latest blog posts
Will Jane Norton, Ken Buck, Or Tom Wiens Pay Homage To Grassroots Conservatives?
Colorado Republicans Scrambling To Out-Conservative Each Other
As the first annual Tea Party national convention opens in Nashville, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is wondering if any of the...
This will be my first full winter back in Telluride since my freshman year of high school six years ago. For someone who spent his childhood on the ski area, that’s pretty crazy to think about.
As I think is true for most people who have lived and grown up in Telluride, skiing has defined who...
Growing up in Arkansas exposed me in an interesting way to the major two political parties in our country.
My father was a life long Republican and my mother a life long Democrat. I clearly remember sitting at the dinner table listening to them argue about Bill Clinton. My father basically...
Republican Candidate Puts 3rd District In Play Grand Junction, CO – Today, the Tipton for Congress campaigned released polling showing Scott Tipton in a virtual tie with incumbent Congressman John Salazar. Tipton, a small business owner and respected public servant, ensures the 3rd Cong...
Hello everyone! On February 13th, Andrew will be participating in a forum sponsored by Be The Change. On their website (http://www.btc-usa.org), they have a poll asking who they should endorse. Vote in the poll today and let them know they should endorse Andrew Romanoff for the United States S...
Republicans in the Colorado Senate today unveiled a proposal to reduce government spending as an alternative to the Democrats’ plan to raise taxes on the businesses and citizens of Colorado.
“Democrats keep saying that in order to balance the budget ‘everything is on the table,’” said Sen. K...
"This is not an election for class clown, it is an election for Governor of Colorado" GREENWOOD VILLAGE – As the Colorado General Assembly continues to debate a $130 million tax increase proposal by Governor Bill Ritter, Colorado Republicans again called on Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to ...
New website offers "McInnis-style reinvention" DENVER: ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest online progressive advocacy organization, launched a new website and statewide new media advertising campaign for "McLobbyist Makeover," in response to recent attempts by former Congressman Scott ...
A little more than a year ago, some of America's biggest financial institutions helped send our nation into its deepest fiscal crisis since the Great Depression. Since then, millions of Americans have lost their homes, their paychecks, and their savings.
In 1933, Congress moved swiftly to ref...
(CENTENNIAL) – U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton today became the first Colorado candidate to sign the Colorado Energy Forum’s Energy Leadership Pledge, thereby vowing to fight for the thousands of men and women who count on Colorado energy development for family-sustaining jobs. “President Oba...
photos

ALL AMERICA CITY MANAGER – Montrose City Manager Bill Bell flourished the award Sunday evening in Denver. Montrose was awarded the title of All America City this weekend. (Photo courtesy Scott Shine)
TELLURIDE ACADEMY STAFF – Gathered for a pre-season photo just prior to the Monday, June 10, launch of its 33rd Summer Season. (Courtesy photo)
PRODIGAL DAUGHTER – Trish Greenwood, Ridgway Elementary School’s new principal (here with husband Jim Nowak), is returning to the school where she began teaching, in 1989. (Courtesy photo)
HEALTHY FAWN – Leave them alone, even if they seem to be abandoned. They more-than-likely are not. (Photo courtesy of David Hannigan, Parks and Wildlife)
HIGH TIMES – The Gold Belt Theatre was part of the “small empire” of vice developed by the brothers Vanoli in late Victorian Ouray. The Ouray County Historical Society Evenings of History presentation next Tuesday (June 18) will look at artifacts from the Vanoli Block, and what it all means. (Courtesy photo)
BEN WAYNE LILLARD, 1957 - 2013
DIXIE KEITHLY, April 3, 1931 – June 9, 2013
TROUT LAKE is currently being drained in order for Xcel Energy, which owns the recreational area, to complete work on the output of the lake’s dam. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)
AZTECA DANCERS will be in Ridgway this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
