by Mike McCune – American market indexes reached all-time highs on April’s unemployment and jobs report today. The markets ignore corresponding reports showing service sector jobs are in retreat and factory orders showed the sharpest decline in seven months.(1) How can the facts be reconciled? The short answer is they can’t. [...]
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by John Whitehead – “A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”―Thomas Paine At a time when the courts are increasingly giving deference to the police and prioritizing security over civil liberties, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Millbrook v. United States is a glimmer of [...]
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by Mike McCune – The jobs report for February came in nicely and Wall Street cheered. Meanwhile the January jobs report was slashed by 25% from a gain of 157,000 to 119,000 and Wall Street yawned. That is because the deceit must be maintained. According to Washington, America has been in a recovery since [...]
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Give more now to get paid tomorrow!by Craig Masters This week Senator Udall sent out an email with the subject line: “Compromise isn’t a dirty word.” His message is that the Republicans need to be reprogrammed into believing that “compromise is not capitulation,” in working with the administration to solve the approaching budget crisis. Of [...]
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by Peter Grady – In the few days after President Obama’s reelection last week, the administration has wasted no time in continuing his agenda of stifling business with massive new regulations, by posting 408 new regulations over the past seven days. The regulations are available on the administrations regulations.gov website. The administration posted three [...]
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Citizens tell Obama they are pleased with his economic track record by Jack Minor – America appears to have reached a watershed moment as voters have decided that they want a continuation of president Obama’s policies of trillion dollar deficits and more Americans on social programs over private sector solutions to job creation. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Criticism continues to mount over last week’s unemployment numbers which are now below the eight percent benchmark considered a hindrance to an incumbent president’s reelection. It has long been noted that no post World War II president has ever been re-elected with unemployment above the eight percent mark. Now [...]
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I have often cited the various methods the government utilizes to keep the unemployment figure at a manageable level. Today, after the official unemployment rate fell to 7.8%, it became apparent just how blatantly political the process has become. In September the U.S. economy added just 114,000 jobs. Just to keep up with population [...]
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Money for ED Union never equals educationby Craig Masters First a moment of silence for our citizens who have fallen at the hand of Islam. Tolerance of the intolerant will never reap the expected benefits. And now on to the rest of the story. It is well documented in public budgets and analysis of student [...]
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Administration cautions against “reading too much” into dismal report by Jack Minor – Last week’s unemployment numbers revealed the dire straits facing the U.S. economy after it was revealed that almost 89 million Americans are not in the workforce, a record high. While many have noted the drop in [...]
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by Peter Grady – The state of Colorado paid several employees’ salaries up to six digits while they sat at home after they failed a background check and then eventually transferred them to another department. The move caused the state to be noted in Judicial Watch, a government watchdog agencies “Corruption Chronicles.” [...]
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by Mike McCune – School Time is Near! I can tell because of the “Back-to-School” ads everywhere. All it means is another nine-month sentence to boredom for our kids because they crtainly don’t have any need to learn in the current system. America bemoans the lack of educational progress. Every state teaches kids [...]
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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 [...]
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by Mike McCune – The disappointing March jobs’ report released on Good Friday started a new round of political bickering in Washington over the effect Barack Obama’s and Ben Bernanke’s policies have had for the past three years while the stock markets gave their first reviews of the report by slumping badly. The stench from an old, moldy, sewer [...]
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by Carol Clemans – It’s amazing to me that in this modern day we still hear statements, “She’s never worked a day in her life. She’s a stay-at-home Mom!” Having been an 8 – 5 employee as an administrative secretary in my young years (five years before marriage and five years after), I know [...]
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by Mike McCune – Liberal-funded New Economic Foundation made the case for a 21-hour work week late last week in a published report. That was issued the same day Forbes and Local Market Monitor, a research firm, released a report trying to show America was on the verge of a brilliant recovery in the housing [...]
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by Peter Grady – In what some have said is an attempt to increase his approval ratings among Latino groups, Obama’s administration will permit up to 215,000 immigrants from El Salvador to remain in America due to hardship from an earthquake in 2001. In announcing the decision, the Department of Homeland Security, in a document [...]
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by Jack Minor – The military is preparing to reduce troop strength by nearly 500,000 at a time when unemployment by young veterans is over 13 percent. Recent data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that for the last quarter of 2011, joblessness among young veterans 18-24 years old was 1 in 3; double [...]
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by Matt Lacy – The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that unemployment numbers have remained above 8 percent for 35 consecutive months. While the media and the Obama administration have touted the numbers as sign of a recovering economy, the numbers are not exactly what many people may think. Last [...]
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Staff Reports – School District 6 is seeking local businesses that can offer job shadowing and internship opportunities for high school juniors and seniors in 2012. Interested businesses are invited to send representatives to a breakfast meeting from 8—9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the District 6 Administration Building to learn more about [...]
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Council also honors employee for 25 years of service with city by Jack Minor – Two residents of Evans asked the city to consider displaying “In God We Trust” in the city council chambers. Jerry Long and Skip Carlson asked the city to consider a resolution agreeing to display the national motto in a prominent location [...]
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Congressman says department will face consequences for non-compliance by Jack Minor – The head of a House Committee said the National Labor Relations Board’s failure to comply with a subpoena raises concerns the organization is a “rogue agency.” Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena compelling [...]
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US Representative Handles Misinformation from the Scared and Ignorant One trillion dollars is being taken away from Social Security funds and being given to big corporations. Why are you supporting this? That was the kind of comment that was shouted at Congressman Gardner during his town hall format meeting held this morning at the American [...]
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By Odil Macias Halfway through summer is when Colorado is getting those high 90 degree temperatures with the heat wave enveloping all of the mid southern part of the United States. Oddly, as one travels through-out Colorado, it is easy to notice that in Greeleyand other parts of the high plains, the heat wave is [...]
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Home sales to be taxed to pay for Medicare starting two months AFTER presidential election by Jack Minor Buried in the 2400 +plus pages of the healthcare bill passed last year is a provision that could explain why Obama is not worried about the economy sinking into another recession. Speaking at a joint press [...]
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With the recent “bad cop” stories in the news, most wonder; do they hire just anybody? Not in Greeley. Police Chief Jerry Garner explained the long and tedious process consisting of several tests, screenings, and interviews one must successfully complete and rank at the very top to be considered by his department. We asked several [...]
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Three reactors actually melted down! by Jack Minor A controversial scientist who ran as a Tea Party candidate last year says media claims regarding the danger from nuclear power are not based on sound science and the US was never in danger from radiation caused by the Japanese nuclear power plant accidents. Art Robinson [...]
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