Month: December 2021

(Colorado Peak Politics)

It’s a very confusing time to live in a holiday and party destination state.

Dr. Fauci advises we must cancel New Year’s Eve party plans with a large crowd no matter whether you’re vaxxed, maxed, or masked

 “If your plans are to go to a 40-to-50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year? I would strongly recommend that this year we do not do that.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci is urging Americans to cancel their New Year’s Eve parties as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to surge due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant. https://t.co/yaIfqlGkbP

— 1200 WOAI (@1200WOAI) December 29, 2021

In spite of the COVID surge in the high country, Democrat state Rep. Kerry Donovan says it’s cool if we party there, so long as we get tested.

Wanna party like it’s 2022?

🎉 Get tested and party with your friends guilt-free. 🎉

List of towns here:https://t.co/2pxhiJ3d8m https://t.co/clI4UbK9Tv

— Kerry Donovan (@KerryDonovanCO) December 29, 2021

Donovan, like President Biden, thought testing kits just grew on trees and could be used for non-essential purposes like permission to party, or keep their Colorado state job, which requires two testings per week.

Now like all things in the Biden economy, there’s a shortage of testing kits and folks are standing in line for hours at the testing site in their community to see if they are sick,

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(Mile High Evening News)

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Friday it was a “New Year’s miracle” that no fatalities have been reported from the destructive, fast-moving fire that ripped through heavily populated neighborhoods and retail areas in Boulder County.

“We might have our very own New Year’s miracle on hand if it holds up that there was no loss of life,” Mr. Polis said at a press conference in Boulder. “We know that many people had just minutes to evacuate.”

As many as 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in a matter of hours Thursday in the Marshall and Middle Fork fires, fueled by dry conditions and winds of up to 105 mph that pushed the flames over highways and into the suburbs of Superior, Louisville and Broomfield.

A few small blazes continued to burn in neighborhoods and fields, but the lingering flames were expected to be extinguished by the snow that arrived Friday morning, a day too late to squelch what was described as the most destructive fire in state history, based on the number of structures lost.

“We were fortunate that the winds dissipated last night,” said Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle. “We’re expecting snow today. That snow has already started. We’re hoping to see 3-6 inches of snow and some good moisture. That’s certainly going to help our efforts.”

He said the cause of the fire is under investigation,

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(Mile High Evening News)

(The Washington Times)

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage.

The decision Thursday on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence was among several end-of-the-year commutations and pardons issued by Polis.

The move comes days after a judge scheduled a hearing for next month to reconsider the sentence at the request of the district attorney, who had planned to ask that it be reduced to 20 to 30 years.

Around 5 million people signed an online petition seeking clemency for Aguilera-Mederos.

This article was published at The Washington Times. Read it in its entirety here. Read More

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet better pay closer attention to the fundraising firm he hires to raise money for his reelection bid, because the company he used for his presidential aspirations is being accused of exploiting the workers.

From Business Insider’s exclusive report on Basecamp Strategy and CEO Mike Reid:

Inside an exploitative Democratic money machine: Ex-staffers describe a ‘sham’-like PAC, burnout conditions, and panic attacks

Ultimately, it was a small cog in the massive machine of Democratic fundraising. But it’s also an example of how the sprawling party apparatus drafts young, idealistic workers to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from small donors — and then pumps it into a web of PACs, campaigns, firms, and consultants.

Not only did the company allegedly exploit and mistreat workers, Reid is also accused of behaving like a racist, even as he sought to raise money for minority candidates.

Former staffers told Insider that Reid, who is white, made comments they perceived as racist or racially insensitive. Two said that in a company meeting in the summer of 2021, Reid said people of color made him uncomfortable.

The former email writer, a woman of color, recalled that Reid said that the demographics of the company’s staff reflected his own comfort level and that he was comfortable with only certain kinds of diversity.

So that’s awkward.

The work expectations sound extreme, and the boss totally comes off as a dick in this report. 

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(The Colorado Herald)

In the American state of Colorado on Thursday, December 30, was declared emergency mode due to natural fires, which intensified due to strong winds. This was announced by the Governor of the state Jared Polis.

“The Governor has declared an emergency situation in connection with the fact that vegetation is burning in Boulder County”, – said in a statement.

It is noted that the emergency mode, will allow the state to access disaster relief funds, as well as to quickly deploy regional resources, including the use of soldiers of the U.S. National Guard.

