Archive for October, 2012
by Matt Lacy – In a move that has provided fuel for critics of government solutions to problems, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been telling storm victims of Hurricane Sandy who are without power they should go to the Internet for information. Politico noted that FEMA has been advising people to use [...]
Tags: call, cell, coverage, disaster, emergency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, government, Hurricane Sandy, information, Matt, Matt Lacy, Matt Thome, Media, primary, Safe, Safe American Foundation, Sandy, technology, use
by Jack Minor – District 6 Superintendent Ranelle Lang has responded to criticism that a teacher who has been teaching in district classrooms for over 25 years is making less than the new communications director by saying the amount is justified because administrators work more days than teachers. Theresa Myers, who previously worked [...]
Tags: Angie, Angie Zapata, barack obama, board, day, district, District 6, Greeley, letter, Mid Continent Regional Education Lab, paper, position, Ranelle Lang, Scott Gessler, Superintendent Ranelle Lang, teacher, Terrence Lakin, Tribune, work, year
by Craig Masters Any economic recovery will have to overcome a resistance from the population created by the welfare system that depends on the very recovery it has now begun to destroy. An ever rising percentage of the half of college graduates from the past few years who have been fortunate enough to find jobs [...]
Tags: American, assistance, collar, Congressional Research Service, Craig Masters, government, incentive, income, job, left, money, October, report, Senator Jeff Sessions, state, support, system, tax, work, year
by Craig Masters “Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.” — Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control Review “ Kudos to Matt Flener, Denver TV channel 9, for doing a better than average job of presenting a “truth test” article about an Obama ad lying [...]
Tags: American, birth, Boston, care, closure, control, day, government, Margaret, Margaret Sanger, Mitt Romney, month, Obama, Obamacare, person, planned parenthood, sex, time, today, union
by Craig Masters In May 2012 President Obama’s budget request was completely rejected by Congress, failing to receive even a single vote. That budget proposal was so bad, not even Nancy Pelosi voted it.Thank God that the children trapped in the failing school system of Washington D.C. escaped that Obama budget. The reason is because [...]
Tags: budget, campaign, capital, Congress, Craig, DCOSP, graduation, graduation rates, income, nation, Obama, percent, problem, program, reason, student, support, system, union, year
GREELEY — The Greeley Historic Preservation Commission and the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) invite all Greeley residents to an event to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the designation of the Downtown Greeley Historic District on the Greeley Historic Register (GHR) and the removal of Downtown Greeley from the Colorado Preservation, Inc. (CPI) Endangered Places List. [...]
Tags: Colorado, Colorado Preservation, Community, DDA, district, downtown, Downtown Greeley, Endangered Places, Endangered Places List, event, Greeley, Greeley Historic, Greeley Historic Register, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Office, Kress Cinema, Office, Street, tour, year
Photos & Review by Stu Wright The CT series sedan was introduced by Lexus in March of 2011. Last week I tested a 2012 model of this hybrid vehicle, a “Premium” edition with a Nebula Gray Pearl paint job. Since its introduction, I have been paying a little extra attention to the car, mostly because [...]
Tags: car, CT, Denver, EV, gas, highway, IKEA, lot, mph, Nebula Gray Pearl, night, parking, Pontiac Vibe, speed, store, Toyota Matrix, train, USB, week, Weight
by Craig Masters What in the world is that poor fellow talking about when he claims Mitt Romney shut down a thriving paper factory while making $100million? Why is this ad being released with only two weeks to the election? It could well be that the SuperPAC, PrioritiesUSA, hoped the facts that would destroy the [...]
Tags: American, Bain Capital, company, Congress, foot, interest, Marion, Mitt Romney, money, nancy pelosi, Obama, PAC, paper, reason, Smith, Smith Corona, stage, story, Ted Kennedy, time
Greeley, CO – Bells at The Salvation Army’s red kettles are set to begin ringing Thursday, November 15, signaling the official start to the holiday fundraising season for the organization. Local Army officials are appealing to Greeley residents to give a bit more than spare change this year. “It’s really a great way to celebrate [...]
