Gov. Polis is being asked to do his job and cut his summer vacation short to deal with the impending property tax crisis and the cash-bail-for-murders reality we now live in thanks to Polis’s elimination of the death penalty.
No more capital punishment in Colorado means the worst of the worst can’t be held without bail.
But rather than call a special session of the state legislature demanded by what few Republicans are left in this state to pay attention to such critical matters, Polis is punting on decision making and trying to raise both property and paycheck taxes.
And he’s in no rush to keep killers in jail, telling the public to wait until November of 2024 to maybe see a solution on the ballot for us to consider.
What is consuming Polis’s time that keeps him punting tough decisions on taxes and criminals to ballot questions for voters instead of the legislature his party controls?
As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I’m extremely confused by this Transformers and My Little Pony crossover. I mean, My Little Prime? It’s somehow so unsettling. pic.twitter.com/FUhbVmBtsD
A woman died after she fell 500 feet Sunday while trying to “free solo” climb Blitzen Ridge, a rock formation on Ypsilon Mountain in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park.
Free solo refers to climbs made only using hands and feet, without the aid of climbing equipment.
Climbing enthusiast magazine Gripped identified the woman as Bailee Mulholland. The National Park Service has not disclosed the name of the 26-year-old woman from Boulder, Colorado, pending notification of her next of kin.
A Facebook page for Bailee Mulholland identified her as a yoga teacher.
A 27-year-old man was with the woman at the time of her fatal fall on Sunda
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The Northglenn City Council is trying to censure two of its members for excusing themselves from a June 5 meeting before a Pride Month proclamation was read.
The officials didn’t make a big scene or protest in any way.
Councilor Tim Long of Ward 4 excused himself to use the bathroom, and Ward 1 Councilor Nicholas Walker also left the dais before the proclamation item was even discussed.
Long declined to comment on his absence but Walker later told the Northglenn Thornton Sentinel it was for personal reasons.
So why the big stink?
City Councilor Becky Brown said Walker has been helping her while she walks or stands since she sustained a recent injury and the two talked prior to the proclamation.
“He was telling me that he was not going to be there for the proclamation,” Brown said.
No good deed ever goes unpunished with some people. How dare they not be present for everything of importance to the Progressive State?
So here we are more than a month later and the woke culture police are calling out the members for wrong think and seeking to shame and punish them with censure.
Chief propagandist Kyle Clark fanned the flames of cancel culture and seemingly suggests that Long should be mocked for his outdated lexicon, while informing the mob the censure vote will occur at the end of July.
Did you see the headline about how cooking with a gas stove is reasonably safe especially if you have good equipment and adequate ventilation? Of course you didn’t. No major news outlet ran such a headline, even though the statement is accurate.
Instead, the Denver Post’s Matt Sebastian Tweeted the following summary of a story in the paper: “Cooking with a gas stove in your home is like living with a smoker, new Stanford University research conducted in metro Denver finds.” I responded, “I notice the words ‘can’ and ‘depending’ in the lede of the article, which are pretty important qualifiers!” When I looked a few days later, the headline atop the story said using such a stove “can be like living with a smoker.” Better! Then the implication is clear: It also can not be. And it usually isn’t.
Reporter Noelle Phillips’s lede says the of benzene present depends “on ventilation and the size of the house.” The further you read, the more qualifiers you find. Phillips quotes the Stanford-produced study as saying benzene “may increase health risks under some conditions.” By paragraph fourteen, we find, “Benzene levels exceeded health benchmarks in one-third of the 87 homes studied.” So—let me do the math here—that means benzene levels were low in two-thirds of homes. How long do you think the paper’s editors considered the headline, “Gas stoves produce low levels of benzene in two-thirds of homes”?
Elections have consequences, and in Colorado, all murderers can now get out of jail on bond while they await trial as a consequence of Gov. Polis banning the death sentence.
The state Supreme Court has ruled it is so because no case will ever be considered a capital crime, bond must be set.
Big round of applause to our ass hat of a governor who repealed capital punishment in 2020.
