Posts Tagged ‘Noel Busck’

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.  [...]

The Metro North Chamber of Commerce and MetroNorth Newspapers held their City Council Candidate Forum recently and while the event did not provide too much notable, there were some interesting comments by some of the candidates.  As much as anything it was interesting just to observe some of them as they answered and in doing [...]

Try as I might I just simply can’t stay away from the Adams Family drama.  The soap opera of corruption and greed of Adams County Democrats is like a train wreck you just can’t look away from. First let’s talk about County Assessor Gil Reyes, he of “donate to my campaign and I’ll knock millions [...]

YouTube can be such a terrible waste of time but there are occasions when it is a boon.  Yesterday we posted video of Colorado State Representatives Judy Solano and John Soper cheering on the union rally at the capitol.  Thanks to a comment left on that story we now have video of RTD Director Ken [...]

I could turn Tony’s Rants into an RTD and FasTracks only website very easily if I wanted to – there is simply so much to write about the boondoggle.  Lately there have been a couple notable items come up that I thought needed mentioning. First up, in a guest column in the March 11th edition [...]

Last week Westword did a really fascinating piece into the investigation of Dan Tang and his alleged marijuana growing operation.  The article is by far the most in depth piece on what was a years-long effort into investigating eventually arresting dozens of players in the scheme.  As was alluded to in previous coverage by other [...]

Former Thornton mayor and  current RTD director Noel Busck spoke Fox 31 News last week and addressed his involvement in holding $400,000 in cash from accused drug ring leader Dan Tang.  In the interview, Busck says that he did so without question simply as a measure of his 20 year friendship with Tang.  The interview [...]

In an interesting development in the case of Dan Tang, owner of Heaven’s Dragon, former Thornton mayor Noel Busck is said to have accepted $400,000 from Tang for safe keeping.  Court documents list Busck as a witness saying he accepted the money so Tang could “have money to live on, to pay bills, to pay [...]

In the wake of RTD forcing salaried employees to forego their scheduled 3 percent pay raise, the ever magnanimous and generous RTD chief Cal Marsella told the RTD board yesterday, “I am willing to take the same hit as everyone else.”  Just last month Marsella generously agreed to give up 3 percent of his $50,423 [...]