Posts Tagged ‘Doug Darr’

Local law enforcement officers around the nation are taking a stand against the Obama administration’s push to take away our 2nd Amendment rights.  Many have publically stated they will not enforce these unconstitutional mandates and a Colorado sheriff has now joined the chorus. Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith posted a public message on his personal [...]

Running for political office is an expensive endeavor, even at the local level.  Delving into current Adams County Commissioner candidates’ donor records reveals big contributions from special interest groups and even from the same disgraced politicians we are trying to rid ourselves of. Every election year I write a story about campaign contributions to the [...]

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, [...]

State Senator Mary Hodge and Representative Cherylin Peniston have represented Adams County for many years but sat silently through dozens of scandals in Adams County and refused to take a stand for their constituents.  Now, faced with a public uproar, they are desperately trying to save their political careers by forcing an ethics measure on [...]

Twenty five days.  That is how long the Adams County Sheriff’s Office is accused of jailing a deaf man without providing any means to communicate with him.  Continuing a troubling trend of problems with county government, the story has now gone national with Drudge Report and the Associated Press highlighting the story. The sheriff is [...]

In a letter to the editor of the Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel a resident took to lamenting partisan politics at Thornton City Hall.  Considering the source is as partisan as they come, the dispatch is almost comical. Linda Wisniewski rips into freshly seated Thornton Mayor Heidi Williams, apparently concerned about Williams’ party affiliation, campaign contributors and associations.  [...]

In one fell swoop Adams County has set back relations with the cities within its borders 20 years in a move that threatens to return more criminals to the streets instead of remanding them to jail.  The inability of the county government to properly control its finances now is set to harm the very citizens [...]

To say Adams County “leans  left” would be a very accurate statement.  Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 11% of the electorate in the county – an advantage of nearly 25,000 people.  Despite this, the Adams County Democrats took a pretty big beating in Tuesday’s election. Before I discuss the various county races it should be [...]

In a county encompassing nearly 1,200 square miles and with more than 600,000 residents there is bound to be plenty of drama.  Trends in recent years however show that Adams County government is on the wrong track as scandals and management issues keep the county in the news resulting in it being cast in an [...]

In Adams County Democrats have had a virtual stranglehold on elected offices for a long time.  While the county has seen some successes, we are seeing underlying problems at each and every office from the commissioners on down that need to be addressed and warrant change.  Related: The troubles we have seen – Scandals and [...]