Archive for May, 2012
DENVER, COLORADO, May 29, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The archbishop-designate of Denver, the Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, has heartened the pro-life community with his long history of pro-life activism. Pope Benedict XVI selected the 61-year-old native Californian, who lived in Colorado for 25 years, as Denver’s fifth archbishop. He will follow Archbishop Charles Chaput, who [...]
Tags: Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic News Agency, Colorado, com, Denver, John Vianney Seminary, life, news, North, North Dakota, person, Pope Benedict, Read, Samuel, Sioux Falls, St. John, story, year
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Every single menu in New York City could soon be getting a major overhaul if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way. The man behind calorie counts is set to announce a new public health initiative to battle obesity, taking aim at super-sized sugary drinks. In other words, it may soon be [...]
Tags: ban, Big, Big Gulps, City, com, Dennis, Derricke Dennis, Mayor Bloomberg, mayor michael bloomberg, Michael, Michael Bloomberg, NEW, New York, New York City, NY, obesity, Read, story, time, YORK
By Stu WrightBobby Goldsboro is a well-known singer-songwriter to me, but I didn’t know he was THIS well-known. THIS man had eleven top-40 U. S. Billboard Hot 100 hits, and twelve on the country charts. The Florida native that once played guitar for Roy Orbison broke onto the scene by himself in 1964 with his [...]
Tags: Australia, AWD, Bobby Goldsboro, car, country, cross, Denver, Funny Little Clown, line, Little Things, lot, place, roof, Roy Orbison, someone, speed, system, top, week, year
GREELEY — The latest version of Greeley’s Consumer Confidence Report is published each June, as required by federal law. It is an annual summary of the quality of drinking water treated and distributed by the City of Greeley. This year’s report invites you to “Get to Know Your Water” and includes additional information about where [...]
Tags: Boyd Lake, City, Department, drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency, Greeley, Greeley Consumer Confidence Report, help, law, Poudre River, Poudre River Canyon, report, Safe, Safe Drinking Water Act, state, The City, water, Water Department, year
GREELEY- The City of Greeley Water Conservation Program is sponsoring a Garden-In-A-Box sale. Orders must be made by June 5, for pre-planned and affordable Xeriscape gardens. Greeley residents receive $25 off the list price of the xeric gardens. The City of Greeley is sponsoring the Garden-In-A-Box program offered by the Center for ReSource Conservation, [...]
Tags: care, Center, City, City of Greeley, Colorado, effort, Greeley, Greeley Water Conservation, help, June, list, organization, program, Reservoir Road, sale, The City, water, Water Conservation Program, Xeriscape Garden
Staff Reports GREELEY - Beginning Monday, June 4, the 6th Avenue bridge over the Poudre River will be closed for maintenance. The bridge will be closed for approximately ten days; weather or other factors could extend the project. The project will provide new approaches to the bridge and a new paved surface on the [...]
Tags: Avenue, Beginning Monday, control, Greeley, HWY, June, Poudre River, process, Staff Reports, Street, top, US
by Jack Minor – In what some have said is an attempt to assert more local control over local schools, the Obama administration has said individual school districts can now apply for Race to the Top funds if they are willing to subject the school board to government evaluations. Greeley/Evans District 6 board [...]
Tags: board, California Republican, Common Core State Standards, control, district, Doug Lidiak, Feds, government, graduation, graduation rates, grant, idea, issue, Obama, part, place, program, Reese, system, year
by Stu WrightDon McLean’s magnum opus (best work), “American Pie”, was written and performed in 1971, thereafter becoming the No. One U. S. hit and staying in that position for four weeks during 1972. When asked, years later, what “American Pie” means, McLean responded that it “means I never have to work again.” The song’s [...]
