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Since the Gazette first reported on a movement by residents in multiple states petitioning the Obama administration for secession, the issue appears to be gathering steam with a majority of states now wanting to leave the union. At the time of the Gazette’s article 22 states had summited petitions on the White House “We [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Colorado along with 21 other states have filed a petition with the administration requesting the right to secede from the United States and form a new government following President Obama’s reelection last week. Following Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney last week, the president and his supporters have said [...]
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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 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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by Peter Grady– Following a debate performance where the bipartisan consensus showed him the clear winner, crowds appearing at campaign events for Mitt Romney are surging. According to the Associated Press, as election day draws closer the crowds are getting larger as the Republican base appears to have finally warmed up to [...]
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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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by Matt Lacy – State officials in Illinois have revealed that they paid over 1,100 inmates more than $2 million in unemployment benefits while they are in jail. According to the Associated Press, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said one inmate in the Cook County jail in Chicago was able to collect [...]
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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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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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By Craig Masters A report issued by a joint project of several Minnesota voters’ groups focuses on the question of why felons are not allowed to vote. The reasons felons are excluded from voting in any election in Minnesota apply in every state regardless if they are excluded or not. Those reasons include the disrespect [...]
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by Jack Minor – Weld County, the only county in the state to be debt-free took the first steps to achieving another first in the state with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new regional crime lab on Wednesday. The lab, which will be located of U.S. 257 near the Pepsi distribution center will [...]
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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 Jack Minor – During last week’s debates the two candidates for House District 50 revealed a stark contrast on the Constitution and helping small businesses with excessive regulation. “Skip” Carlson, a small business owner, said the hindrance to job creation was excessive government regulations that make starting a business a lengthy and [...]
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by Peter Grady – LONGMONT — A Longmont woman whose unborn son was killed by a drunk driver said she intends to advocate for the personhood movement after learning his killer will face no consequences for his death. Earlier this year Heather Surovik suffered the loss of Brady, her unborn baby who was [...]
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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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by Jack Minor – Verizon Wireless customers now have a bit of good news with the announcement that Greeley will have the new 4G LTE service in the coming weeks. Erica O’Connor, a spokesperson for Verizon Wireless said that Greeley should expect to see the new 4G service in the next several weeks. [...]
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Photos and Review by Stu Wright This past week in Illinois I was presented an Infiniti FX35 to drive around the state. Ruth and I picked it up at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and set sail to the Northwest towards Rockford. Our ultimate destination was Galena, Illinois, an old lead mining town that is [...]
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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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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 Craig Masters If you are one of the many Americans afraid of “Chicago tactics” by the Obama administration, read no further. No one will blame you. The Justice Department under the direction of Eric Holder, himself held to be in contempt of Congress, has initiated a well-documented and systematic program of intimidating states which [...]
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by Peter Grady – Chicago officials appear to be helping Planned Parenthood obscure the truth about a black woman who died at their offices while obtaining an abortion. Last month it was revealed that Tonya Reaves died after being left for several hours after staff at the eugenicist founded organization’s Chicago facility tore [...]
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by Jack Minor – A local leader of a conservative group says while he agrees that John Evans Middle School needs to be torn down, if voters do not pass a bond issue this November school board officials will have no one to blame but themselves. The District 6 board of Education will [...]
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by Peter Grady – In what some veterans groups have condemned as an attack on the rights of the military to vote, the Obama campaign has sued the state of Ohio over a law that allows men and women in uniform the ability to vote for three days longer than civilian [...]
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WELD COUNTY, CO – On July 11, 2012, the Colorado Department of Human Services extended to Weld County Commissioner Barbara Kirkmeyer an invitation to join the newly created Child Welfare Executive Leadership Council. According to the invitation, “The Council will bring together key executive leaders in child abuse prevention and protective services from across the [...]
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by Mike McCune – As individuals, as a community, as business owners and workers, and as public employees we each have some difficult decisions to make in the near future. The unassailable problem is debt, public and private, that is threatening to overwhelm America. The problem simply cannot be moved down the road any [...]
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by Peter Grady – A local pro-life couple has had to go into seclusion after vandals threw a large rock through their window following a profile of their work in Newsweek. Keith and Jennifer Mason were profiled in an article for Newsweek magazine that was featured online in the Daily Beast. The piece [...]
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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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State’s top attorney joins other states; calls for repeal to save liberty, freedom and states’ rights.by Craig Masters Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, “I am disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Colorado and its fellow states. We have a fundamental interest in protecting state authority and individual rights in the face of the [...]
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Hickenlooper tells Weld farmers “take bad with the good” by Jack Minor— In the latest twist in the issue around Weld farmers requesting to pump groundwater to save their crops and help lower excessively high groundwater levels, a government official said farmers can pump all day long to keep groundwater out of their basementS, [...]
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State suspends senior water rights to fight fires, not save crops by Jack Minor – Not taking no for an answer Weld County Commissioners have sent a letter to the state Attorney General asking him to review a memo issued by his staff that resulted in Governor Hickenlooper saying he could not order local [...]
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by Jack Minor – Governor John Hickenlooper has responded to the concerns of Weld County farmers who face the potential of losing millions of dollars in crops by saying they are essentially on their own. During a meeting this morning with Weld County commissioners the governor told them to work together with other farmers, municipalities [...]
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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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by Peter Grady – With the defeat of a state senator who personally killed personhood measures in South Dakota, supporters now say lawmakers will aggressively pursue the measure during the next legislative session. Incumbent state Senator Curtis Olafson (R), who personally killed personhood proposals in 2009 and 2011, lost his bid for re-election [...]
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GREELEY – The Greeley Fire Department would like to remind citizens that the Governor has issued a ban on all use of personal consumer fireworks in the State of Colorado. However, the City Attorney’s office has determined that the ban does not enable the City to stop the sale of personal consumer fireworks. Citizens will [...]
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