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YOUR LIABILITIES ARE SHOWING: Ratings Agency Warns PERA to Pull It Together
A report released last Thursday by ratings agency Moody's showed what the quant jocks at the Peak have been saying for some time - Colorado's Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) is overburdened with unfunded liabilities. From the Grand Junction Sentinel:...
BENNET’S FOLLY: Health Policies Cancelled for 190,000 to Avoid Election-Year Politics
Without former Senator Udall’s staff to kick her around, Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar isn’t keeping secret her sovereign decision to kick 190,000 folks off their health plans this year. This is all part of President Obama’s propaganda pledge that if you...
GOP ELECTIONS RESULTS: House, Wilburn and Meek In; Call, Baisley, and Fore Out
UPDATE: Newly-elected GOP Chairman Steve House responded to rumors about hiring former State Sen. Ted Harvey as executive director: "Today was a great day and there will be more to come on how and what we will do going forward. Rumors about anyone having a job with...
BEER GOGGLES: Left Turns Blind Eye to Brewers’ Offensive Hiring Techniques as Brewer Tows Party Line
Apparently, pseudo-job discrimination based on political ideology is praise-worthy as long as the company is towing the Democratic Party line. At least, that's the message the White House sent when it held up New Belgium Brewery as a thought leader on paid family...
ANNOYING GREENIES: One Ban at a Time
Now here’s a ban we can support, the governor of Florida has reportedly forbidden staffers from using the terms global warming and climate change. Go team! Florida is just the latest in a string of states to climb aboard the Freedom-From-Trendy-Outrages bandwagon that...
ALL THE SAME: CEA Chief Tells Legislature All Teachers Do the Same Job
In a pointed exchange on Wednesday in a House Education Committee meeting between State Rep. Paul Lundeen and the President of the Colorado Education Association (read: teachers union), Kerrie Dallman, the Union Agitator in Chief made an interesting revelation - all...
GARDNER’S ZINGER: Nails NASA For Shifting Focus From Space to Dirt
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner nailed NASA’s administrator during a budget hearing Thursday for allowing the space agency to float away from its central focus -- outer space. NASA is asking Congress to increase its budget 40 percent for Earth science spending, which had some...
THE NEXT VA SCANDAL: Civil Servants Playing Games with Backlog
There’s a lot of news this week about the VA, but this item sent our Bunk-O-Meter alarm screeching like a wounded banshee. The Veterans Affairs Department asserts that the backlog of 235,700 financial and medical assistance claims will be eliminated by the end of the...
FAILING UP? Underwater Sen. Bennet Now a Presidential Contender
Two top media outlets, Bloomberg and The New York Times, today are suggesting that perhaps Democratic U.S. Senator Michael Bennet could be a presidential contender in 2016. Hang on, let us catch our breath. We're still laughing. OK. The New York Times is taking a...
BECAUSE POLITICS: House Dems Flex Their Hypocrisy Muscle, Poised to Kill Mag Limit Repeal
We all remember Democrat’s outrage over civil unions legislation that died during the 2012 special session. Civil unions would have passed on the House floor, and the Democrats’ line at the time was that the GOP should allow it a debate and vote before the full...