Posts Tagged ‘unions’

With Election Day over and a new mayor and members of council seated on the Thornton City Council dais, it is time to get down to business – literally and figuratively.  The economy continues to cast a pall on everything but there are other issues we would like to see council tackle. In no particular [...]

As misguided and oftentimes ridiculous as the various ‘occupy’ protests are, their desire to stop the influence of money on public policy is not entirely off the mark.  Looking down at a city level, Thornton residents need to be aware of the efforts of outside special interests to influence our local politicians. Those down at [...]

After being missing from the job voters hired him to do for months and potentially facing criminal charges, Ken Riley submitted his resignation to the RTD Board of Directors on Monday night.  In a troubling trend, he becomes the third local Adams County politico in recent months to become embroiled in scandal. Nearly two weeks [...]

It is a longstanding tradition of print media to endorse candidates and issues.  These endorsements are quite telling about a publisher’s bias and none are more so than this year’s endorsements by the publisher of Mile High Newspapers and MetroNorth Newspapers. The very premise of the so-called ‘unbiased media’ providing political endorsements is counter-intuitive and [...]

Fran Tarkenton is one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks of all time having led the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl three times.  Since leaving the gridiron he has become a very successful entrepreneur and in today’s Wall Street Journal he penned a piece pondering how the NFL would look if it were run like [...]

Certainly the endorsement of a Democratic candidate by a union is no surprise as labor’s ignorant affair with leftist politicians is never ending even if unrequited.  However in an unprecedented move, the National Education Association has jumped ahead and endorsed President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection long before competing candidates for the presidency are chosen. At [...]

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 was watching some video of the union and anti-union protests at the state capitol yesterday and in one of them, I noticed something interesting.  State Representatives Judy Solano and John Soper were seen cheering on their union buddies from the balcony of the capitol building. With all the drama in Wisconsin and other states [...]

All it takes is several thousand dollars worth of campaign contributions and you too can further your special interest group with the City of Thornton.  Over the past year and a half unions have found a veritable haven within Thornton and a proposed new ordinance seeks to further push labor groups’ interests while making Thornton [...]

The actions of Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis and the charges of plagiarism are indefensible and the reason I refuse to vote for him in the Republican primary.  A recent attack ad took the hopeful to task over the allegations and now it is revealed that the all-powerful Colorado Education Association was behind the ad. [...]