Archive for October, 2009

You have to love it when even the mainstream media starts calling out the White House on its taxpayer money wasting stimulus plan.  Following on the numerous errors in jobs counting that have come out in recent days, it was announced that “640,329 jobs have been created or saved” due to the stimulus fund.
As ABC [...]

If George W Bush was an idiot . . . .
If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled [...]

On Tuesday night the vote to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of Thornton became official.  City council passed the measure on second reading by an 8 to 1 vote. 
There were many reasons this ban was necessary and we have discussed those previously.  Today, 9News has a story on their site that confirms why this action [...]

On August 30th General Stanley McChrystal, commander of our forces in Afghanistan submitted his request for additional troops.  Here we are now 57 days later, casualties continue to mount and President Barack Obama is taking his time rendering a decision. 
As we have said before:  Mr. President, give the troops what they need or bring them [...]

After teasing about it for a few weeks, MetroNorth Newspapers has released an updated website.  The new site consolidates the MetroNorth Newspapers site with the Mile High Newspapers site, all owned and published by Scott Perriman.  This essentially puts all eight news properties including the Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel under one roof on the Internet at great8newspapers.com. 
I [...]

Ah yes, the hysteria that surrounds global warming and manmade climate change can sometimes be deafening.  Here is Colorado we hear about it all the time in relation to the pine beetle outbreak in our beautiful mountains. 
It has been said that man is responsible and the beetle is a harbinger of ecological doom.  That statement [...]

President Barack Obama has traveled around the world apologizing to every nation on earth for America’s “misdeeds” and has shown a willingness to negotiate with even the most dangerous regimes on earth.  Continuing in that vein, the White House has announced he will travel to California to negotiate with the deadly wildfires to try to [...]

We recently wrote about how much money had been raised by the people running for the four open Thornton City Council seats.  This was done as an exercise in understanding not only how much it costs to run for local office but also where that money comes from. 
In looking at the candidate contribution reports, it [...]

Ah, the drama of local politics – a topic which I usually shy away from.  However, for issues that truly matter I feel obligated to delve in and have my voice heard and that is the case with Adams County Ballot Question 1A.
In what was a contentious fight that ended up in Federal Court, the [...]

Thornton City Council candidates posted their contribution / expenditure reports this week (click here to view them).  In looking at them, they provide some insight into how much it costs to gain one of the eight coveted seats – four of which are up for grabs right now.  It is also interesting to see who [...]