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Re: Hick Ventures Into the Would-Be 51st State, Not Warmly Received

@geincolo — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:54:45 -0000

Hick and Obama must stop trying to appease these fools, Would you try to teach moron to reason? No. Waste of time. We let these people have their 15 min of attention and now it is time to squash the movement and the gutter snipes involved like the pest they are.

Re: The 51st State: Colorado’s Secessionist Movement

Guest — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:47:54 -0000

The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled
So I assume it would have three (two senators and one House member). Colorado would probably lose a House member and be down to eight. As the article stated, though, those eight would probably be blue.

Re: The 51st State: Colorado’s Secessionist Movement

Henry Flores — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:59:07 -0000

Forgot one variable. How many Electoral College votes would this add to the EC? What would be the strategic value to the Republican Party's presidential strategies with these new EC votes?

Re: Landri Taylor

Cindy Lowery-Graber — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:12:04 -0000

I just emailed the I News Staff for more information and ask that they clarify.

Re: Landri Taylor

Sylvia Sullivan — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:47:13 -0000

So who said this ??? Is I-news making this up ???

Re: Landri Taylor

Andrea Mérida — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:34:26 -0000

As his colleague on the Denver school board, I can tell you that Landri does not hold a pro-voucher sentiment.

Re: Colorado’s Medicaid dental woes

Bowen — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:46:14 -0000

Only 1 comment....am I the only one in all the world to read the article and see that something is very wrong!!! The only real positive of this story was Li'l Teeth Dentistry!!!!!
All the good work of this and other dental people is for naught if the real message is not shouted out daily.....SUGAR IS THE ENEMY! Apples, gummy fruit snacks, seet tarts, chocolate and SODA!!! Are you kidding me??? What do people think causes tooth decay?
And a Team Smile clinic operating in the PEPSI Center!!! Anyone have the results of the nail in the glass of those drinks that the drink companies offer??? Next we will be seeing a cancer clinic in the smoking center!!
Hats off to Drs of the Li'l Teeth Dentistry.
Schools should be helping with anti sweets messages, free dental clinics, free dental checks. The sad things is the small town public school I attended more than 50 years ago had free teeth cleaning, free dental checks and reminders of the harm sugar products caused to teeth.
The message concerning overall health and tooth decay is well known by many governments but for some reason the tooth decay problem is only addressed with mini measures.
The US Armed services have the finest dental care for its troops. While service dentists are officers (a higher pay grade) they do a very good job on the pay they receive. Can you hear the dental groups (high paid dentists) yelling if governments (states and federal) were to introduce free dental clinics and have them staffed by service officers?
One who knows

Re: Burt Hubbard

Gary Frank — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:42:43 -0000

Good story. Surprised me to hear that a Springs area has this high a death rate. I would have expected from Denver, but not here in the mecca of the christian right.

Re: Landri Taylor

Gully Stanford — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:31:23 -0000

I checked the voucher reference with Landri: he assures me that he does not support vouchers. His comment:

"I just checked my notes from the interview the I-News reporter. What I said was totally opposite! My words were that voucher supporters are running away from the problem! Vouchers would ruin the whole idea of neighborhood schools! I was not one of those parents. Gloria and I kept our kids in neighborhood schools despite the fact that the schools were tagged as low-performing. We fought for our schools to get better and kept our kids in those schools to work and fight on behalf of our neighbors and neighborhood! "
I believe you owe Landri and apology and a correction.

Re: Notable Colorado Tornadoes

Kevin Vaughan — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:23:49 -0000

Mike -- no tornado appears in the federal database for that date in Colorado. It's very possible that one was never verified by the weather service.

Re: Notable Colorado Tornadoes

Mike — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:28:54 -0000

This map is not quite complete as there are some that are missing that I witnessed myself. Here is a link on youtube to one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Burt Hubbard

elizabeth sprague — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:15:20 -0000

I work for CBS News and am trying to reach you. Can you please let me know how best to contact you? i can be reached at the email address i posted with.

Re: About the reporters…

Don — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:47:20 -0000

BTW who defines what is a 'red zone', and how?

Not a trivial question; a lot of money could be riding on this.

Re: About the reporters…

Don — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:32:44 -0000

Is there a political roadmap for removing these substantial (if implicit) subsidies we pay for homeowners to live in red zone developments?

Re: Project Navigation

kmm — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:40:55 -0000

Where are the fathers? Are they supporting their children or waiting for the taxpayer to pick up the slack?

Re: Burt Hubbard

Peggy C — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:38:46 -0000

Really. Counting homicides and suicides together JUST because guns were involved is just bad math and even worse reporting. People who are suicidal will use whatever means is at their disposal. Most of those won't go out and shoot others first; just themselves. Yes, it's an awful statistic, but it's a story to be researched and reported on its own--NOT lumped in with the horrific criminal use of guns to easily obtain just what one wants and someone else has.
Why not talk about the number explosion of automatic weapons turning up on our streets and in our neighborhoods instead? In civilian life, there's really only two reasons for owning an automatic weapon; criminal activity and an overabundance of testosterone. Can't be bothered to learn how to use a gun? Just spray lots and lots of bullets--eventually you'll finish your job...

