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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 [...]
Tags: Bridgestone Blizzak, car, crisis, driver, emergency, Grand Touring, guidance, highway, lot, Mazda Motor Corporation, model, night, oil, roof, RX, second, speed, SUV, Velocity Red, week
Stealing opportunity from young people is not an Investment in anyone’s furture!By Craig Masters To paraphrase Generation Opportunity’s David Pasch, the message from Obama to America’s young people was as simple as: “Young people are Screwed.” The most recent Millennial Jobs Report reported by Generation Opportunity shows unemployment at nearly 14% for 18 to 29 [...]
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by Craig Maasters It is only February, and already this year the administration has announced it is allowing the transfer to China of the high technology battery systems for weapons and defense guidance on which the American taxpayers invested millions of dollars and years of research and development. In the famous words of Hillary on [...]
Tags: America, American, ATF, China, Congress, Craig, debt, February, gun, justice, lot, money, news, Obama, parking, press, store, transfer, value, year
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
by Peter Grady – District 6 announced a shocking bit of news Monday evening when it was revealed that the educational program under Superintendent Ranelle Lang has resulted in the Greeley-Evans school district being dropped to one step from the bottom of the state accreditation list. At Monday’s board meeting it was revealed [...]
Tags: board, CEO, Colorado, district, District 6, Education, Evans, evening, Greeley, help, lot, meeting, member, Ranelle Lang, Reese, Richardson, state, status, time, vote
by Jack Minor – While Congress and the media continue to vilify the NRA and similar groups calling for armed officers in public schools choosing instead to push for gun control, several states are pushing back with proposals to permit teachers to carry weapons into public schools. Following the massacre at Sandy Hook [...]
Tags: America, ban, control, gun, interview, legislation, lot, Minnesota, Oregon, Piers Morgan, place, policy, rate, shooting, South Carolina, state, Texas, Virginia, weapon, West Virginia
Photos & Review by Stu Wright When my brothers and I were growing up (there were four Wright brothers), we had a suite of little plastic cars of all makes to play with. They were quite small, perhaps 1.5 inches long, and had the names imprinted on the roof, just above the back window. We [...]
Tags: Beats Audio, car, Chrysler Corporation, company, FLAT, highway, line, Long, lot, model, Space, Space Coast, speed, testing, time, Topolino Italian, USB, Weight, Wright, Wright Bros
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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by John Whitehead “I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.”—Woody Allen ~ Gifts have been bought. Presents wrapped. Now all that remains is the giving and receiving. Oh, and the tracking, of course. Little did you know that all the while you were searching out that perfect gift, [...]
Tags: age, Allen, experience, government, information, John, lot, mining, Post, Republican, Shop, something, state, store, technology, use, Washington, Washington Post, Woody, Woody Allen
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 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
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 [...]
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Honest books Cooked booksby Craig Masters Amazon.com updates one of the season’s most interesting polls daily. But in this poll there are no pollsters. This poll tracks no demographic, no ‘likely voters,’ no registered party members or other selected group. This poll tracks shipping addresses of purchased books classified as either liberal or conservative in [...]
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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). [...]
Tags: AWD, car, City Safety, climate, DIA, driver, highway, list, lot, parking, program, roof, someone, speed, Sweden, system, USB, Volvo S60, week, word
GREELEY, September 7, 2012 – This year marks the 30th year Weld Food Bank has been working to alleviate hunger in Weld County. In that time, Weld Food Bank has distributed 88 million pounds of food to hungry residents of the county. To celebrate both the community and their generous community partners, Weld Food Bank [...]
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Huge bulllet orders create concern for manyBy Craig Masters The blogosphere has been buzzing about some very large orders for bullets placed over the past few months by the Feds. And it might seem a little scary to read that the Social Security Administration just bought 174,000 rounds of high-powered pistol ammo. Or that NOAA took [...]
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Photos & Review by Stu Wright This past week I received for review a new Nissan pickup, the Frontier 4×4 four-door crew cab. Nissan, formerly Datsun, has been in business for 98 years (since 1914), and is now the sixth largest vehicle manufacturer in the world. The company name was derived from the three founders’ [...]
Tags: Cape Canaveral, case, company, DAT, door, Frontier, highway, lot, model, Rockford Fosgate, second, side, speed, Toyota Tacoma, transfer, truck, vehicle, VQ, week, XM
Two weeks after a red car is stolen from a Colorado Springs apartment parking lot, it appears outside a hotel east of Fort Collins. Several hours of undercover surveillance pass, but there’s no sign of the thief. Larimer County sheriff’s deputies fan out, some knocking on hotel-room doors while others wait near the exit of [...]
