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Mandatory reporting laws could also affect District 6 sex education policyby Jack Minor – In what has been called the worst child sexual abuse scandal in American history, the abortion industry could soon find itself by multiple lawsuits by trial lawyers representing hundreds of thousands of victims of statutory rape. “The abortion lobby [...]
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Laments siphoning to charter schoolsRecent revelations that District 6 will be letting nearly 20 percent of their new teachers has caused the Greeley Tribune to blame part of the problem on charter schools by categorizing students as “resources” that the district is losing. At Monday’s board of education meeting, District 6 Superintendent Ranelle Lang [...]
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by Peter Grady – While the state was focusing on a series of gun control bills working their way through the legislature, a bill was quietly passed that requires school districts that take state money to reach out to the “gay” community for help in designing their sex education curriculum. The legislature recently passed [...]
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by Matt Lacy – While many politicians talk about the need to cut spending, one Senator is putting his money where his mouth is by returning money back to the government. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky has returned $600,000 to the U.S. Treasury that was given to him by the federal government to run [...]
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by Peter Grady – Nationally known academic, author and economist John Lott Jr. systematically decimated all the claims currently being used by president Obama and state lawmakers to argue for increased gun control, arguing that such laws actually decrease public safety. Lott spoke to a group of over 350 people at an event [...]
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by Jack Minor – In a last minute fiscal cliff deal that will raise taxes on over 77 percent of Americans, the definition of compromise and balance in Washington means increasing revenue by significant amounts relative to spending cuts. According to the Congressional Budget office, the last minute fiscal cliff deal reached by [...]
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by Peter Grady – The Federal Reserve has said it is expecting unemployment levels to remain high until at least late 2015, despite its plans to spend billions of dollars a month to keep interest rates low. Following its final meeting for the year, the Fed announced it would only consider interest rate [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags: BLS, campaign, DNC, drop, election, government, Jack, Jack Welch, job, Obama, part, percent, rate, reason, television, unemployment, unemployment numbers, unemployment rate, work, World War
A startling new letter from the Colorado Labor Department has revealed there are seven counties in the state where over 19 percent of the residents are “not employed.” The Colorado Observer obtained a letter through the Colorado Open Records Act that was sent out August 29 to comply with federal law. The Consolidated Farm [...]
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by Scott Rankin – Whenever I hear about a tax increase being proposed, I usually cringe. My immediate reaction is that I already pay too much in taxes, especially to the federal government. After gaining my composure, I typically ask what the tax is for, and how much it is going to cost me. In [...]
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District 6 to start similar ban in November by Peter Grady – Residents of New York will have to purchase twice as many soft drinks to get the same level of sugar now that the city has voted to officially ban large sugar-sweetened drinks. On Thursday, in a predictable vote, eight of the [...]
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by Jack Minor – The Greeley/Evans District 6 Board of Education appears to be going into a full blown campaign mode in an attempt to get voters to approve a bond issue this November. At September’s Parent Teacher Organization at Scott Elementary, board member Judy Kron made a pitch for a bond issue [...]
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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 Matt Lacy – Despite being the highest paid teachers in the nation, over 90 percent of Chicago’s teachers voted to go on strike over higher pay and other issues. CBS Chicago reported that teachers in the city earn an average of $76,000 per year, putting it ahead of New York which pays [...]
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By Craig Masters The former Governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman, was an early drop out from the 2012 Presidential campaign. He was running as a Republican. But Huntsman has a record of supporting the Obama immigration agenda. Columnist and Lawyer Phyllis Schlafly reports in her column today that Jon Huntsman wrote for the Wall Street Journal that [...]
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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 [...]
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GREELEY- Adamson Funeral & Cremation Services will be hosting a seminar sponsored by Tom Formica, Financial Advisor, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. The Social Security Seminar will be held on Tuesday August 7th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Adamson Reception Center at 2000 47th Avenue in Greeley. Mike Wooster, Certified Investment Management Analyst, and the [...]
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WALTONVILLE, Ill. — The nation’s widest drought in decades is spreading, with more than half of the continental United States in some stage of drought and most of the rest enduring abnormally dry conditions. Only in the 1930s and the 1950s has a drought covered more land, according to federal figures released Monday. So far, [...]
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by Peter Grady – The Obama administration has quietly issued a directive that effectively guts a key requirement of welfare reform that places work requirements on those receiving benefits. Fox News reported that the memo issued by the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday was intended to slip below the radar [...]
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AP touts adjusted numbers to claim claims at lowest number in years by Matt Lacy – The actual number of American applying for jobless claims increased by 69,971 from the previous week; however the Associated Press and other members of the media used adjusted numbers to claim the opposite. On Thursday, the AP [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Following the Supreme Court’s upholding of ObamaCare, negative opinions about the court has reached an all-time high. When the ruling upholding ObamaCare was upheld, a large segment of the population, including members of the media where shocked by the decision. The split decision was stunning partly because of how [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Bain Capital has issued a strong statement challenging a statement by the Obama team the Mitt Romney had either lied to the American people or committed a felony about his relationship with the company. Bob Bauer with the Obama campaign sent out the following statement: “Romney and Bain [...]
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by Jack Minor – Following a refusal by the state attorney general to review a decision by a member of his office over allowing area farmers to use wells to prevent a possible economic disaster, the county commissioners are now asking senior water right holders for assistance. After the county commissioners issued a [...]
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While others, including the Greeley Tribune may try to waffle on the issue of whether area farmers should be permitted to turn their Wells on to prevent an economic disaster and save their crops, we believe the issue is a no-brainer. Turn the wells on. While the Tribune has attempted to portray the issue [...]
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NYC soda ban mirrors District 6 policy by Matt Lacy – Following earlier reports that the city of New York was considering banning soft drinks over 12 ounces, a panel hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering banning other food items as well. At a Tuesday meeting in Queens, the New York [...]
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by Jack Minor – WELD COUNTY, CO – The Weld County Commissioners have formally requested a meeting with Governor John Hickenlooper to ask for immediate action regarding the disaster emergency declared yesterday at the Commissioners’ Board Meeting. On June 11, 2012, the Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution declaring a disaster emergency for Weld [...]
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Following the NAACP’s endorsement of “gay” marriage, the head of the Iowa and Nebraska branches of the organization has tendered his resignation over the issue. Keith Ratliff Sr.,pastor of Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, Iowa, said he made the decision to resign from the National Association for the Advancement of [...]
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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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President now changes tune, contradicts own statement by Peter Grady – Rep. Cory Gardner had some choice words for president Barack Obama over remarks he made that people in the private sector were doing just fine following news that unemployment had risen to 8.2 percent in May. Speaking at a recent press [...]
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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 [...]
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by Peter Grady – A military watchdog organization says recent reports reveal that sexual assaults and crimes have increased dramatically over the past few years in the US military. The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) recently released a policy analysis quoting statistics from several military sources that reveal, among other things, the fact [...]
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