Tags: America, American, American Pie, Buddy Holly, car, Central, Chevy Malibu, Chevy Malibu Eco, day, February, Florida, JFK, size, something, speed, story, the Gulf, week, work, year
by Peter Grady – National retailer J. C. Penny reported a bigger than expected loss in the first quarter and the leader of her pro-family group said they believe the reason for the loss go far beyond what the secular media is claiming. The Associated Press has stated the reason for the company’s [...]
Tags: America Research Group, Associated Press, Britt Beemer, change, com, company, culture, Grady, Maggie, Media, Monica Cole, National, Peter, Peter Grady, reason, sex, text, train, value, year
by Peter Grady – The plaintiff in a key landmark case that along with Roe v. Wade helped open the door to abortion on demand in 1973 said her pregnancy was used by the legal system without her permission. In 1973, a pair of Supreme Court cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton [...]
Tags: abortion, American Family Radio Today Issues, Atlanta, Atlanta Legal Aid, caption, case, Court, Grady, hospital, job, life, mother, Oklahoma, right, Sandra Cano, Supreme, Supreme Court, system, time, width
Refusing to recognize is not the same thing as banningby Jack Minor – Evangelical Lutherans in the St. Paul, Minnesota area went on record against changing the Minnesota Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and woman. The Saint Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America overwhelmingly passed [...]
Tags: amendment, ban, ceremony, challenge, Colorado, Evangelical, Gay, legislation, Lutheran Church, man, member, Minnesota, Paul, resolution, right, something, state, transfer, union, woman
by Peter Grady – A radio talk-show host who also heads up a Minnesota-based Christian ministry states he intends to persist in fighting for justice in his defamation lawsuit against MSNBC and one of its lesbian liberal anchors. Bradlee Dean is an ordained preacher and executive director of You Can Run but You [...]
Tags: authority, Bradlee Dean, Dean, George Zimmerman, Hide, justice, lawsuit, life, ministry, Minnesota, MSNBC, Muslim, NBC, Peter Grady, problem, radio talk show, radio talk show host, Run, show, time
by Jack Minor – In what was described as ”a giant bonfire,” flames and smoke were seen over east Greeley as city firefighters fought and successfully contained a wooden pallet fire Wednesday afternoon. The fire was located at Et&t Pallets at 1500 Ash Ave. just east of the new Leprino Foods plant; and at [...]
Tags: Alarm, area, Ash Ave, building, City, fire, Greeley, house, Jack, Jack Minor, Leprino Foods, location, lot, place, property, scene, show, size, water, Wednesday
by Jack Minor – After briefly blocking Twitter services for allowing what it said was blasphemous material, the government of Pakistan has restored access to the network. The tweets in question promoted a Facebook competition to post images of the Prophet Mohammad, an offense punishable by death under Islamic law. Following the [...]
Tags: abuse, American, death, God, images, Islam, Islamic, Jesus, law, Lebanon, Mohammed, Muslim, Pakistan, Prophet Mohammad, Prophet Muhammad, reaction, Revolution Muslim, South Park, Theo Van Gogh, Van Gogh
by Jack Minor – Republican voters in all 159 Georgia counties will have the opportunity to approve granting “personhood” status to all human beings beginning at the moment of conception. The ballot question will appear on the July 31 Republican primary ballot. Georgia Right to Life president, Dan Becker ,said, “Of all the [...]
Tags: abortion, age, amendment, ballot, Constitution, Georgia, GOP, July, language, law, life, moment, nation, person, Republican, right, state, status, Supreme Court, vote
Photos and Review by Stu Wright Lexus, Toyota Motor Corporation’s luxury car division, has been producing GS series automobiles since 1993. The GS lies in the middle of the Lexus sedan lineup, between IS at the bottom and the LS series at the top. It is in the 4th [...]
Tags: AWD, car, class, control, door, driver, Dunlop Sport S100, ECO, February, GS, highway, lot, LS, mph, park, side, speed, top, Toyota Motor Corporation, year
a commentary by Craig Masters Nancy Rumfelt stepped to the podium at the Wednesday meeting of the Thompson School District Board of Education and the standing room crowd of teachers was dead quiet. The main item on the agenda was the approval of the new contract with the Thompson Education Association and Rumfelt was there [...]
