Did Merrick Garland End Our Democracy?

City planning officials quietly released an unusual edict this fall that has loud implications for the future of several long-overlooked west Denver neighborhoods. Denver’s Community Planning and Development announced that until further notice, its staff would not recommend approval for any rezoning applications in six neighborhoods if they sought to allow developers to build higher-density projects, like row homes, on single-family home properties. City officials saw that Oct.

Facing a massive budget deficit and a workforce that is decreasingly bound by state lines, Gov. Jared Polis has pitched a solution that’s been raised twice in recent memory at the Colorado Capitol: spinning off the state’s stake in Pinnacol Assurance. Privatizing the quasi-governmental insurance company would mean pulling the state out of the workers’ compensation game, while raising serious one-time money to help plug the budget — an idea that Polis hasn’t yet sold lawmakers on. Pinnacol serves as the workers’ compensation insurer of last resort for the state, ensuring that high-risk industries, such as roofing, can meet the legal requirement for coverage.

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Great talk with Malcolm Nance on the domestic threat of Donald Trump and his followers from Proud Boys to violent Christian Fundamentalists. The international threat of Putin, Erdogan, Orban, Iran, Hamas & how it's all tied together, part of an op for former KGB agent Putin to put the Soviet Empire--hell the Tsarist Empire--back together. And, sadly, as relevant in light of the deadly attack in New Orleans by a man radicalized by ISIS, was our discussion of Malcolm's past doing intelligence work in the Middle East to combat terrorism by radicalized Islamic Fundamentalists, which he covered in his book, "Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe." Check it out!

A change in strategy to keep the gravy train rolling shows that even the industry itself knows that it’s not “clean and affordable” which is what they’ve been telling us.

Few American institutions have fallen from grace as dramatically as the Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s time to do something about it.