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The C-27J program was a fixed wing aircraft that could carry large transport helicopter sized loads for the Army over longer ranges at greater speeds with more fuel efficiency than a helicopter and could takeoff and land from field airstrips. It did everything a transport helicopter did better in situations where field airstrips were available at both ends, which they frequently are in cargo runs....
Wash Park Prophet - 5:20 p.m. - 7 clicks 
The major snowstorm that hit Denver today has kept everyone indoors, at least for a while. We take it differently. My wife, a Pilates instructor, and my son, an avid cross country runner and soccer player in season, a bouncing off the walls. When they don't get their regular exercise fixes they get an intense physical and emotional craving to work out. My son ranges wildly around the house, ju...
Wash Park Prophet - 8:41 a.m. - 9 clicks
UPDATE: Sen. Brandon Shaffer's release: LONGMONT: Today, Brandon Shaffer put an end to rumors that he would change directions and run in the 6th Congressional District. "While I appreciate the offers of support from those who asked me to consider running in CD6, I live in CD4, I understand CD4, and I plan to represent CD4 in Congress. In truth, this was an easy decision. My wife works at t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 8 clicks
A major snowstorm bearing down on Denver has closed the Colorado General Assembly Friday. Barring anything unexpected, Rep. Laura Bradford (?-Collbran) will drive home this evening, and decide some time this weekend whether or not to disaffiliate from the Republican Party--and if she does, whether to become and independent or, as has been reported a possibility, a Democrat. There's really no...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 9 clicks
Is this Gov. John Hickenlooper's first actual defeat? Denver Business Journal: Pinnacol board vice chairman John Plotkin sent Hickenlooper a letter Thursday morning saying that the company felt it needed to slow down what has been a fast-moving process. Several members of a governor's task force examining the privatization plan had made the complaint that things were moving too quickly at ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 2:23 p.m. - 12 clicks
Via the former Colorado Senator's "protected" Twitter feed, here is a match absolutely, positively made in proper noun Heaven. Dave Schultheis (right), who serves on the state steering committee for Rick Santorum (left). Maybe the frothiest mixture ever concocted: Because we assume Santorum's staff monitors Google, here are some helpful links to articles that help elucidate who's hugging t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 11:41 a.m. - 14 clicks
The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby updates the Rep. Laura Bradford saga: "I'm frustrated and disappointed in the speaker of the House when last Friday on the phone, when we were discussing this, he said, 'You're toast,'" Bradford said. "This isn't about the last seven days. This has been going on for the past 15 months..." Regardless of the department's exoneration of Bradford,...
Colorado Pols - Thu 8:05 a.m. - 13 clicks
You can't roll your eyes much louder than this without pulling a muscle. As the national Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation pulled Planned Parenthood's grant funding this week, its Denver affiliate went rogue, announcing that Planned Parenthood will receive a grant for the upcoming grant cycle, through March of 2013. According to a Facebook post by the Denver affiliate, Komen has grante...
Colorado Pols - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 16 clicks
ABC News --remember, Tom Tancredo is a Republican again! Rick Santorum on Wednesday turned his sights westward, picking up the endorsement of a former Colorado congressman and pledging to remain in the race after his distant third-place showing in Florida. Former Rep. Tom Tancredo endorsed Santorum here calling him "a non-composite" candidate who stands by his convictions rather than chang...
Colorado Pols - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 15 clicks
UPDATE #3: A quick read of HB10-1271 , passed in the aftermath of Rep. Kathleen Curry being forced to contend as a write-in candidate for election, indicates that Rep. Laura Bradford would still need to campaign as a write-in either as an independent or Democratic candidate if she disaffiliates now. Although HB10-1271 reduced the amount of time a candidate must be registered with a give...
Colorado Pols - Wed 10:21 a.m. - 14 clicks
Check out the press release we just received from Mitt Romney's campaign: Boston, MA - Mitt Romney today announced the support of the members of the Douglas County Colorado Board of Education. "I'm truly grateful to earn the support of the members of the Douglas County Board of Education for my education reform agenda," said Mitt Romney. "They share my vision of taking control of our children...
Colorado Pols - Wed 9:03 a.m. - 15 clicks
I will update them as they all come in tonight. Just Reporting the numbers - I will let the armchair quarterbacks give us their epic wisdom. CD 1 Degette Raised 141,733.00 COH 166,866.52 Raised to Date 407,882.16 CD 2 Polis Raised 24,552.25, COH 165,315.41 Raised to Date 695,193.54 CD 3 Pace Raised 207,632.25, COH 341,430.06 Raised to Date 475,1...