Tags: agreement, board, call, control, Craig, district, Education, issue, meeting, member, opinion, pay, School, School Board, second, Tea, teacher, time, union, vote
Staff Reports – GREELEY – The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission continues the free History Brown Bag Series held on the 4th Thursday of each month from February through October, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., at the Greeley History Museum, 714 8th Street. The fourth Brown Bag session will be on Thursday, May 24th, during which [...]
Tags: August, Barbara, Betsy Kellums, Brown, Brown Bag, Classic Cars, Ghost Signs, Greeley, Greeley Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Preservation, History Brown Bag, History Brown Bag Series, Jerry Vielma, Mike, Museum, October, Staff Reports, Street, studio, Thursday
Staff Reports – GREELEY – A series of meetings has been set to gather oral histories from long time residents of neighborhoods in the University District. The next meeting will be in the Glenmere neighborhood. Staff from the Historic Preservation and Neighborhood Resource office will be recording oral histories from attendees. It will be [...]
Tags: Alles Acres August, area, conduct, Cranford June, Deb DeBoutez, district, Greeley, Historic Preservation, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Immanuel Lutheran Church Choir Room, information, Lutheran, Lutheran Church, Neighborhood, Neighborhood Date Location, Neighborhood Resource Office, Resource, TBD, University, University District
Staff Reports – WHEAT RIDGE – Lifeloc Technologies, Wheat Ridge, Colo. (OTC: LCTC), a Colorado manufacturer of professional breath alcohol testing equipment (breathalyzers) for domestic and international law enforcement, drug courts, and the transportation and healthcare industries, has entered into a Space Act Agreement with the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, for [...]
Tags: Barry Knott, benefit, CAMT, Center, Colorado, development, Gary Hunter, Kennedy Space Center, LCTC, Lifeloc Technologies, NASA, OTC, RIDGE, Space, Space Act Agreement, Staff Reports, technology, transfer, WHEAT, wheat ridge
Staff Reports – GREELEY – This week’s deal gets you two tickets to Taj Mahal this Saturday, May 19, at 7:30pm at the Union Colony Civic Center Experience Taj Mahal and his band for this onetime concert only. Describe legendary musician Taj Mahal in a single word or phrase? Impossible. You could call him [...]
Tags: Afro Caribbean, call, Caribbean, Center, Civic Center, class, country, Greeley, music, Saturday, Staff Reports, Taj Mahal, time, top, UCCC, Union Colony, Union Colony Civic Center, Union Colony Civic Center Experience Taj Mahal, week, word
Staff Reports – GREELEY – Greeley Blues Jam Sod is available for purchase! 40,000 square feet of sod from this year’s Greeley Blues Jam is for sale at $0.15 per square foot. You must purchase a minimum 300 square feet and pick it up on Sunday, June 10th between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm. [...]
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by Jack Minor – New K-12 science standards have been introduced with an eye more on depth than breadth and that has caused some to be concerned. Organizers are hopeful that most, if not all, states will adopt these standards. But they admit from the start that the issues of global-warming and evolution will [...]
Tags: Angela Schroeder, authority, bar, Bob Schaffer, CBE, charter schools, child, choice, Common Core, Common Core Standards, control, debate, government, Heritage Foundation, initiative, left, Obama, program, state, word
by Jack Minor – While the American Civil Liberties Union is well known for attempts to prevent students from voluntarily praying at graduation ceremonies, it is now gone a step further in wants to ban the words ”invocation” and “benediction” from use in public school graduation ceremonies. The ACLU has told the Lewisville [...]
