Archive for August, 2009

Former Denver Broncos running back Floyd Little has [finally] been selected as a finalist for the NFL Hall of Fame class of 2010.  As one of two finalists from the Hall’s seniors committee, Little’s enshrinement is very close to a sure thing. Broncos fans have long felt their team was under appreciated and if any [...]

God love the Marines!  Way to go, shipmate!

RTD’s problems with math are well documented and are seen in the skyrocketing costs of FasTracks and its ability to properly budget for the project.  The district is now closing the books on its part of T-Rex and rather proudly announced on its website “T-REX closes out light rail portion of project $3.7 million under [...]

An old southern country preacher from Georgia had a teenage son and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn’t have a clue what he wanted to do, and didn’t seem too concerned about it.  One day, while the boy was away at [...]

Is it any wonder that north metro area residents have an inferiority complex when it comes to transportation funding?  Our highways are continually neglected and ignored by CDOT and oftentimes even our own area politicians.  We have watched C-470 bring relief to the southwest metro area, T-Rex fix the disaster through the central part of [...]

Tuesday the Denver Post reported some pretty tough talk from Denver metro area mayors about RTD’s FasTracks boondoggle.  The rail project which is facing more than a $2 billion funding shortfall continues to show failures of management and yet area politicos seem bent on supporting it to its bitter end.  Aurora mayor Ed Tauer and [...]

Amusing… I was just sitting here watching the president’s town hall in Grand Junction, CO. A person asks how private medical companies can be expected to compete with the federal government who doesn’t even have to maintain a balanced book. The president says private companies can and do compete with the government successfully and he [...]

Last week we wrote extensively about sources for local news in Thornton.  We don’t live in Denver, we don’t live in Highlands Ranch.  We do live in Thornton, the state’s 6th largest city and we always want more news about our community.   So what is wrong with the choices we have now?  A few things.  [...]

In what is hardly a shocker, the Denver Regional Council of Governments’ latest annual review of the RTD FasTracks project paints a picture of continued failures with the largest boondoggle in the state of Colorado.  Despite continued budget problems and repeated warnings about their overly optimistic expenses and income for the project, RTD continues to [...]

As congressmen and senators return to their districts and states to open a dialogue with their constituents, they are certainly getting an earful.  Some of these protests have turned ugly which is a shame as no one wins a shouting match.  Reasoned debate will accomplish much more and stands a better chance of making Washington [...]