Several evacuation centers are currently deployed throughout Boulder.

Evacuation orders have been issued for a number of communities in the county, including Louisville, which has a population of about 21,000, and Superior, which has a population of about 13,000. Louisville and Superior are located near the administrative center of Colorado city of Denver.

Wind speed is expected to decrease noticeably by evening. Its strongest gust of about 44.7 m / s was recorded in the vicinity of Denver.

Earlier in September, U.S. President Joe Biden estimated the damage from the consequences of natural disasters in 2021 in the U.S. more than $100 billion.

The American leader said that he saw with his own eyes the consequences of the Caldor forest fire in California. He also visited Louisiana, New York and New Jersey, where he assessed the damage from Hurricane Ida.

According to the American leader,

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(Colorado Peak Politics)

The reporter covering business and the outdoors for the Colorado Sun was shocked to discover that high country ski resorts are jam-packed during the Christmas and New Year holiday with tourists.

To top it off, it snows up there! A lot! And when tourists go telemarking down I-70, crashes occur, road closes.

Quelle horreur!

But wait, there’s more.

Apparently, a pandemic has been visited upon the world for two years now and it has created unique problems.

It’s difficult to understate the enormity of the clusterfuck that is the Colorado high country right now. Holiday crowds. Limited staff. Raging corona cases. Big snow. Closed roads. Cancelled flights. Party time! Come on up! Stand in line, get sick & stuck.

— Jason ☀️ Blevins (@jasonblevins) December 29, 2021

Welcome to the high country in the time of COVID.

There is a spike of reported COVID cases following the Christmas holiday, but the severity of those cases is unknown. 

With Gov. Polis cracking the whip on the populace to get tested, tested, tested, one should expect the number of reported cases to rise, which it did on Wednesday to 8,600 cases statewide. 

The whole point of getting tested is so folks will know to quarantine to stop the spread. So a high case number is not necessarily an indicator of doom.

But some commenters on Blevins tweet were in a panic anyway over a spike of cases in Summit County,

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(Complete Colorado Page Two)

Frisco–Local governments in Colorado’s High Country have spent thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on climate studies pushing questionable emissions scenarios.

The studies—conducted by Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) on behalf of Summit and Eagle Counties and the towns of Frisco and Breckenridge—project a future of extreme heat that threatens to disrupt quality of life in the mountain communities if no action is taken to mitigate climate change.

“These numbers show both how much Summit County has at stake as humans continue to change the climate and how much difference climate protection actions can make to head off unacceptable changes,” Stephen Saunders, President of RMCO, said. “And this will be of interest in other Colorado mountain communities with similar elevations, because they can expect similar changes.”

While the predictions sound startling, a deeper look into the methodology uncovers that the dire consequences are the result of models using an unrealistic greenhouse gas emissions trajectory.

Climate myopia

These scenarios are reliant on a faulty “business as usual” projection known as Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5, which experts like Professor Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado Department of Environmental Studies calls “untethered from the real world.”

“The misuse of RCP 8.5 involves the transformation of what is more accurately described as a worst-case scenario into the sole ‘business as usual’ or baseline scenario that has become a centerpiece of climate policy discussions,” he wrote in a 2019 Forbes article.

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(Mile High Evening News)

The Colorado police officer badly injured in a shooting earlier this week has been credited for her bravery after confronting the suspected gunman during a shooting rampage that resulted in five deaths, including the suspect.

Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris engaged Lyndon McLeod, 47, moments after he fatally shot a 28-year-old worker at a Hyatt in the town of Belmar, police said. A police statement said Ferris ordered the suspect to drop his weapon as he approached.

Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris was credited for her bravery during a shooting spree earlier this week.
(Lakewood Police )

“The suspect ignored her commands” and fired a shot into her abdomen, police said. Ferris managed to return fire. The suspect was struck and died at the scene.

Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris is expected to make a full recovery.

Ferris underwent surgery Monday night and is expected to make a full recovery.

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“I can’t overemphasize enough the heroic actions of our Lakewood police agent,” police said during a news conference Tuesday. “In the face of being shot, in the face of danger, she was able to not only save others from this terrible tragedy but also neutralize the threat.”

Dec. 28: Workers confer close to a sheet of plywood covering a window of a pizza parlor in Lakewood,

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