Top fire chiefs and administrators with the South Adams County Fire Department, along with some of their board members, have regularly taken their spouses along to winter conferences in Florida and fall conferences in Colorado’s high country, billing taxpayers for their spouses’ meals and other expenses, and extending their stays before and after conferences.
The U.S. Postal Service will pause a plan to reroute mail from the Western Slope to Denver after dozens of Senators from both parties protested the changes.
Protest of USPS plan to move mail from Grand Junction to Denver may have been successful Read More »
A child protection caseworker in Colorado who gets caught falsifying records or lying about checking on children in one county can get a job in another county. And then another.
Paul Schlagel’s family was one of the many Volga German families who came to Colorado more than a century ago and grew the crop they knew: sugar beets. Their first sugar beet crop in northern Colorado was harvested in 1911. His father purchased the farm from his mother and began farming on the current farm in 1963. Next year will be his 50th crop.
What would happen if the U.S. military needed 1 million people in the Armed Forces but decided to cap domestic enlistment at 750,000 U.S. citizens and to recruit the rest abroad? Or what would happen if U.S. policy was designed to import 25 percent of its lawyers or teachers from elsewhere in the world, not because this country lacks people who are interested in and capable of pursuing those professions, but simply because the U.S. would rather hire foreigners for those jobs? That would be absurd—and it happens to be exactly how the system for training and hiring doctors in America operates today.
Why don’t U.S. medical schools produce more medical doctors? Read More »
The contributions of immigrants have enriched our country’s strength and diversity, a fact that we should all appreciate.
Devotional: What the Old and New Testament have to say on immigration Read More »
U.S. stocks powered higher Wednesday while Treasury yields and the dollar slipped, as investors picked through a crucial April inflation report that could add further fuel to the market’s recent spring rally.
S&P 500 hits record high, Dow eyes 40,000 for first time on slowing inflation data Read More »
In just nine years, the oldest Gen-Xers will reach Social Security’s normal retirement age of 67. But they have a rude awakening when they learn that the program’s trust fund is empty, leaving it able to pay out only as much in benefits as it takes from the paychecks of those then working.
Greszler: Counting on Social Security to fund your retirement? Think again Read More »
Two young Black girls went before Denver City Council to ask for help for their school. Instead, they became the victims of a racist tirade.
Denver Elementary students face racist slurs during City Council meeting Read More »
The pro-Palestinian protests on the Auraria Campus have cost it nearly $300,000, campus officials reported Tuesday.
Auraria Campus officials decline to provide security details as protest encampment grows Read More »
