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Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
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I really hate to say anything for fear that it could bring bad luck to the person I’m about to talk about. But since everyone is talking about him every week I really doubt if this column will matter that much. Yes, in this column I will talk about Tim Tebow. It would be difficult to not notice what has happened during the last eight weeks in the life of the Denver Broncos. I am not a Denver Bronco fan or ever will be but that doesn’t mean I can’t be a Tim Tebow fan. I don’t...
There is a brighter side to Christmas this year, despite the weak economy and lawmakers bickering over how to patch the $2 billion hole in the state’s budget. The good news comes from Boeing. Boeing and its machinists recently ratified a new four-year contract, which averts a strike through 2016. Even though the plum in the pudding was the accompanying announcement that Boeing would produce its new 737 MAX at its Renton plant, the agreement has much broader significance. Early ratification of a labor agreement is hugely i...
In the fall of 2010 the governor refused to call the Legislature into a special session unless she got assurances from the leaders of the four legislative caucuses that they could finish such a session within 48 hours. The reason, according to this published report: “I can’t call a special session and get nothing done,” she said. (The governor eventually did call us back, after a tentative cost-saving agreement was reached; that session lasted one day, almost exactly a year ago.) This year Gov. Gregoire called the Legis...