Re: Burt Hubbard

Joe T — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:22:14 -0000

Oh, and I should point out, that just because a neighborhood has the highest rate of "gun death"s does not make it the "deadliest neighborhood". Your bias is showing again. There are lots of "deadly" activities besides shooting guns, and a lot of places where deaths happen. In fact, if we want to be honest, to find the "deadliest neighborhood" in any city, all you have to do is grab the phone book, and look up the address of the closest Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.

Re: Burt Hubbard

Joe T — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:07:04 -0000

OK. I like the fact that the reporting is at least "fact based", in that it is based on statistics from gov agencies dealing with these things. But as you point out, "the debate roils over gun laws", and I can't help but see this as a one-sided presentation on that debate.
And frankly, you missed the boat. Treating "gun deaths" as a special category of deaths, and reporting "gun death" statistics is silly, when you think about it. When people want to kill, they'll use the most effective tool at their disposal. Guns are effective at what they were designed for - shooting bullets. Take away guns, and they'll use the next best options. There are lots of ways to commit suicide, and murder. Sleeping pills, poison, knives, hammers, etc. The tool of choice is not the problem, but the choice itself.

The debate is not about how many people die from gunshot wounds (self inflicted or otherwise) in any given location over any given timeframe. It is about the right bear and carry arms. Admittedly, some (perhaps even many) people will abuse that right. But that was just as true when our founding fathers enshrined the right to bear arms into our constitution as it is today. And it really is irrelevent.

Re: Colorado’s Medicaid dental woes

Longwood Dentist — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:01 -0000

Regrettably these types of news stories are all too common across the nation. We're seeing this as a growing trend and concern in our area too. Access to affordable preventative care will be one of the ongoing challenges many families will face and we need to establish community programs and systems to help meet the needs of families and their kids. Thank you for the informative post. www.wekivadental.com

Re: Gun deaths: Suicide rate quadruple homicide rate

off_leash — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:39:47 -0000

Unfortunately, people commit suicide. Trying to make gun-control the focus of suicide prevention is disingenuous. Even in countries where guns are effectively banned, you will find comparable suicide rates to those in Colorado. If people are determined to commit suicide, they will find a way.

Re: Project Navigation

ColoVoice — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:48:59 -0000

Thanks for this excellent reporting. Instead of trying to assign blame -- a province routinely claimed by our elected officials, alas -- you have pulled together relevant and troubling facts, and explained how we got here. I hope that all members of the Colorado Legislature, as well as other key elected and appointed officials, will study this report. You have given them a blueprint for action. Can they surpass their special-interest supporters and come together for the good of the state and our people? The recent record isn't very good. But the stakes never have been higher. Which pathway will we choose? Continued (even accelerated) accusations, brickbats, finger-pointing, petty jealousies, doctrinaire and cliched positions? Or a genuine effort to make our state a leader?

Re: Project Navigation

Bigdirt — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:28:04 -0000

DUH?- - - as long as the focus is on 'getting theirs' instead of individual achievement these so-called leech-like minorities will continue to decline. No easy way to fulfilling lives when people think nothing is FAIR.

Re: Burt Hubbard

jbholston — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:27:53 -0000

This is an awesome piece of work. Thanks for doing it. Sharing it everywhere.

Re: Project Navigation

Jon G — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:27:17 -0000

I do notice that you do not include Native American/Alaskan Natives or Asian/Pacific Islanders in your demographics. Why is that, your own cultural bias? I wish I could have gone to college, but as one of these minorities there were no 'slots' held open for me.

Re: Burt Hubbard

Jack Frost — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:14:47 -0000

Why are we not surprised that our regional PBS would step into class/racial problems by advocating
government solutions to what might very well be natural, unchangeable differences. Unless children are conceived by two responsible
and committed-to-each-other adults who will raise those children in an environment that encourages and rewards
learning and effort, share with those children the warm, joyful, and uplifting rewards of love and respect, and
hold before them the challenge to push themselves to their limits of learning and achievment then what we now have is what you get. As my father used to tell us back in the Great Depression "It's no disgrace to be poor but it is a disgrace to remain poor."

Richard Iron Hammer's (is he a real American Indian or a Churchill convert?) comments are interesting but need some in-depth context. I grew up long ago between the Navajo and Apache Indian Reservations (my grandfather was a small off-reservation trader) in Northern Arizona on what became Route 66. I often heard tourists comment on our environment after driving through the Navajo Reservation between Grants, New Mexico and Flagstaff, Arizona. "How terrible for the US Government to put those poor Indians out in such non-productive desert land." Growing up there I often wondered the same thing. Later in life I read a copy of the "TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & THE NAVAJO TRIBE OF INDIANS / WITH A RECORD OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT LED TO ITS SIGNING" (published by KC Publications, Flagstaff, Az. 1968). I highly recommend that every responsible, thoughtful citizen who is being asked by PBS to support its interpretations of contemporary social, educational, and financial issues to please read it. Then I suggest a drive through that Reservation between, for example, Farmington and Shiprock, New Mexico during the growing season and notice the difference in what's growing on the East side of the Reservation Line and the West side, both of which have the same land and water rights from the San Juan River, but the Navajo farms on the west side were neglected and barren compared to the profit-motivated farmers on the east side. Another read I suggest are comments by John Greenway, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado (Boulder) back in 1969, regarding "guilt-ridden, history-distorting paleface."