Group owes over $1.7 million in back rent Landing gear from a 9/11 aircraft that crashed through property at 51 Park Place by Jack Minor – Utility provider Con Edison, has asked a New York judge to grant them permission to evict the developer of a mosque at ground zero over $1.7 million in [...]
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by Craig Masters I was doing background research for a completely different article when I happened to open the web site of the National Education Association. I was caught up reading one article after another. Suddenly I found myself writing this open letter about an email from Senator Bennet. The web site of the National Education [...]
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Mr. Bennet, Please permit an up/down vote on the Cut, Cap, and Balance plan that passed the House of Representatives. I would like to know where you stand on really doing something about the debt crisis that past and present Congresses and Administrations have created. In your op-ed, posted in the Denver Post on July [...]
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Craig Masters Get ready Greeley, another influx of immigrants is coming. June 30 marked the pull-out date for hundreds of National Guard troops that were deployed along the U.S. border with Mexico. They had been deployed to assist the seriously understaffed Border Patrol after much distracting news from the border regions. Pleas to Obama to continue assistance [...]
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Queer soldiers pose additional security risks; affect moraleBy Jack Minor While the lame-duck session of Congress persists in attempts to repeal a Revolutionary War era ban on homosexuals serving in the military, some have used the Wikileaks controversy as proof the ban should be upheld. Supporters of repealing the ban claim they wish to overturn [...]
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Story and photo By Jack Minor Following an historic election, politicians and pundits are divided over what the results mean and what it says about the electorate. Columnist Bill Press said the American voters are “dumb” for voting for Republicans in Tuesday’s election. In the column titled “The American People: Dumb, dumb, dumb” Press says [...]
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by Christy Rodriquez Race is a non issue when it comes to federal spending, according to Ken Buck, Republican Senatorial Candidate. “What I’m finding when I’m reaching out to voters, whether they’re Hispanic, Jewish, Veteran… is the concerns are the same as every American; jobs, family values, spending and strong defense.” Buck’s Campaign launched a, [...]
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Story and Photo By Jack Minor At a recent forum on agriculture Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway had some sharp words for a Senate staffer asking her boss to lay off local community banks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and staffers from both Sen. Michael Bennet’s office and Rep Betsy Markey’s office hosted a forum [...]
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Story by Jack Minor Greeley residents have strong feelings regarding the proposed mosque at Ground Zero in New York, contradicting the Colorado politician who said Coloradoans don’t care about this issue. At a recent town hall meeting in Greeley, Sen. Michael Bennet in response to a question asking if there was a disconnect between local [...]
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Story and Photos By Jack Minor Susan Dagget, wife of Sen. Michael Bennet, came to Greeley to collect school supplies for needy children and sought advice on unifying the Party following a difficult primary season. On Aug. 25, Dagget came to the Weld County Democrats office to meet with local party members and collect their [...]
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Photo and Story By Jack Minor Michael Bennet, D-Colo,at a town hall meeting in Greeley last Saturday, Aug 21 said we had nothing to show for the debt incurred by the stimulus package and other expenditures calling the recession the worst since the Great Depression. The meeting began with former Greeley Mayor Tom Selders introducing Bennet [...]
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by Thayne Doak As Coloradoans awake on the morning after an at times bitterly contested primary between establishment candidates and grassroots upstarts, the score appears to be: establishment-1, grassroots-2. In what seemed to be almost an implausible scenario just a couple of months ago gubernatorial candidate, and virtual unknown Dan Maes, has appeared to eke [...]
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Is Michael Bennet tired of partisan politics?By Mike Bauman In interviews following last week’s primary, incumbent Senator Michael Bennet told various news outlets that he was tired of business as usual and partisan politics in Washington, DC. His voting record seems to indicate a different story. Bennet’s voting history shows him to toe the party [...]
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Since 2009 there was no doubting that the tea party movement was a force that knew how to make their voice heard. In September members from around the nation held a rally in Washington D.C. that many claim had over a million participants with others saying the crowds were closer to two million. They have [...]
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By: Mike Bauman. By Mike Bauman In recent television commercials, the two Democratic Senate candidates have been exchanging barbs over who accepted funding from Political Action Committees or PACs. According to Webster’s Dictionary, a Political Action Committee is an organization representing the interests of a corporation, labor union, trade association, etc. that solicits and collects [...]
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