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by Peter Grady – Faith Bible Baptist Church in Greeley will begin teaching a series of lessons on civil unions in light of the bible. Pastor Matt Walters will be conducting the bible study on Sunday evenings at 6 pm. The church is located at 320 35th Ave. in Greeley. In announcing [...]
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Photo & Review by Stu Wright The Beatles 1967 hit, “Getting Better” was one of the last songs created from scratch by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and was included on the album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Its production on March 23rd, 1967, had been delayed two days when Lennon mistakenly ingested [...]
Tags: AWD, control, CVT, driver, Getting Better, guidance, HID, Jimmy Nicol, Lonely Hearts Club Band, model, Ringo Starr, speed, Subaru Forester, SUV, top, tour, vehicle, Weight, Wheels, width
GREELEY, Colo. – Today in Weld County District Court, a jury convicted Rojorio Roy Naranjo of endangering public transportation, a Class 3 felony, and harassment, a Class 3 misdemeanor, for punching a city bus driver. According to police and court records, the Greeley man punched a driver on a Greeley-Evans Transportation District bus after the [...]
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Photo & Review by Stu Wright Kia Motors, based in South Korea, is the country’s second largest auto manufacturer, trailing only Hyundai, its one-third owner. As recently as 1986, Kia only produced 26 automobiles, but the total was 1.6 million last year. The two combined companies have exploded on the scene to become the world’s fourth [...]
Tags: AWD, car, Detroit Auto Show, door, driver, game, gas, GM, guidance, Hankook Optimo, Kia Motors, Kia Sportage, model, parking, road, Signal Red, South Korea, SX, TT, USB
Bill states purpose is to repeal any criminal laws related to abortionsby Matt Lacy – In a pro-abortion bill disguised as a crimes against pregnant women law, Democratic legislators passed a bill whose stated purpose is to repeal all of the state’s criminal laws relating to abortion including those that would hold doctors such [...]
Tags: abortion, care, child, Colorado, Denver, driver, end, HB, Heather, Heather Surovik, J.D, justice, KDVR, Kermit Gosnell, law, part, Personhood Colorado, planned parenthood, second, son
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Infiniti began selling cars in America two dozen years ago with a pair of initial offerings; the Q45 and the M30. As the luxury division of Nissan of Japan, they brought out the Infiniti line pretty much in response to Honda and Toyota’s introduction of their Acura and Lexus [...]
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Photo and Review by Stu Wright Horace and John Dodge started building auto parts in 1900 (for Ford and Oldsmobile), and fifteen years later went into full-fledged auto production. Dodge Brothers Corporation came to that decision when brother John became, in his own words, “tired of being carried around in Henry Ford’s vest pocket”. Dodge [...]
Tags: AWD, brother, car, control, cross, Denver, Dodge Durango, driver, guidance, Henry Ford, John, mph, path, second, show, speed, system, time, transfer, week
Photo & Review by Stu Wright Japanese manufacturer Mazda Motor Corporation has been around since 1920 and has been selling vehicles in the United States since 1970. They are noted for having sold Wankel-rotary powered cars all over the world, a design that suffered a setback during the 1973 oil crisis. It remains an option [...]
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Photos and Review by Stu Wright This past week I was presented a 2013 Lexus LS460 F Sport four-door sedan for testing while travelling in and around Phoenix, AZ on a working vacation. It was painted Starfire Pearl (white) metallic and inside it was trimmed in black perforated leather. Of course, the car seats five [...]
Tags: America, AZ, BBS, car, control, door, driver, fun, hand, highway, LED, Lexus Enform, LS, mph, Phoenix, speed, Starfire Pearl, Valley, Weight, wife
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Lexus has been in a position to offer the most popular luxury SUV since its introduction in 1998. My latest test car was the RX450h hybrid model available since 2009. It came in Stargazer Black metallic paint and featured saddle tan leather seating for five. This was a loaded RX, [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, driver, Dunlop P235, Grand Trek Touring, LCD, LED, Mark Levinson, model, movement, parking, road, RX, side, sound, Stargazer Black, SUV, system, vehicle
Photos and Review by Stu WrightOn Tuesday I received a new Lexus to test; the ES series hybrid available since early 2012. It came in “Deep Sea Mica,” blue metallic paint and it was quite attractive. I’ve previously tested six Lexus cars and SUV’s, and this ES350 looks like it may end up being my [...]
