
Gaines: Progressive press slathers bias on Venezuelan gang story
Journalists are using these residents to push their progressive perspective.
Journalists are using these residents to push their progressive perspective.
Compassion is commendable, but it needs to be tempered with reason and practicality to be effective.
The basic attitude that Coloradans should maintain toward bureaucrats and elected officials is this: Get off my lawn.
If Aurora or any other district wants to take the risk that electric is the wave of the future and pay the huge cost themselves, then good for them.
The far-left Colorado Working Families Party (CWP) has put its name on about two dozen city council and school board candidates in support of their election across the Denver-metro area, endorsing entire slates in some cases.
If the AG’s thesis is true, his next “patterns and practices” targets must be the agencies in his home of Denver and Gov. Jared Polis’ home of Boulder.
“There were all walks of life there, but he targeted law enforcement because it’s the hot topic right now. This just built up a larger barrier between law enforcement and the community. It’s a witch hunt.” — Greenwood Village Police Chief Dustin Varney.
The real reason why the encampment inhabitants refuse to access the shelters is simple — the shelters have rules.
Are we seriously going to leave it to the socialists—who often rationalize the mass-murder of scores of millions of people under Communist regimes—to defend the rights of people like Elijah McClain?
Let’s start with something I think we can agree on – we should all make healthier choices in the food and drink we consume. Unfortunately, some feel the need to compel those choices.
“The scary part to me is there’s a fine for the first and second violation and ultimately a business could have their license revoked for continuing to offer a sugary drink as a default option.” Curtis Gardner
“Our jurisdiction took to trial 24 first-degree murder cases last year. That’s an appalling number of murders, but it’s a reality. Three or four came out of Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln.” 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler
By Jon Caldara
In a previous life I was on the Regional Transportation District (RTD) board of directors. This elected position paid a whopping $250 a month but it did include a free bus pass. And let me tell you, the ladies dig a man with a bus pass.
In 1997 RTD (actually, the bond dealers and contractors who run RTD) were trying to con the voters into a massive tax increase to buy a trolley system so bond dealers and contractors would make a killing from the boondoggle. The board was split on this idea, with a slight majority bending a knee to their crony overlords.
Denver’s municipal Channel 8 brought forward an interesting proposal: at no cost to RTD they’d televise our board meetings. Awesome.
Given smaller governments, from town councils to school boards, broadcast their public meetings, this was a no-brainer for RTD, the fourth largest government in the state. Let the people see the people’s business.
The RTD board rejected the proposal. The very same directors who voted “yes” for the tax increase voted “no” to broadcasting their behavior at public meetings.
They knew full well if voters saw the dysfunction and ineptitude of the board, they’d never vote to give these clowns more of their money.
More than a quarter-century later, the very same dynamic plays out with the clown show that is our state Legislature.
Colorado is only one of two states that don’t livestream committee meetings.
Colorado is a big freaking state, bigger in land mass than the United Kingdom. If citizens in Durango wish to witness their representatives in action, they must drive 350 miles to do so. This is so far that their soon-to-bemandated electric vehicles will need to charge overnight somewhere along the route.
When the House or Senate meet in full, in the big chambers, well, that’s streamed live on ColoradoChannel.net. And that’s fine, but that’s not where the real deal-making of governing happens. That happens in committee meetings.
Both chambers have 10 committees each that decide the fate of legislation before it goes to either floor for a vote. Beyond that there are 15 year-round committees and another 14 interim committees. What goes on in these 49 committees constitutes the overwhelming majority of decision making at the Capitol. And you must be in-person if you want to see it.
Let me amend that: Every committee room in the Capitol is equipped with video cameras and large TV monitors. If you wish to testify in one of those committees, assuming they allow testimony, you can sign up to do so online.
Post COVID, we all understand how Zoom works, even our legislators. So, the only way to remotely witness government in action is to give testimony online. Only then can you see the whole thing remotely. But you must testify and not all meetings have testimony
This Zoom participation proves live streaming these meetings is just a matter of flipping a switch to make public what only that handful of people online can see now.
Bart Miller, the chairman of the Colorado Channel Authority, the entity created by state government to broadcast video of the House and Senate (but only the big chambers), says they lobbied in vain to let them flip that switch on for years and years and years.
And get this, it doesn’t take a vote of the full House and Senate, they just need the OK from one of those committees they’re not allowed to broadcast on Zoom. The Executive Committee of the Legislative Council is made of legislative leadership — Senate President James Coleman, Speaker of the House Julie McCluskie and the minority and majority leaders of both houses.
If you’re keeping score at home that’s four Democrats and two Republicans (who have no problem flipping the Zoom switch to “public”).
And here’s the cherry on top: since the late 1960s legislative staff must keep an audio recording of all these committee meetings.
Bart Miller of the Colorado Channel Authority tells me his governmental authority would be happy to disband all together and go away if legislative staff flipped the video switches on along with the audio switch they already run.
When was the last time a governmental authority suggested its own demise to throw some sunlight into some of the government’s darkest rooms?
What are they hiding?
As Colorado considers nuclear energy as an option, what happens with the nuclear waste? Where would it go and how much would there be? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this and more.
Show Notes:
Nuclear storage plans in Northwestern Colorado
https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/18/nuclear-waste-storage-colorado-rio-blanco-county-rangely/
https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/29/nuclear-waste-storage-hayden-routt-county/
Chris Wright Lays Out DOE Priorities
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-energy-baseload-generation-nuclear-transmission-wright/739412/
Transparency is a key to government accountability. Often judges have to order that public information become, well, public. How very odd then, that many judges refuse to follow transparency laws themselves. Retired Judge Dennis Maes explains.
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