Tags: assistance, CA, Christmas, CO, Daily Feeding Program, Family Emergency Services, gift, Gina Smith, Greeley, help, Local Army, organization, part, place, Salvation Army, San, Smith, support, Thursday, year
by Craig Masters Although folks in northern Colorado won’t be given a chance to vote Ed Permutter out of office, they should be aware of the impact he could have on every gun owner in Colorado and beyond. As if the financial immorality of Perlmutter and his wife was not enough, the unholy agenda for [...]
Tags: abiding citizens, America, Colorado, Constitution, control, country, Ed, Ed Perlmutter, end, gun, law, MAIG, Michael Bloomberg, money, New York, NYC, PAC, sex, support, time
I initially approached the question of 3A with an open mind. But when I read the measure’s description I made up my mind real quick. The repayment cost for this is outrageous! Worse, going into debt could have easily been avoided. The actual cost of the new school to taxpayers is $14.5 Million (Plus our [...]
Tags: BEST, card, case, credit, debt, District 6, ENTIRELY, grant, interest, Million Plus, tax, voting, Weld County, year
by Craig Masters The headline of the Christian Science Monitor caught my attention. “An Italian court sentenced scientists to jail time for not having a functioning crystal ball ahead of the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila.” I thought there had to be a mistake. But when researching the background of the story, it turns out the [...]
Tags: area, background, Bernardo De Bernardinis, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Protection, Craig, Craig Masters, CSM, De Bernardinis, Franco Boschi, information, Institute, Italy, meeting, Nicola Nosengo, paper, Science, story, time, Yet De Bernardinis
by Craig Masters Since Obama took office in 2009, fuel costs have more than doubled. We have seen the mandated increased use of ethanol and bio-fuels like E-85 and bio-diesel but still the prices at the pump continue to rise to those levels Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said we should be paying; what Europeans have [...]
Tags: America, class, coal, Congress, day, debate, Environmental Protection Agency, executive, Food, help, Jackson, money, Obama, Patricia, policy, position, rate, rest, Steven, use
by Jack Minor – While voters are being asked to approve a tax increase to build a replacement school for John Evans, a closer look at the numbers being given to voters for the cost of the project apparently do not add up, with actual costs to the taxpayer being greater than what is [...]
Tags: ballot, board, building, district, Evans, Greeley, interest, issue, John, John Evans, loan, location, lot, Moser, property, rate, side, state, tax, year
by Craig Masters Regardless of what else you may think about Obama’s policies, religious ideology, reports filled with false numbers, or unconstitutional implementation of laws, the one area where there is no doubt is that he believes the economic plan for recovery is to follow the advice of John Maynard Keynes: borrow our way out [...]
Tags: Bank, check, China, class, day, debt, government, help, idea, John, Karl Marx, loan, money, month, NASA, Obama, pay, woman, World, World Bank
WELD COUNTY, CO – Beginning October 22, 2012, the Weld County Department of Public Works will begin working on road improvements at the intersection of County Road 53 (formerly State Highway 37) and County Road 60.5 (formerly State Highway 263). The improvement site is located two and a half miles north of Kersey and three [...]
Tags: Beginning October, closure, COUNTY, County Engineer, County Road, Department, Don Dunker, left, October, Project Engineer, Public Works, Public Works Department, right, State Highway, Wayne Howard, WELD, Weld County, Weld County Public, Weld Greeley Airport, work
by Stu Wright This past week I was presented a new Chevy Equinox crossover to test. It was painted Tungsten metallic (dark bronze) with a light titanium and black leather interior. The combination resulted in a lot of compliments during the week, although personally I’m a fan of red, white or black vehicles. Chevrolet was [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Chevy Equinox, control, driver, General Motors, GMC, highway, LFX, LTZ, model, OK, Ruth, second, speed, system, USB, vehicle, week, XM
Cost of asbestos removal for John Evans $900,000 if bond issue passes by Jack Minor – Officials with School District 6 say the district had received funds for asbestos abatement for schools such as John Evans some years ago from a lawsuit, but now there is no record of the settlement or how the [...]
