http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/colorado/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:07:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050841/posts How do you rate Gov. Ritter's job performance? Excellent Good Fair Poor Not Sure Don't Care denverpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050841/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:07:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050713/posts If John McCain and his loyalists were hoping for something to brighten their day amid the blizzard of coverage of Barack Obama's foreign tour, they've gotten it with new poll results from four key states -- Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The survey by the Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, conducted between July 14 and Tuesday, contains especially good news for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in Colorado and Minnesota. In Colorado, the one state among the four that President Bush carried in 2004, the poll showed McCain ahead by 2 percentage points. That lead is within the poll's margin... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050713/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:31:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050326/posts Another Dam Threat July 16, 2008 http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/another_dam_threat By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart At the stroke of midnight July 8, the Denver Water Board closed the road over Dillon Dam in Summit County, Colorado, citing security concerns. The board’s decision, which was implemented without advance notice to local governments and citizens, has not been well-received. It has sparked protests by enraged residents and has even prompted officials from Summit County, three affected towns nearby and the local fire and rescue department to file suit in state district court in a bid to force Denver Water to reopen the road. The... STRATFOR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050326/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:36:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049955/posts The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel taxes. The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable taxes. However, Public Works spokeswoman Christine Downs told City Council members just hours before that host committee members were fueling up at the city pumps. The city does not... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049955/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047375/posts Dozens of protest groups are planning a full schedule of classes, concerts, marches and other actions during the Democratic National Convention, hoping to capture the world's attention and recruit new activists. Ron Lewis shoots video and transmits it to his Web site, ronlewis.com/live, at an event Thursday by We Are Change Colorado. The organization said it plans to video DNC protests and police, posting clips on YouTube.com for the public to see. They are both energized and organized, and most insist they are not looking for trouble. "We are completely peaceful," said Rob Weiland, a 37-year-old courier from Denver and... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047375/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047326/posts A scene from the recent Colorado senate debate. The man reading from the resolution is Republican Bob Schaffer, the man standing to his left and looking uncomfortable is Democrat Mark Udall. Given the state of public opinion, I’m not sure how smart it is to remind voters that your opponent eventually came around to seeing the war as a mistake while you never did, but as a bit of political theater, I dig it. A lot. Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047326/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:51:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045292/posts El Paso County deputies are looking for an African lion on the loose in the eastern part of the county. Sheriff's Lt. Lari Sevene said the first call came in of large cat chasing several dogs through a field off of Log Road. That call came in at 7:35 a.m. The resident told deputies the cat had a red mane and a big tail. Officers obtained a photo of the big cat. A second sighting was reported after the first and a second resident also took a picture of the lion. 7 NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045292/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044413/posts Obama's Liberal Shock Troops By JOHN FUND July 12, 2008 While he is a skilled candidate, Barack Obama's ability to surprise, stun and sweep over the vaunted Clinton Machine to capture the Democratic nomination was rooted in his background as a community organizer. He's now turning those skills to the general election. But liberals aren't just on the march on the presidential level. This year, liberal activists are spending parts of the fortunes of their wealthy donors to transform politics at the state and local level. In 2005, billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70 super-rich liberal donors... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044413/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040228/posts A glam-metal rocker is bucking the Greeley Stampede, vowing to use the band's gig there Saturday to educate fans about "rodeo cruelty." "I had no idea that this gig included a rodeo," Poison drummer Rikki Rockett, an animal-rights crusader for 16 years, said in a statement. The 86-year-old Greeley tradition bills itself as the "World's Largest 4th of July Rodeo." "I am blown away that I missed the description of this show on our touring schedule," said the 46-year-old Rockett, whose real name is Richard Ream. "I have a huge problem with animal cruelty at rodeos," said the drummer, who... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040228/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:58:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039579/posts As Denver dignitaries gathered today for Mayor John Hickenlooper's State of the City address, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem. But that's not what she did. Instead, Marie performed the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," which also is known as the "black national anthem." When she finished, the proceedings moved forward, and the "Star-Spangled Banner" was never performed. The Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039579/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:07:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038722/posts A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt. The teen's 1985 Nissan Maxima plunged more than 1,000 feet down the ravine strewn with boulders and skree. He pulled himself from the wreckage, but it took hours for local rescuers and military helicopters to make the daring rescue. "We've had rain, we've had snow, we've had lightning popping around us all day," Steve Sperry, spokesman for El Paso County Search and Rescue, said by cellphone shortly after the teen-ager was lifted from the mountain by a Chinook... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038722/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037293/posts Stuck, lost and hobbled in the German Alps, a quick-thinking Colorado Springs woman hooked her bra to a mountainside supply line, which alerted rescuers to her whereabouts just as they were giving up the search. "We're going to have a party for her every June 19, and give her some new bras," Elana Bruinsma, said Monday morning of her sister, Jessica Bruinsma, 24. The white sports bra has become the talk of the Berchtesgaden area of Germany near the Austria border. The Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037293/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:41:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2035899/posts Censorship. Book burning. The Criminalization of Christianity. It's here and it's now the law in the state of Colorado. The Ku Klux Klan can march. The Nazis can hand out brochures. Skinheads can do whatever it is that Skinheads do. But in the state of Colorado, the only group who is NOT allowed to be heard is … the Christians. They're the ones who disagree with same-sex marriage, cohabitation, and believe the biblical view that homosexuality is a sin. But if they voice that objection from now on, it had better be inside the four walls of a church. If... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2035899/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033980/posts The Denver Post ran a column by Al Lewis that questioned the need to enact a Right to Work law in Colorado and the reaction has been visceral. Dozens of citizens have taken it upon themselves to teach Mr. Lewis a thing or two about the unfairness of forced unionism. A sample of the reaction: * . . . I am 72 years old and had been in the work force for 50 years prior to my employment with the City of Boulder and this is the FIRST time that I have ever been in a union. $10.00 a month... Right to Work Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033980/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:26:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033458/posts BOULDER (KWGN) -- Some residents of Boulder are upset over how the Police Department handled the city's naked bike ride Saturday. Being naked in public is illegal in Boulder, yet police did nothing about it. The story is being compared to the Catholic priest who was just convicted last week of jogging naked in public in Frederick, Colorado. Robert Whipkey was convicted by a Weld County jury of indecent exposure for jogging naked in the middle of the night around a high school track. Yet ,last Saturday in Boulder, more than 60 men and women, many of them stark naked,... New2 Denver Colorado http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033458/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030355/posts You might have heard about the Colorado "Restroom Chaos" law signed by Governor Bill Ritter a couple of weeks ago. It allows men who "think" they're women or "feel" like women to use the ladies restrooms and locker rooms. But apparently the law had some more bad stuff in the fine print: politically incorrect Biblical truth has been outlawed in Colorado outside the walls of the church. Dakota Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030355/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027625/posts NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You'd think this would be oil shale's moment. You'd think with gas prices topping $4 and consumers crying uncle, Congress would be moving fast to spur development of a domestic oil resource so vast - 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. You'd think politicians would be tripping over themselves to arrange photo-ops with Harold Vinegar (whom I profiled in Fortune last November), the brilliant, Brooklyn-born chief scientist at Royal Dutch Shell whose research cracked the code on how... Fortune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027625/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:10:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026626/posts Ward Churchill is baaaaack! by: Deborah Lambert, June 05, 2008 Although Ward Churchill was finally fired by the University of Colorado, Boulder for plagiarism and dishonest scholarship rather than his 9-11 remarks, you'd never know it from his website at www.wardchurchill.net, aka the “Ward Churchill Solidarity Network,” dedicated to “Defending Academic Freedom and Political Dissent.” The site includes a petition to reinstate Ward Churchill, and a statement of support from Noam Chomsky.... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2026626/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:27:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2024593/posts Today is June 1, 2008. A year ago we were anticipating the arrival of my grandson. So much has happened since then, and yet the battle is still the same. Heavenly Father, we thank and praise You for Your gracious and loving mercy. We thank You that You do not see our failures because of Your love for us and the blood covering of Christ over us. Father we ask for Your strength and that You will move in the heavenlies, causing a movement in the earth. Father God, move things in the state of Colorado, where they fight for... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2024593/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:21:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2023765/posts How can any logical person think this is a good idea? Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, a Democrat, signed Senate Bill 200, which essentially let’s any man who says he’s really a woman, use the women’s facilities in public places. By facilities, I mean the restroom and locker room: The bill initially outlines requirements for the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and also bans discrimination based on sexual orientation for things like housing, car insurance, funeral services and public accommodation. The bill also extends bans on discrimination, where previously unwritten, for things like race, creed, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital... All American Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2023765/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 23:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023324/posts Brightly colored women's thong underwear disguised the identities of two men during the robbery of an Arvada Diamond Shamrock earlier this month. Arvada police believe two Latinos entered the gas station at 6802 Wadsworth Blvd. just before 5 a.m. on May 16, donning the underwear over their faces and demanding cash from the clerk on duty. Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023324/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 02:14:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023311/posts Ritter signed Senate Bill 200 this afternoon in his office, without any of the public ceremonies and news releases that came with six other bills he signed today. His spokesman, Evan Dreyer, said the governor was not deliberately trying to keep the signing quiet. In all, Ritter signed 20 bills today, Dreyer said. Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023311/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 01:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022122/posts Mr. McCain has launched a Spanish-language Web site, aired TV spots in Spanish emphasizing his military service and, at a Cinco de Mayo event in Phoenix, declared "everything about our Hispanic voters is tailor-made to the Republican message." Gil Cisneros of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Colorado, who is vice chairman of the McCain campaign in the state, said the Arizona senator has a reputation among Hispanics as patriotic, family-oriented and moderate on immigration. He said Mr. McCain's sponsorship of last year's failed legislation to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants will be a strong selling point. Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022122/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 22:31:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019835/posts The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for West Central Weld County and East Centrla Larimer County until 1 p.m. today. A tornado already has touched down in Gilcrest and Milliken, and there are reports that the storm has caused heavy damage near Promontory in west Greeley. The Weather Serivce tracked a large tornado three miles southwest of the New Windsor reservoir, eight miles east of Fort Collins. The National Weather Service reports that the safest place to be is in the basement. Get under a work bench or other piece of sturdy furniture. If there is no... Greeley Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2019835/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 19:23:05 GMT