Tags: ACLU, American, american civil liberties union, Angela Hildenbrand, ban, ceremony, class, district, Fred Biery, graduation, graduation speech, Institute, label, Lewisville Independent, Liberty Institute, organization, right, speech, student, use
Lovaland 9-12 Patriots work for open meetingsBy Craig Masters The following e-mail was distributed by the Loveland 9-12. It was titled, “Letter from Nancy Rumfelt regarding tonight’s meeting.” It is reprinted here to illustrate two very important points: 1) there are still people willing to step up and speak out against “closed door” meetings where [...]
Tags: board, BOE, district, Education, help, Loveland, meeting, morning, Nancy, pay, Robert, School, School Board, show, teacher, Thompson School Board, Thompson School District, time, union, year
by Jack Minor – DISH Network, an Englewood based leading pay-TV provider, is now offering more choices in family-friendly entertainment by adding G-Movies, the new faith friendly streaming movie service from GMC TV, to its on-demand programming lineup. DISH subscribers with the exclusive “heartland package”or “Blockbuster @Home” service can stream inspirational titles from G [...]
Tags: TV
by Carol Clemans – This week President Obama spoke on television that he believes that homosexual couples should be allowed to be married with all the rights that a husband and wife receive through marriage – (not exact quote). The President was forced to face this issue because Vice Pres. Biden stated his support [...]
Tags: abuse, Bible, Carol, Carol Clemans, Christian, Christian Life Coach, DESIGN, God, issue, man, Marriage, Mr. President, nation, NLT, org, right, The President, week, www
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by Jack Minor – In an example how “the word of God is not bound” a Korean-American NGO that launches Bibles and gospel flyers into North Korea 70-80 times a year has said it now has proof the balloons are in fact reaching their target. By using GPS tracking devices overlaid onto Google maps, [...]
Tags: area, Bible, control, country, government, GPS, Korea, list, movement, negotiations, North, North Korea, North Korean, press, proof, right, speech, television, USA, year
Photos and Review by Stu Wright This last week I received my fourth Subaru to test, a 2012 Outback with the six-cylinder engine. It was the 3.6R “Limited” model in Ice Silver metallic with black leather interior. This car is made by Fuji Heavy Industries, a Japanese firm, in Lafayette, Indiana. The Limited is the [...]
Tags: body, car, Denver, DOHC, driver, Fuji Heavy Industries, Heavy, highway, Ice Silver, John Elway, Legacy, Legacy Outback, road, second, side, Subaru Legacy, Subaru Outback, SUV, top, USB
by Jack Minor – While Mitt Romney may be the presumptive GOP nominee for president, he still has credibility issues with evangelical and conservative voters and a statement of over the weekend did nothing to help assuage their concerns. Romney has stated publicly on multiple occasions that he supports traditional marriage between a man and a [...]
Tags: AFTAH, decision, executive, father, Fox News, help, legislation, man, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, mother, Neil Cavuto, person, Peter LaBarbera, problem, sex, state, support, Supreme, woman
by Matt Lacy – A measure has been introduced in Congress that would help stop the problem of school personnel accused of sexual misconduct from simply being transferred from one district to another. Steve Gunn with the Education Action Group Foundation says all too often school districts throughout the country simply cover up sexual [...]
Tags: 12 year old, case, Congress, district, help, Jeremy Bell Act, judge, legislation, Matt Lacy, Michael, Michael Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania, problem, process, Steve, teacher, time, union, West Virginia, year
by Matt Lacy – Private meetings, political chicanery and the resurrection of a dead bill under a different name were all part of the tactics employed by the Delaware state legislature who were in fear of a single sheriff who was simply doing what his constitutional duties allowed. On a 36-2 vote the Delaware [...]
Tags: Attorney, Attorney General, authority, call, caption, child, Christopher, Constitution, Court, e mail, HB, issue, Jeff Christopher, law, legislation, mail, officer, Sheriff, state, Sussex County
by Matt Lacy – Following president Obama’s statement that he supports homosexual marriage, leaders from two of the nation’s largest religious denominations have denounced the endorsement. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the head of the US conference of Catholic Bishops said the president’s remarks, “undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our [...]
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