Tags: car, com, Deep Sea Mica, driver, end, ES, foot, GS, highway, mph, parking, process, road, Semi Aniline, speed, SUV, technology, Tuesday, Ultra Luxury, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright 1st The first impression of this car was good. Front visibility! Nimble and quick, I had to check the specs to see it had no turbo. Black everywhere, but that’s OK; it looks pretty. The leather front buckets are supportive, and in the back there appears to be [...]
Tags: AWD, car, control, day, driver, EPA, Friday, highway, Kersey, lot, Mazda Adaptive Bi Xenon, morning, night, OK, parking, Pirate Radio, roof, SUV, system, Toyo P225
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota, has been producing the GS series of sedans since 1993. The new 2013 model that I drove this last week represented the manufacturer’s fourth generation offering, and it came in Riviera Red Metallic with black leather seating. The GS Lexus sedan is a [...]
Tags: Adaptive Variable Suspension, AWD, car, Denver, driver, Dynamic Rear Steering, EPA, foot, GS, highway, model, mph, park, Red, Riviera Red, Ruth, speed, Sport Plus, USB, week
Photos and Review by Stu Wright The GMC Yukon XL is a version of the General Motors (GMC/Chevy) Suburban that has been around since 1935. In fact, several manufacturers offered a “suburban” for years, but GM landed an exclusive trademark on the name in 1988. For the 2007 model year, GMC rolled out the latest, [...]
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Photos & Review by Stu Wright When I was in the Air Force and living in Florida, I owned a 1968 Fiat 850 Spider roadster, a reclamation project that was pretty rusty when I bought it and had it painted. I rammed up and down the Space Coast in it, and even drove alone to [...]
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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
Photo and Review by Stu Wright This white little Swedish number was waiting for Ruth and me at DIA upon our return from Chicago last week. In Latin, the word Volvo means “I roll”, so we rolled up to Greeley, and I was forced to familiarize myself with the controls in the dark (late arrival). [...]
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Was the BUS DRIVER PAID OFF?by Craig Masters In politics – especially Presidential campaigns – events can happen fast. It is only August, two months until the election, and there may still be time for Romney to convince the conservatives he wasn’t the one behind the ‘Tuesday Surprise’ that has the newest and critical grassroots [...]
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Photos & Review by Stu Wright I don’t know if GS means “guaranteed satisfaction” on this particular sedan offered by Lexus, but it would be OK with me. That’s what the buyer gets with a car like this, which is the model I drove this past week. It’s called a GS450h, and the “h“ [...]
Tags: car, driver, EV, fun, GS, highway, Japan, LED, LS, Mark Levinson, model, mph, OK, snow, sound, SP, speed, Sport Maxx, Toyota Motor Company, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright My latest test car was a new Prius Plug-in that came in Clearwater blue metallic paint with dark gray SofTex (leather) seating. The Plug-in is available in limited quantities and only in certain areas of the United States, and was formally introduced last fall. The Prius line of [...]
Tags: America, AVID, benefit, body, car, Clearwater Blue Prius, door, driver, Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, LED, model, mph, OK, Prius Plug, right, Ruth, S33 P195, side, Toyota Prius, USB
Photos & Review by Stu Wright The word “juke” has multiple meanings, but in sports parlance, to juke is to feign or fake out, as, for instance, a running back might do. I suppose that is what Nissan had in mind when naming the mini-crossover that they introduced in 2010. I had one last week [...]