Republicans are demanding Polis call a special session of the legislature to address his big oopsy.
“This issue must be addressed now, not next year,” Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, R-Brighton, said in a statement. “We urge Governor Polis to convene a special session immediately – we need to get back to work, do our job and pass a law that stops protecting suspected murderers and starts protecting the people of Colorado.”
And while they’re at it, Republican lawmakers also want to address in a special session the property tax mess the governor is also causing with Proposition HH wherein property taxes will increase a little bit, while our payroll taxes will also go up as well with the eventual elimination of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR).
That was Polis’s solution to the spike in property taxes Coloradans face due to inflationary Bidenomics — jack up everyone’s taxes.
“Governor Polis must convene a special session to address the devastating increase in property taxes,” Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen,
In the wake of LGBT Pride Month, we move on to Disability Pride Month and National Ice Cream Month in July. How come the celebration of our nation’s birth gets only one day on the Fourth of July?
Scores of other causes get a full month either by presidential proclamations or simply the pronouncement of some organization. September gets 14, like National Honey Month and National Yoga Month. I didn’t find any for December with Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, and Festivus (see, “Seinfeld”) presumably clearing the field. If we cut the length down to a week, they could fit in hundreds more.
LGBT Month has its roots in a Gay Pride march on June 28, 1970 in NYC. A year earlier on that date, a brutal police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay night club in Greenwich Village, set off a week of protests that became known as the Stonewall Riots. That set in motion the Gay Rights Movement. In 1999, President Clinton officially declared June “Gay and Lesbian Month.” In 2011, President Obama expanded it to the whole LBGT community. Don’t be surprised if it becomes a national holiday with government workers taking the day off.
Homosexuality is as old as humankind, although gays and lesbians have been historically denied societal approval and respect. Their battle for public acceptance and basic rights in America was finally won, deservedly, in the 21st century. As a sense of how recently that was, even President Obama still publicly opposed same-sex marriage until 2012,
University of Colorado Boulder head coach Deion Sanders has reportedly re-signed with Nike after saying in 2017 he would “never” wear their shoes again.
Sanders posted an Instagram photo Friday of himself with one of his signature Nike sneakers, captioned “We Coming.”
A former dual MLB and NFL player, at times on the same day, Sanders was known in the 1990s for his Nike Air Diamond Turf line, which was first introduced in 1993.
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Sanders’ signature shoe was re-released in 2013 and 2017, according to The Spun’s Matt Audilet. The model featured in Sanders’ post is red, white and black, an original color scheme inspired by Sanders’ MLB tenure with the Atlanta Braves and his NFL stint with the Atlanta Falcons, per Audilet.
Sanders was hired by Colorado to overhaul a historically bad Buffaloes team in December. The school has been part of Nike sponsorship deals since 2005 and is currently on contract with the brand through 2025.
The sponsorship deal requires Sanders to “exclusively” wear Nike branded products “while he is acting in his official capacity as head football coach,” according to contract deals shared by USA Today’s Brent Schrotenboer.
That has led to Sanders’ reunion with Nike, a brand he was once so closely tied with he starred in commercials alongside Dennis Leary.
Sanders previously cited grievances with the brand, including them declining to help him provide funds to youth sports organizations (h/t Schrotenboer) and a lack of what he felt was proper compensation for his role in designing the original Diamond Turf, in statements regarding his split with Nike.
With Colorado, however, it looks like Sanders has returned once more to Nike sponsorship. That might mean sneakerheads can expect an upcoming Diamond Turf re-release.
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LOVELAND — A group of Loveland residents who for months have tried to stop an urban renewal authority (URA) project from breaking ground on the southeast side of town are slightly more than 3,100 signatures away from their latest attempt to do so.
Two petitions that would change the Loveland City Charter — one that would remove a 3 percent sales tax on food and one that would require voter approval for future urban renewal projects — are in circulation. Petitioners have until August 9 to collect the signatures of 3,126 registered voters to place the items on the November ballot.
