by Craig Masters After a short concert by country music star, Jamie O’Neal, Vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan kept spirits high of the enthusiastic crowd that packed the manufacturing facility of the Walker Implement Company in Fort Collins Wednesday morning. Like he did Sunday at the Romney/Ryan victory rally in Denver, former Colorado congressman, Bob Beauprez ,opened [...]
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by Matt Lacy – While union supporters claim Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survived a recall because of outspending his opponents, what is overlooked is the effect pro-life voters played in the election. “Hundreds of thousands of right-to-life people understood the high stakes for unborn children in yesterday’s recall elections and they voted their right-to-life [...]
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by Matt Lacy – Following intense efforts by unions, first-term Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will face a recall election for signing a law that was needed to balance the budget in the state. On Friday, the Government Accountability Board voted 5-0 to order the recall against the Republican governor after opponents submitted 900,000 signatures, almost [...]
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“Gay” groups say laws granting them legal benefits not good enough, want word “marriage” by Jack Minor – The mayors of two major cities along the Front Range are part of a group calling for legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the country. At the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. on Friday, a group [...]
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by Jack Minor Wisconsin’s budget battle has ended for now. It ended with the passage of a balanced budget that has helped one school turn a deficit into a budget, despite critics saying it would “devastate” education. Like Colorado, Wisconsin requires the government to balance its budget every year. In February, in an attempt to overcome a [...]
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By Mike Bauman Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent a letter to BATFE Director, Kenneth Melton, decrying the contents of an email Grassley obtained in which the ATF told its employees that they are not under any obligation to answer questions from Congress and that any such questions should be directed to a specific office. [...]
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Governments choose the laws to enforce Attorney Paul Clement by Jack Minor Recent actions by both the federal and state governments have indicated they will simply ignore their responsibilities by refusing to defend or enforce laws they do not like. In 1996 Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act with bipartisan votes. The bill was [...]
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By Jack Minor With midterm elections looming a California judge has reignited the culture wars by declaring Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment declaring marriage as being only between a man and a woman, unconstitutional. The constitutional amendment was passed by over 7 million voters including many Latino and African-Americans. When those in opposition filed a [...]
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Claude Vernon Harvey, 71, of Greeley, CO passed away July 11, 2010 at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, CO. Claude was born April 25, 1929 in Ogallala, NE to Allie and Evelyn (Spoeneman) Harvey. He grew up on a farm in Ogallala until his family moved to Colorado. He attended Greeley High School and graduated [...]
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Conrad “Coony” Meyer, Jr., 80, of Greeley died on Sunday, June 13, 2010 at the North Colorado Medical Center Hospice Inpatient Unit. He was born May 24, 1930 in Greeley to Conrad and Elizabeth (Walker) Meyer. He graduated from College High School, now University High in Greeley and enlisted in the US Navy for two [...]
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By Mike Bauman Children have long idolized firefighters. They are awestruck by the shiny trucks and the uniforms and the equipment. Unfortunately, when it comes to teaching fire safety, sometimes the flash outshines the message and children remember the sirens and the lights, but not the things they were taught. In 2008, Evans Firefighter Shawn [...]
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August 6, 1915 ~ May 15, 2010 Age: 94 Residence: Greeley, Colorado Esther Schmidt of Greeley died Saturday, May 15, 2010 at North Colorado Medical Center. She was born August 6, 1915 in Loveland, Colorado to Jacob and Henrietta (Walker) Amen. Her mother died when she was 8 years old, and her father married Katherine [...]
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Michael P. “Mike” Campbell, 55, of Greeley, died April 21, 2010. Mike was born December 7, 1954 to Paul E. and Agnes Lorraine (Walker) Campbell in Durango, Colorado. Mike graduated from Brighton High School in 1972 and after graduation he lived in Boulder for 20 years. He worked in carpentry trades, had an I.T. background, [...]
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