Tags: board, class, district, Evans, grant, Greeley, help, issue, Jack Minor, John, John Evans, lawsuit, lot, money, part, right, Scott, side, state, Wayne
by Brett Reese – I asked the editor of the Northern Colorado Gazette to reprint my letter of Feb 2011 to help us all decide whether or not to trust this administration… As easy and fun as it would be to air out the many silly antics my colleagues on the Greeley/Evans [...]
Tags: America, board, Brett Reese, district, District 6, Evans, Greeley, Greeley Evans, item, Lib Trib, member, property, Reese, report, self, system, tax, town, Tribune, year
by Peter Grady– Following a debate performance where the bipartisan consensus showed him the clear winner, crowds appearing at campaign events for Mitt Romney are surging. According to the Associated Press, as election day draws closer the crowds are getting larger as the Republican base appears to have finally warmed up to [...]
Tags: AP, Associated Press, campaign, change, debate, election, executive, Florida, issue, law, Mitt Romney, Obama, Peter Grady, primary, Republican, sex, state, story, Virginia, voting
by Peter Grady – Congressman Darrell Issa’s investigation of the events surrounding the Benghazi attack which killed a U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans appears to be playing out like a rerun of the Fast and Furious investigation. Issa, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, has been conducting a series of events into [...]
Tags: Attorney General, border, Congress, country, day, debate, end, FBI, hearing, information, investigation, issue, left, member, Obama, security, speech, State Department, use, Washington
by Peter Grady – The Florida State Board of Education is coming under fire after it passed a policy that officially declares they have lower academic expectations for black students over others. Last week, the board passed a revised strategic plan regarding their educational goals for student achievement in the state’s schools. According [...]
Tags: board, CBS, Education, fire, Florida, Grady, Left Behind, No Child, No Child Left Behind, No Child Left Behind Act, Obama, percent, Peter, Peter Grady, policy, state, State Board, student, week
by Jack Minor – The United States Supreme Court is poised to head a case at the end of this month that could essentially shut down garage sales by prohibiting the resale of used goods purchased by a person. The case involved U.S. student, Supap Kirtsaeng, who discovered that textbooks used in the college [...]
Tags: America, care, case, company, Court, end, Jack, John Wiley Sons, Market Watch, person, problem, right, sale, Spain, story, Supap Kirtsaeng, Supreme, Supreme Court, United States, United States Supreme Court
by Jack Minor – Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, drew a sharp distinction from the Republican Party platform when he said he is not aware of any abortion legislation he intends to make part of his agenda if elected president. The Des Moines Register’s Editorial Board reported that when asked about the abortion issue, [...]
Tags: abortion, Anthony, Anthony List, candidate, Court, GOP, issue, Jennifer Mason, legislation, life, Oklahoma Supreme Court, organization, part, position, Republican, sign, Supreme, Supreme Court, Susan, USA
Source says Iran could agree to temporary halt in Uranium production to help Obama reelection by Matt Lacy – A source with ties with high ranking Iranian officials has reportedly warned about a potential “October Surprise” where the Iranian government agrees to temporarily halt uranium production prior to the U.S. presidential election in order [...]
Tags: American, Congress, debate, election, government, Homeland Security, information, Iran, meeting, New York Times, Obama, Qatar, rest, show, story, Supreme, Task Force, uranium, WND, woman
Organizations says, yes we do by Jack Minor – Speaking at a campaign rally, Vice-President Joe Biden claimed Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is prohibited by law from doing abortions. Speaking at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Biden was speaking on recent statements by Mitt Romney that he would defund Planned [...]
Tags: abortion, Additionally Planned Parenthood, campaign, child, debate, Joe Biden, law, Mitt Romney, nation, organization, Paul Ryan, percent, planned parenthood, rally, right, Ryan, Vice President Joe Biden, week, Wisconsin, woman
by Jack Minor – An Army Appeals court is deciding whether the judge in the case of the accused Fort Hood shooter exceeded his authority by requiring that Maj. Nidal Hasan comply with the Army’s grooming standards by shaving his beard during his court martial. In 2009, Hasan allegedly opened fire on his [...]