Colorado Pols - Wed 8:41 a.m. - 11 clicks
Returns from 79 percent of Florida's precincts showed Romney with 47 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Gingrich, the former House speaker. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had 13 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul 7 percent. From here . Next up is the Nevada caucus, a week long event in Maine starting Saturday, and a week from today Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota Republicans get a sa...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 7:24 p.m. - 12 clicks
UPDATE: The House is convening an ethics committee to try to sort this out from their end, as the Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby reports: The panel is to investigate whether Bradford improperly invoked legislative privilege in a recent traffic stop where she had been drinking, but was not issued a citation for driving under the influence of alcohol. The panel is t...
Colorado Pols - Tue 3:48 p.m. - 17 clicks
UPDATE #2: Colorado Independent: The Perlmutter campaign responded in the wake of the announcement with a release that underlined Coors' wealth and his support for strict anti-abortion personhood laws, which would make illegal abortion in all cases and would even outlaw some of the most popular contraception, such as the pill. "Ed looks forward to a spirited debate with Joe Coors. There c...
Colorado Pols - Tue 11:09 a.m. - 17 clicks
UPDATE: The Denver Police Department promises "significant new information" about Rep. Bradford's case at a press conference scheduled for 3:30PM. Developing. ----- State Bill Colorado summarizes today's update to the story of Rep. Laura Bradford's skirting of a DUI charge last week in downtown Denver, due to a constitutional provision meant to prevent the arrest of legislators for p...
Colorado Pols - Tue 7:20 a.m. - 14 clicks
Two Colorado education and the economy stories to deal with today. First is the outrage of a soaring University of Colorado tuition increase being used in part to pay for raises for six figure administrators and bureaucrats.CU tuition hike funded......
Dave Chandler - Mon 11:22 a.m. - 15 clicks
Denver occupiers took to the streets last night in solidarity with OCCUPYs nationwide to protest the brutal January 27 clampdown on an attempted squat in Oakland, California. My favorite chant of the evening was “THEY SAY GET BACK, WE SAY FUCK THAT!” but by the march’s end it was DPD officers who were told to [...]...
Not My Tribe - Mon 9:21 a.m. - 17 clicks
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he's waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi's numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado's CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congressi...
SquareState - Sun 4:02 p.m. - 12 clicks
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he’s waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi’s numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado’s CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congres...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Sun 12:23 a.m. - 12 clicks
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, has upheld the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a misdemeanor to make false statements made about the military honors one has obtained. It did so by first clarifying that the statute is being interpreted narrowly, in an effort to preserve its constitutionality. As construed, it applies only to st...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 27 - 14 clicks
OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Ft Carson’s environmental PR team held what’s called a “draft Environmental Assessment,” prerequisite to their addition of a Combat Aviation Brigade to America’s “Best Hometown in the Army”. Except for a car-dealer and realtor giving their attaboys, the citizens comment section weighed solidly AGAINST expansion of war-making and ...
Not My Tribe - Jan 27 - 16 clicks
Conventional wisdom is that Mitt Romney has a far better organization than Newt Gingrich, and that’s a big part of why he’ll be the nominee. The coming terrain is supposed to benefit him, too. One friend of mine who's an expert at watching polls , Tweeted the other day, You look at the contests coming up after Florida... Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine... Caucuses, West, and North... M...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 23 - 2 clicks
There is a rating system for schools in the Denver Public Schools system (including charter schools). The top ranking "distinguished" goes to schools that manage to produce excellent academic performance without being meaningfully selective in admissions. This ranking was awarded to West Denver Prep at Highland, Lake, Federal and Harvey Park locations, and to the Denver School of Science and ...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 22
We shouldn't be sending parents who cause a child's death through a mere moment of neglect, even gross neglect, to thirty years in prison. But, that is what Colorado law provides. This kind of hard time, which will cost Colorado taxpayers almost a million dollars and which wastes a mother's life, is grossly excessive for a death resulting from unintentional conduct. Is the woman had set out t...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 21
Wonder if Congressman Doug Lamborn , proud Conservative and Congressman-for-Life from Colorado Springs, could explain further why we don't need the EPA at his next event. And if the free market is so virtuous, he could also explain why SUNCOR Energy shouldn't use any of its enormous profits to contain the toxic fluids still leaking into Denver's waterways. Suncor Energy Inc., Canada's ...
SquareState - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
In Governor John Hickenlooper's (Democrat of course) state of the state speech given yesterday at the Colorado capitol building, the governor put his support behind efforts to create same-sex civil unions in Colorado. ...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 13
