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DENVER – A jury indicted three people on Thursday for stealing as much as $11.5 million from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=74350
The government can take that money from you, but don't try taking it from them or you will get in trouble!
DENVER - Voters can expect to decide marijuana policy in the city this fall. It will be the third time in as many years voters have been asked about the topic.
Supporters of a ballot initiative to make adult marijuana possession the lowest enforcement priority for the Denver Police Department have gathered enough signatures to send the measure to the November ballot. Denver's City Council could enact the measure into law instead of sending it to voters, but that is considered highly unlikely.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=74219
This sounds like an initiative the LPCO/LPDenver will support.
Immigrants striving toward citizenship often make an easy mark for the scam artist intent on taking advantage of their vulnerabilities in a new country.
Advocates say that unfamiliar areas such as language, culture and a complex legal system can cause immigrants to seek assistance from - and fall prey to - someone falsely offering help in navigating the bureaucracy.
http://origin.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_6429189
The real problem here is the complexity the government has created in order to obtain citizenship. Regardless of where you stand on immigration, there is something broken about the process of legal citizenship when it so difficult to become a legal citizen that the process takes years, thousands of dollars, and requires a mountain of legal paperwork.
Planners initially figured 500 solo drivers would pay tolls during the average weekday rush hour and that the operation would bring in $80,000 a month after the first few months.
But since January, morning rush hour has seen a daily average of between 1,425 and 1,861 solo drivers per month. Averages in the evening are similar. The total number of paying customers has ranged from roughly 72,000 to 90,000 a month.
The take for the Colorado Department of Transportation: between $144,216 and $181,917 in monthly toll revenue.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5639244,00.html
Kristine Burton, a 19-year-old student who opposes abortion, has a ballot question for Colorado voters in 2008: Would they approve an amendment to the state constitution that would define the beginning of personhood as fertilization of an egg, inside or outside the womb?
The secretary of state's three-person title board held a hearing on the anti-abortion initiative Wednesday afternoon.
Working with Burton's attorney, Mark Meuser, the board crafted ballot language for an amendment "defining the term 'person' to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as 'person' is used in those provisions of the Colorado Constitution relating to inalienable rights, equality of justice and due process of law."
http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_6408443
Libertarians are divided on the abortion issue, but I am having trouble believing that it should be an amendment to the constitution regardless of where you stand on the issue.
I am sure by now you all have heard about the crazy guy who walked into the Governor’s office and had declared himself emperor of state government and was shot down after showing his own gun. You may hear gun control advocates try and use this as a case to push for more gun control. I believe the opposite to be true. The emperor never got a shot off because unlike shootings at schools there were plenty of armed people at the capitol building. In this case they were the police, but it could have just as easily been Ritter himself or an armed aide The point is that in this case guns being carried by law abiding types were able to stop an incident before it escalated. Imagine what might have happened if the capitol had been declared a “gun free zone”, like they had implemented at Virginia Tech.
For more on the attempted shooting:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5634110,00.html
The LPCO mourns the loss of Dave Meleney
It is my sad duty to report that a friend of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, Dave Meleney died Thursday. He was electrocuted while trimming a tree.
A funeral service will be held next Saturday, July 21st, in Deer Creek Canyon Park (south west of Denver near Wadsworth and C-470) at 5 p.m. with food at Dave's mom's home afterwards. For details on attending the funeral, contact Frank Atwood at 720/260-1493.
As many of you know, our LPCO Gubernatorial candidate last year was Ms. Dawn Winkler, Executive Director of HAPI (Health Advocacy in the Public Interest). I (your LPCO Legislative Director) was the LPCO Lt. Gubernatorial candidate. What you may not know is that Dawn lost a child from mercury poisoning; due to excessive amounts of a form of mercury called thimerosal used in vaccines as a
preservative. And I have an Aunt in a wheel chair due to vaccine damage.
Many American consumers are unaware that the developed world, other than the United States, has essentially banned mercury from all of their childhood vaccines, including the flu vaccine. But, the USA continues to use mercury as an inexpensive preservative in millions of doses of the flu vaccine. Seven years ago, in 1999, the following concensus was reached by the US's leading public health agencies: “[The] Public Health Service, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and vaccine manufacturers agree that thimerosal-containing vaccines should be removed as soon as possible. Similar conclusions were reached this year in a meeting attended by European regulatory agencies, the European vaccine
manufacturers, and the US FDA which examined the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines produced or sold in European countries.”
Finally, last Wednesday, July 11, the House Committee on Appropriations adopted by voice vote an amendment that prevents federal dollars from being used to provide flu vaccines, that contain mercury as a preservative, to children under three years of age. This amendment, offered by Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) was based on legislation that he has introduced with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) to
completely ban mercury from all vaccines. This bill will come to the floor of the House of Representatives on July 17.
ACTION: Please contact your member of Congress today and urge them to vote against any amendment that removes from the FY 2008 House Labor/HHS Appropriation bill the provision that bans mercury (thimerosal) from childhood flu vaccines! A pre-written e-mail is on the A-CHAMP web site (at the bottom of the page) at: http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=10011746&type=CO
Since March, Beth Hammer has been flying the United States flag upside down as a protest to the war in Iraq.
Her homeowner's association had asked her to take the flag down, saying she was violating the political expression code of conduct.
Friday, the Cambridge Park Homeowners Association, Inc. released a statement saying that while Hammer was violating the Federal Flag Code and the HOA's policy, "that the best interests of all the Association's members would not be served by pursuing enforcement under these specific circumstances."
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=73668
The homeowner association is right to have her take down the flag, she VOLUNTARILY signed on to the HOA rules and one rule is that political expression is not allowed then she should abide by the rules she agreed to follow or find a community with either no HOA or one more suited to her tastes. I live in a housing community that bans political signs outside of the home and I abide because I agreed to follow the rules of the community before choosing to move in.
Porn pirates, it seems, have hijacked the 2006 campaign Web site of the first-term Congressman from Golden. And they are holding it hostage for more than $1,000.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5627893,00.html
This is just funny.
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