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Photo & Review by Stu Wright Volvo builds the XC60 in Ghent, Belgium, and the car has been the company’s best seller since its introduction in 2008. It is a compact crossover SUV that was unveiled at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. I tested one this past week both in Denver and [...]
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by Michael McCune – There is some amazement among Wall Street observers about how well the market is doing in the face of so many stern headwinds. Their continued amazement is either a sign of stupidity or culpability. These analysts say there can be no major bear market and that the market has [...]
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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, [...]
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by Craig Masters Every trial attorney knows how important the art of questioning is to getting the answers they want the jury to hear. It is the height of gamesmanship in the court room. An example is the popular question: “Mr Witness, have you quit beating your wife”? If Mr. Witness never beat his wife, [...]
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Trying to add new groups to the New GOPby Craig Masters The question of just how to add to, and eventually replace, the aging voter base of the republican party in Colorado was the focus of much of the discussion at a meeting hosted by the Longmont Republican Women’s group Sunday evening. According to the [...]
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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 [...]
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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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The United Nations just issued numbers on food inflation that contradicts Federal Reserve Chairman Ben “BS” Bernanke’s assessments. “Hunger Games” may not be just a movie much longer. The UN food agency reported Friday that food prices are “rising again.” Old BS just began QE3 precisely because there was no movement in the economy and a little inflation couldn’t [...]
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Why is the NEA teaching races to stay different?by Craig Masters The NEA is ‘teaching’ from the race card Jesse Jackson was a popular chorus leader at least week’s Chicago Teachers’ Union rally. The video available online shows a crowd of people (teachers?) being led in meaningless, senseless chants. Jackson then reverts to his worn [...]
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by Craig Masters No surprise that ‘Berkely.edu’ would spread the wrong ‘facts’ In the “war-torn” city of Chicago, Illinois, hundreds of Americans have been killed by armed criminals this year. But Barack Obama and the Democratic platform repeated, almost verbatim, a plank from their 2008 platform that read, “We believe that the right to own [...]
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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’ [...]
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by Jack Minor – The CEO of Papa John’s pizza unwittingly waded into the “culture wars” for saying on a conference call that Obamacare’s mandates would affect the company’s cost of a pizza. A new survey reveals that nearly two-thirds of employers expect to see a cost in their health plans when Obamacare [...]
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EVANS- The Evans Police Department was able to successfully locate a missing 9 year old who was reportedly abducted Sunday evening. Police officers in Evans were notified at around 8:30 p.m. that a 9 year old girl had been missing from the 2900 block of Glendale since 8 pm on Aug. 5. Following [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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by Brett Reese – After reading the Greeley tribune story of July 20th about raising property taxes to tear down and rebuild John Evans Middle school, I was convinced the three lattes a year sacrifice each of us would have to make for this school was an easy decision. And, as always, The Tribune couched [...]
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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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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 Matt Lacy – While some were portraying the recall election in Wisconsin as a referendum on unions, the National Education Association has far bigger problems facing them. Over the past two years the organization has lost over 150,000 members and is predicting the loss of another 200,000 in the next two years, [...]
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Photos and Review by Stu Wright I was pretty excited this last Monday about receiving the Infiniti luxury SUV for testing. The QX that arrived represented the second year of the third generation of QX56’s, and is the biggest Infiniti to date and first to be built in America. It’s Q lettering comes from [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Review & Photos by Stu Wright I left the hyphen out of the brand name of the car I drove last week because that is what Janis Joplin did when she wrote, and titled, her song in 1970. Her lyrics read “Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?” In the song, she also [...]
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When the NOAA announced the results of its acidic study of the oceans last spring, I asked one simple question, “You claim the oceans are more acidic now than they have been in 800,000 years and it is due to human, specifically American, activity. Where was the human population that caused the acidic level to [...]
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by Carol Clemans – Since Roe vs. Wade, we’ve had over 50 million babies murdered from their mothers’ wombs. That means we’ve had over 50 million ‘mothers to be’ who have had to live with the haunting memories of the abortion. God is the giver of all life starting at the time of [...]
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by Stu Wright The new, bigger, Toyota Prius V (vee) was introduced in our country in October of 2011. It was designed as a station wagon/multi-purpose vehicle to complement the Prius lineup. The Prius has been around since 1997 and is America’s number one selling hybrid. In fact, it accounted for almost 51% [...]
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Pro-life leader says abortion community ignores issue Crutcher by Peter Grady – A new report reveals the violent side of the pro-abortion movement with women being murdered for not being willing to undergo the procedure. The report, Under-the-Radar Violence in the Conflict Over Abortion was produced by Life Dynamics, a pro-life group that conducts abortion [...]
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by Stu Wright The 2012 Subaru Impreza 2.0i Sport Premium is the topic of this week’s review. I recently got to test out a Marine Blue Pearl 5-door hatchback model with black striped cloth buckets and a “boxer” four cylinder power plant. The punch-counterpunch action of the boxer pistons in the Subaru [...]
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by Stu Wright The 1963 Beach Boys hit was the b-side single opposite “Surfer Girl,” and was about a b-car; the 1932 Ford model B. “Deuce” in the song title was a result of the last digit in that model year, and the Nissan I drove last week was another “deuce coupe,” [...]
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DOJ claims Ken Scott doesn’t have Fifth Amendment rights against self-incriminationby Jack Minor – An abortion protestor is Colorado that is being prosecuted for passing out flyers outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver, has received legal help from a law firm that specializes in pro-life cases. Kenneth Scott has been defending [...]
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Sues SeaWorld for engaging in “slavery” of killer whales by Jack Minor – An animal rights organization has filed a lawsuit claiming that the 13th Amendment which outlaws slavery applies to animals as well as humans. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in Southern California on [...]
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Court to set new district boundries Reapportionment web is being spun in Denver By Craig Masters After ten years of knowing they would have the job to do, Colorado legislators have finally reached the deadline for turning in their “homework.” The Supreme Court ruled October 31, that oral arguments regarding reapportionment of the Colorado General [...]
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Group claims aborted babies would produce $3.5 trillion in tax revenue by Jack Minor – While many in the pro-life community cite the morality of taking a human life in their opposition to abortion, a new website reveals the cost is far greater than simply the number of dead children. The website invisibleinfants.org features data [...]
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Union Colony given permission to open charter school east of 23rd Ave. by Jack Minor – The District 6 board of education gave permission for Union Colony Preparatory School to open an elementary school on the east side of town. Union Colony had submitted an application last year that was rejected by board for [...]
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BBC – “We ain’t got no jobs, no money … We heard that other people were getting things for free, so why not us?” explained E. Nan, surrounded by other youths in Hackney in east London. Google ‘British riots’ and you can read the details of riots across England in the King’s English. Many of [...]
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