Tags: American, AWD, car, control, door, driver, Goodyear Eagle, highway, Integrated Control, Japan, month, night, North, North American, rally, RSA, side, SV, system, week
Photos & Review by Stu Wright Since Scion has chosen to feature donuts in its automobile advertising campaign, I decided to take a few of them out to Pirate radio 104.7 FM so that the radio personalities (George Gray and The Big Kahuna) and I could eat them and look over the Scion iQ, the latest [...]
Tags: car, control, CVT, DJ, door, driver, gas, George Gray, Goodyear Assurance, HD, highway, hub, lot, parking, right, side, Smart Car, suspect, The Big, week
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
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 Peter Grady – Following a report in an Israeli newspaper that the Obama administration had promised to provide Israel with high-tech weapons including bunker-busting bombs and refueling planes if Israel agreed to hold off bombing Iran after the presidential election, the White House issued a carefully worded denial saying no such deal was discussed [...]
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Options considered include jammers in automobiles by Peter Grady – The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a unanimous recommendation that the use of cell phones and all other portable electronic devices should be banned while driving. The recommendation came as a result of a deadly pileup in Missouri that killed two and injured 38 [...]
Tags: ban, cell, communication, Deborah Hersman, driver, government, Grady, life, Missouri, MP, National, National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Peter Grady, text, time, Transportation Secretary, Transportation Secretary Ray, use, year
2011 Nissan Murano By Stu Wright Nissan Motors likes to call their Murano, which is named after a region in Italy, the “Premium Crafted Crossover”. Last week I had the pleasure of driving one both in Greeley and around Denver, and would tend to agree with their characterization of this car. My first drive was [...]
Tags: ABS, Auto Review, AWD, car, City Park, CVT, daughter, Denver, DOHC, driver, GM, Greeley, Italy, model, Nissan Motors, Premium Crafted Crossover, Stu Wright, SUV, SV, XM
Staff Reports – GREELEY, Colo. – This morning in Weld County District Court, Richard Fleming of Evans (DOB 07/08/1978) was sentenced to 24 years in prison for second degree burglary, a class three felony. Fleming pled to the criminal charge on September 15, 2011. According to police reports, officers were called to Greeley [...]
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by Stu Wright Subaru automobiles are produced by the Japanese firm Fuji Heavy Industries and have been imported to America since 1968. The man responsible for bringing Subaru to our shores was Malcolm Bricklin, a man who later would found his own auto manufacturer with his name on it. The 1975 Bricklin (no, that wasn’t [...]
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3rd in a series by Mike McCune It is amusing to listen to the dire saber rattlings coming from Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s about a threatened downgrade of the U.S. dollar by those two rating agencies. They can threaten until the cows come home and it can’t possibly compare to the what [...]
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Says unsure of how widespread problem truly is, needs more resources by Jack Minor – Following Congressional testimony that 5,000 illegals may have voted in the last election, a spokesman for Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler contacted the Gazette to explain his remarks. The Gazette reported that Gessler told Congress nearly 12,000 illegal [...]
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12,000 illegals were living in Colorado, Gessler says by Jack Minor In last year’s Senate race nearly 5000 illegal aliens cast their vote in the election. The revelation comes from Colorado Secretary of State, Scott Gessler. Testifying before the House Administration Committee, Gessler said his department conducted a study comparing the state’s voter registration [...]
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Bows to demands from Mexican President by Jack Minor President Obama has promised Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, he would find a way to permit Mexican trucks to travel on US freeways and roads despite widespread domestic disapproval of such an action. Under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement signed by then President Bill [...]
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Story and photo by Jack Minor – An officer on the Evans Police Force was presented with the Officer of the Year award at the city council meeting April 5th. William Haslett, an officer with over 9 years experience in the department, was given the Officer of the Year award by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars [...]
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By Air Force Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Theiral, Colorado National Guard Public Affairs Remains of a green sedan following a fiery, one-car crash on Airport Road in Aurora, Colo., March 6, 2011. Seven Soldiers and Airmen rescued two victims from the burning car. The group was composed of Colorado National Guardsmen and Army Reservists [...]
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