Archive for the ‘Denver News & Politics’ Category

Adams County Commissioner candidate Chaz Tedesco is trying (and failing) to right his campaign’s ship and offered a laughable defense of his being caught lying during a television interview.  His counterpart in District 1, Eva Henry, made the mistake of failing to distance herself from her fellow Democrat. Tedesco was caught lying about past DUI [...]

In a rare joint appearance Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appeared before an audience of thousands at Red Rocks Amphitheater west of Denver last night.  The avenue and the cheering throngs of supporters gave the even the feel of a rock concert as the candidates carried forth their hopeful message. Kid Rock and Rodney Atkins [...]

The disappearance of Jessica Ridgeway from a Denver suburb has riveted the city as all are praying that the missing 10-year-old is found safe.  Time is of the essence in any missing person’s case and I can’t help but wonder if Jefferson County School District’s procedures didn’t cost crucial hours in the search. When Jessica [...]

Most people either loved or hated Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention but all would agree it was unique.  His discussion with an empty chair representing President Obama has now sparked an impromptu holiday: ‘National Empty Chair Day.’ The idea started on Twitter and Facebook and it has quickly gone viral spurred on [...]

Nine months ago Adams County implemented measures to limit jail population that has put citizens at risk.  They promised that the issue would be revisited in June.  Now that the time has come – and past – the sheriff has said he is ‘too busy’ to sit down with the cities, work on the issue, [...]

RTD’s latest assessment of the state of its massive FasTracks rail boondoggle would be laughable if it weren’t so sad.  The transportation agency now is promising the north Denver metro area will get its rail line – in 2044. Certainly we could go on and on about the failed rail project that has been oversold, [...]

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock envisions ‘Denver Airport City’ as a boon of tax revenues with a wide variety of development.  The problem with his plan is that it would violate the intergovernmental agreement that allowed Denver to annex Adams County land to build Denver International Airport. In the 1980s Denver saw the need for a [...]

When Amtrak was formed in 1971 funded by the U.S. taxpayer, it was promised that the so-called ‘for profit corporation’ would be in the black within three years.  Today we are 41 years later and we learned today of yet another example of how this fleecing of U.S. taxpayers continues today – sandwiches! At a [...]

As if one rail project billions of dollars in the red wasn’t enough, those who fantasize about shiny choo choo trains gathered yesterday to plan for their next taxpayer funded boondoggle.  On the agenda now is a Front Range rail system linking much of the Colorado I-25 corridor. It sounds great in theory.  Hop on [...]

I had configured an automatic posting of a cartoon for Tony’s Rants’ usual ‘Friday funny’.  That has been removed.  Today there is nothing funny and it is certainly not a day for politics. What sort of demons were running through the young man’s head that compelled him to kill and injure so many in Aurora [...]