Opponents say the charter changes are being sought because supporters lost a fight to stop a large development in the city using tax increment financing (TIF) as the funding mechanism.
“It’s a punitive measure this group is trying to do because we passed the South Centerra Piece,” said Loveland City Councilman and Loveland Urban Renewal Authority Chairman Dana Foley. “They’ve said, ‘If you don’t need our taxes, if you can give up 1.75 percent of our sales taxes, then why not give up 3 percent on food.”
Foley was referring to the agreement that city officials reached with the developers of a new multi-use urban renewal project known as Centerra South that will be located just south of the existing Centerra development at the northeast corner of the intersection of US Hwy 34 and Interstate 25 in Loveland, a city of about 80,000 people,
Only in Denver would the city council consider paying the Canadians $40 million of our tax dollars to take care of all those migrants pouring over the open border and into our Sanctuary City, so they don’t have to bother with it anymore.
Oh, and this short-term contract would include an option to continue hosting up to 1,000 migrants at a time beyond the presidential election for even more money through 2026.
But wait, there’s more to the size of the cojones on this proposed deal …
Open border activists don’t want the contract going to Canadian company GardaWorld because they’re afraid information will be shared with the same federal immigration officials who greeted them at the border and then be deported.
Hello! Are illegal immigrants even getting deported from the U.S. anymore since Joe Biden took office?
The concern is a false flag for certain.
But the activist is adamant that GardaWorld isn’t helping migrants out of the goodness of a lefty heart.
Then there’s this:
A recent Miami Herald article reports that GardaWorld bid for a controversial contract run by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration to fly migrants from Texas to other parts of the country. GardaWorld was not the company involved in the 2022 migrant flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., also orchestrated by DeSantis, in which people said they were “tricked” into getting on the plane to a town that was not told to expect migrants.
A Colorado supermarket employee who recorded an alleged shoplifting incident has been fired from his job.
A King Soopers worker, Santino Burrola, recently captured three men fleeing the store he worked at with hundreds of dollars worth of laundry detergent on video.
Santino Burrola filmed the three shoplifters stealing the items on Father’s Day, June 18, around 6: 40 p.m.
The video shows three men in a parking lot hastily transferring laundry detergent into a vehicle. Burrola approaches the vehicle with his phone recording, playfully taunting the thieves.
“Look at them stealing,” he says off-camera. “Really, bro? You gotta resort to this? The economy’s not that bad.”
“My first instinct was to record,” he told CBS Colorado.
Police work on the scene outside of a King Soopers grocery store where a shooting took place in Boulder, Colo., on March 22, 2021. (David Zalubowski/AP Photo)
Burrola followed the men outside to their car as the shoplifters hopped in the car and started to drive away. Burrola manages to pull off the aluminum foil covering the license plate.
At no point does Burrola physically engage with the shoppers, but he was fired for supposedly violating the store’s policies against chasing after thieves or intervening in a theft.
In a statement, King Soopers said it values its hardworking associates, and “nothing could be more important than their safety and that of our customers.”
“We appreciate that, in this instance, their actions may have been well intended,” King Soopers said. “However, they violated the policies that are in place for everyone’s safety. Nothing in our stores is worth sacrificing that core value and their safe return home.”
At a different King Soopers location in the same state, five employees were fired last year after restraining a man armed with a box cutter from stealing from inside that store. Surveillance video shows how they held the man down until police could arrive. They’ve since appealed their terminations.
The company told CBS Colorado it has “security measures in place to help prevent crime and deescalate such confrontations to minimize the risk to our associates.”
“While we cannot comment on personnel matters, we value our hardworking associates and their return home,” the company said.
In California, the state passed a bill to prohibit businesses from asking employees to confront shoplifters or active shooters has passed the state Senate, despite opposition from retailers who say it would add to the state’s escalating retail theft problem.
“With growing awareness of workplace violence, California needs smarter guidelines to keep workers safe in the office or on the job site,” the bill’s author, state Sen. Dave Cortese, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Under SB 553, employers would be prohibited from forcing t
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