Aspen Journalism and the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network have worked together to compile all of the 2011 campaign contributions made to Colorado’s congressional candidates from donors who call the Roaring Fork River valley home. The source of the information is the Federal Election Commission.... Read more →
Cheeseburger Logic: What’s Happened To Small Business In America?
Cheeseburger Logic: a blog about small business and truth; about entrepreneurship in the face of large corporate competition; and about American grit and the impact a single individual can have in the great American political landscape. It’s about fifteen minutes of fame; about changing the American... Read more →
Federal Accountability – the pursuit continues…
Last year, as one part of the mission of Common Sense Alliance, I prepared a report to the Colorado Transportation Legislation Review Committee, a group made up of state legislators charged with overseeing state transportation projects. The general perspective of the report was that the state... Read more →
Collapse of Federal Funding Oversight
It was in 1970 that an Aspen city council first asked the State of Colorado to hold off on the expansion of Highway 82 to four lanes so that they could study mass transit as an alternative to highway construction. Forty years later there will still be a traffic jam at the entrance to town – despite... Read more →
Rise Of The Fourth Reich
In comment #2, Post blogger infowars provides an excerpt from a noted conspiracy website as proof that Nazis are afoot in the European Union; “The fact that the EU was a brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, formulated as a means of preserving dictatorial power and then implemented... Read more →
Inquiring Minds
Take the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Health Care Reform Survey; 15 questions concerning Access, Affordability and Payment Issues. Read More →
Give Me Your Huddled Masses
“I say the solution is simple; make legal immigration easier, faster, cheaper and unlimited,” writes Sue Gray in comment #25. Read More →
TEN REASONS WHY MEXICANS CAPTURED AMERICA: AND AMERICANS LOST
By Frosty Wooldridge Anyone looking at present day Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago and New York City—cannot help but see and hear that Americans have lost America. Americans surrendered their language and culture to Mexicans streaming across their borders like... Read more →
No Monopoly On Fraud
The debate is heating up over at Frosty Wooldridge’s post on immigrant anchor babies (Part 3) as anti-immigration advocate Mike McGarry gets in on the action. “In the Denver region, things got so ridiculous that U.S. citizens in custody for criminal acts caught on fast,” he writes in comment #11,... Read more →
Might Need More Holes
TV Aspen’s Jim Laurence reports that with recovery from the recession expected to take at least two or three years, belt tightening will continue in Pitkin County. Read More →