Tags: car, Collins, Colorado, Colorado Springs, evidence, Fort, Fort Collins, Honda Accord, Larimer County, lot, model, parking, percent, Plaza Hotel, Read, sign, story, vehicle
by Jack Minor – Acknowledging there is a trust issue with the Greeley/Evans District 6 school board and the community, the board approved the official language for a November ballot question asking voters for a bond issue that would help the district obtain $29 million to replace John Evans Middle school. Prior to [...]
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Photos and Review by Stu Wright Subaru automobiles have been produced by the Japanese firm, Fuji Heavy Industries, and since 1968 they have been exported to America. The man responsible for bringing Subaru to our shores was Malcolm Bricklin, a fact that I have mentioned in earlier Subaru reviews. Bricklin’s later brainchild, a car named [...]
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by Matt Lacy – LGBT groups are praising a policy that will provide special housing for individuals who claim they are transgendered, making it the most progressive policy of its kind in the nation. Among the policy changes are permitting a person to use their preferred name and pronoun rather than the gender [...]
Tags: birth, Center, claim, Denver, Denver Sheriff, GLBT, Gray, January, LGBT, lot, Matt Lacy, month, nation, person, policy, praise, Sheriff, system, Transgender Programs Coordinator Courtney Gray, work
WELD COUNTY, CO – Today, Weld County government mourns for one of their own with the passing of long-time employee Pat Persichino. Persichino, who worked for the county for 32 years, passed away this morning peacefully at his home. Persichino, who was currently serving as the Director of the Weld County Public Works Department, [...]
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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 [...]
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by Peter Grady – President Obama has apparently been reduced to begging for funds, marking a sharp contrast to his last election. In an urgent appeal sent out to supporters Tuesday, Obama said in an e-mail, “I will be outspent.” He went on to say he was not referring to the so-called [...]
Tags: AP, campaign, Debbie Dingell, Democratic National Committee, direction, DNC, election, gift, John, lot, member, Michigan Congressman John Dingell, Mitt Romney, money, National Committee, Obama, Peter Grady, RNC, time, Tuesday
by Peter Grady – While a task force in the Southern Baptist Convention has recommended some churches be allowed to change their name to “Great Commission Baptists” to benefit churches outside of the south, many pastors are none too keen on the change. A survey conducted by LifeWay Research reveals that over half [...]
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GREELEY — The Denver Broncos will arrive in Greeley on Thursday, June 14 as part of their summer tour through Colorado which began in in Trinidad in May. As part of their tour, the team will make appearances at the Rodarte Community Center, Sports Authority and then culminate the event at the University of Northern [...]
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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
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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by Jack Minor – During a campaign stop in Ft. Lupton, the presumptive nominee, Gov. Mitt Romney launched into a series of attacks against Obama’s energy policies while noticeably avoiding any mention of social issues such as abortion or same-sex marriage. The event was held at an oil well site operated by K.P. Kaufman [...]
Tags: abortion, amendment, American, candidate, Colorado, company, credit, drilling, gas, life, lot, minority, Obama, oil, percent, Republican, sex, speech, USA, vote
Photos & Review by Stu Wright One of my favorite 60’s hits ever was so named and performed by the Lovin’ Spoonful, the pop-rock jug band of “Do You Believe in Magic” fame. It was written by band leader John Sebastian’s brother Mark and Steve Boone. The song reached number one in the Billboard 100 [...]
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by Jack minor – A pastor’s mother and her murderer were both shot and killed yesterday outside of a suburban Denver church. According to authorities the pastor’s mother was shot when she went outside the New Destiny Christian Center in Aurora just as services were ending Sunday. Police report the shooting happened after an argument between [...]
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Review & Photos by Stu Wright I drove around in a VW Tiguan this last week and experienced some vibrations (more on that later), but overall found the vehicle to be very good, so therefore the Beach Boys megahit came to mind. Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote it, and Rolling Stone [...]
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State Digital Learning Roadmap Lays Out Key Policy ReformsStaff Reports – DENVER—Colorado online education leaders have charted a way forward to pursue policies that expand students’ digital learning opportunities. The new Independence Institute publication, “The Future of Colorado Digital Learning: Crafting a Policy Roadmap for Reform,” highlights recommended changes in the areas of K-12 funding, [...]
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Said only secular service allowed by Peter Grady – The Alliance Defense Fund is helping an honor student in Alexandria, Virginia after she was denied community service credit because her volunteering was faith-based rather than secular in nature. Matt Sharp, litigation counsel with the ADF, says his client, 17-year-old Sarah Stites, is claiming discrimination because [...]
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