we are reposting it is because it is actually a story that could be written today about Jeffco Schools (and was by Nelson Garcia at 9News), which might be due to the fact that the same slingers of smut,...
WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN: Harry Reid Calls for Gun Control, Admits He is Insane
That didn’t take long. U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is demanding Congress pass new gun control laws to stop felons and the mentally ill from purchasing guns. Yes, we know that felony checks are already part of the National Instant Criminal Background Check...
WOO HOO! Colorado Scores the Court Win to Block Fracking Rules!
A federal judge in Wyoming ruled in favor of Colorado and other Western states and organizations and has suspended the new fracking rules until lawsuits against the federal government are resolved. The rules were set to take effect Wednesday. Can we get an Amen from...
THIRD TIME’S A CHARM: Rulemaking Examining Greater Local Control
First, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis tried a ballot initiative that would have granted local control to cities and counties who hoped to ban fracking. That failed after his own political party punished him again for being a baby about a fracking rig on his neighbor's...
DEMOCRATIC CHASM WIDENS: Sanders Attendance Numbers a Slap to Hillary
Political outlets have been quick to report on the enormous crowd that gathered to welcome self-described socialist (yes, literally) Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders to Colorado over the weekend. According to reports, approximately 5,000 braved the heat to see their...
WHITE FLAG? Feds Surrender the Battle to Seize Private Water Rights
The Forest Service has officially abandoned its despotic “groundwater directive” that would have allowed them to seize private water rights on property adjacent to public lands. In Colorado and throughout the West, there was much rejoicing. For now. U.S. Rep. Scott...
WALKS TO NOWHERE: Windholz Challenges State Agency on Treadmill Desks
Here's a story to get your blood pumping. If you hated bridges to nowhere, you'll really hate walks to nowhere. Apparently, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, recently spent $12,000 on treadmill work stations, raising the ire of Republican...
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