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PEAK THERAPY: Did We Hurt Your Feelings, Rep. Salazar?
We laughed when Rep. Joe Salazar (D-Rape Whistle), while discussing an online harassment bill, specifically cited the Peak calling him "Jackass Joe" because just twice in five years have we called him that. In fact, we only have mentioned Salazar in approximately 39...
WATER GRABBACK: Gardner Measure Would Protect Colorado Water from Federal Theft
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is taking on the Interior and Agriculture Departments with an amendment to the budget bill that would protect Colorado’s privately held water rights and permits from what now days appears to be constant federal overreach. The measure is needed...
TAX CUTTER: Newbie on Loveland City Council Takes Aim at Grocery Tax, and Kills It
It is always refreshing to see fearless citizens in elected positions actually use their platform to create meaningful change, even if they have to break a few eggs in doing so. One of these citizen-lawmakers is Troy Krenning of the Loveland City Council. With barely...
GIVING BACK TO SPECIAL INTERESTS: Hullinghorst Stands Up for Trial Lawyers
House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst is giving back to one of her party’s biggest donors: the trial lawyers lobby. According to the Denver Business Journal, she has drawn a line in the sand over bipartisan construction defects reform legislation, saying that unless...
BUNK SCIENCE? Yelling Fire in Beetle-Killed Forest is OK, Cause Climate Change
In a story so finely nuanced one can barely see the forest for the trees, the Denver Post’s Bruce Finley suggests that dead tree stands decimated by pine beetle infestations are not really a fire hazard. It’s more of a climate thing: “CU study finds climate, not pine...
KEEP ON HOPPING: Romanoff’s Random Resume Has a New Chapter
On Monday, Mental Health America of Colorado publicly welcomed former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff as its new CEO. If the leap from former congressional candidate to mental health leader seems a bit abrupt, you’re right. But, that’s not the only...
OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Tipton Questions FDIC on Cutting Off Bank Accounts of Gun Stores, Small Businesses
The head of the FDIC faced tough grilling today from members of a House Financial Services subcommittee including U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on a rogue policy that essentially directed banks not to deal with businesses the Obama administration found objectionable. Dubbed...
AUDIT NEEDED: Colorado Health Exchange Compliance Controls Weak, Spent Government Grants on Lip Balm
Just a week ago, the House passed a bill to audit the Colorado Health Exchange with just Rep. Paul Rosenthal the lone "no" vote . While Democrats passed the legislation, several noted that they believed that the audit would show that the exchange was performing well....
TREASON WATCH: Uh Oh, Look Who Signed Another Iran Letter
We are officially on “traitor watch,” waiting for the White House to castigate their own party for daring to assert their congressional responsibility when it comes to ratifying international agreements. When 47 Republican senators sent a letter to Iran explaining...
NOTHING TO CELEBRATE: Obamacare and Petulant Children Glorify 5th Birthday
While liberals across the country are celebrating Obamacare’s fifth birthday with tofu cake and party favors of rainbow-farting unicorns, those of us living in the real world are struggling to pay increased costs of insurance and medicine or still doing without any...
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