Posts Tagged ‘MetroNorth News’

Much has been said and written about the lack of the American flag at Rangeview Library District facilities.  The controversy brought a great deal of media attention, including in the pages of the Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel.  This week the Sentinel editorial cartoonist took a shot at the issue and showed a clear lack of understanding. The [...]

So what does tens of thousands of dollars buy you with Thornton City Council?  Judging by the actions of some on council Tuesday night, it gets you payback in the form of granting unions inroads to city employees. City council members that have received significant campaign contributions from organized labor managed to pass a resolution [...]

The head of the Rangeview Library District Board of Trustees said this morning that its failure to install flagpoles and fly the American flag at its facilities was a mistake and the board intends to correct it.  Appearing on the Peter Boyles Show on KHOW, Kay Riddle said a special meeting of the Board of [...]

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.  [...]

Between now and November there will be many opportunities to learn more about the individuals that would like to serve as your Thornton City Council representatives.  Twelve candidates have announced their intention to run for the four available seats thus ensuring a rather vigorous debate between now and Election Day.  MetroNorth Newspapers and the Metro [...]

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.  [...]

If you are a news and politics junkie like me, you probably yearn for timely local coverage of Thornton news.  With a population of over 100,000 people and being the state’s sixth largest city, Thornton certainly has a lot going on and plenty to report about on a daily basis.  Throw in the other north [...]

In an editorial in the Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel this week, MetroNorth News editors take President Obama to task for his insistence on running a PR campaign rather than running the United States government.  In recent weeks we have seen Obama appear on Jay Leno (the first time a sitting president has appeared on late night TV), [...]