Tags: Allahu Akbar, Army Appeals, authority, case, control, day, During Hasan, fire, Fort, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Army, Ft, hearing, installation, Islamic, issue, judge, Minnesota, Nidal Hasan, shooting
by Matt Lacy – State officials in Illinois have revealed that they paid over 1,100 inmates more than $2 million in unemployment benefits while they are in jail. According to the Associated Press, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said one inmate in the Cook County jail in Chicago was able to collect [...]
Tags: AP, Associated Press, Chicago, Cook County, Greg Rivera, ice, Illinois, John Cavaletto, Matt, Matt Lacy, money, online, person, process, rate, state, system, unemployment, unemployment rate, work
by Matt Lacy – Following a video exposing a salaried employee of the DNC encouraging and helping a woman commit voter fraud the DNC has decided to fire the Texas worker. The video was shot in the Houston office of Organizing for America which is an arm of [...]
Tags: ACORN, Attorney General Eric Holder, ballot, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Eric Holder, fire, Florida, help, Matt Lacy, Melanie Roussell, Project, Project Veritas, proof, staffer, Stephanie Caballero, Texas, TPM, vote, woman
Contradicts testimony State Department gave before Congress by Peter Grady – Following a statement by Joe Biden that the administration had no idea embassy officials were asking for increased security in Libya, despite testimony to the contrary, the White House is now saying Biden was only referring to himself and the President. During [...]
Tags: Ambassador Chris Stevens, campaign, Congress, debate, Department, Eric Nordstrom, idea, Joe Biden, Libya, Mitt Romney, note, Obama, Peter, Peter Grady, rally, right, security, State Department, week, White House
Interrupts candidate 82 times in 90 minutes by Peter Grady – Vice-president Joe Biden has received criticism after he was laughing while the subject of a nuclear Iran was being discussed in this week’s vice-presidential debate. During the debate in Danville, Kentucky, which was seen by an estimated 43 million viewers vice-president Joe [...]
Tags: Associated Press, barack obama, Congressman Ryan, debate, help, History Month Reception, Iran, Jay Carney, Joe, Joe Biden, Kentucky, Martha Raddatz, Paul, Paul Ryan, Peter Grady, press, RNC, Ryan, White House, Wisconsin
by Matt Lacy – A shocking undercover video reveals an Obama supporter assisting an undercover reporter commit voter fraud by voting for the president in two different states. The fraud was uncovered by an undercover reporter for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas which has captured undercover video of ACORN, a controversial national community organizing [...]
Tags: America, ballot, campaign, DNC, Eric Holder, Florida, help, man, National Committee, New York, Obama, organization, Project, Project Veritas, right, staffer, Texas, time, vote, voting
by Matt Lacy – For the second time in less than a week the government is facing scrutiny and criticism over its job reporting after a new report omitted data from a large state. On Thursday, the Labor Department touted the number of jobless claims as dropping by a sharp decline of 30,000 [...]
Tags: CEO, CNN, Department, Guy Berger, job, Labor Department, news, note, part, percent, rate, report, second, sign, state, Thursday, time, unemployment, unemployment rate, week
by Matt Lacy – Following Obama’s crushing debate in last week’s presidential debate business owners appear to now feel they can safely speak out about how the president’s policies are affecting their businesses. On Monday, David Siegel, owner of Westgate Resorts sent out an email to his employees emphasizing that while he was [...]
Tags: barack obama, Business, CEO, class, company, David Siegel, debate, Following Obama, home, idea, job, Jon Ralston, Nevada, Obama, pay, right, size, Steve, Steve Wynn, Westgate Resorts
by Matt Lacy – The Commission on Presidential Debates is saying they are not concerned about Martha Raddatz, the moderator for Thursday’s vice presidential debate having a close relationship with president Obama. The Daily Caller noted that Raddatz hosted the president at her wedding in 1991 to Julius Genachowski who went on to [...]
Tags: ABC, commission, Daily Beast, Daily Caller, debate, Federal Communications Commission, Harvard, Harvard Law, harvard law review, Julius Genachowski, Martha, Martha Raddatz, Matt Lacy, moment, Neil Patel, Obama, Peter Eyre, story, Tucker Carlson, USA
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