"The Nudge"
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02/27/2009 There is a God
This is a joyous day that will live forever in the annals of journalism.
02/26/2009 Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
A private citizen reacts to the Rocky Mountain News going out of business by emailing the newspaper with his reaction to their set-up of Douglas Bruce.
02/09/2008 Email From Alice Ann Larsen
For whatever it is worth I would have kicked that photographer too. He displayed no reverence for prayer by taking pictures.
02/08/2008 Leaders grin and bear it amid legislators` gaffes
The session, which ends in May, hasn`t seen this kind of turmoil since the spring of 2006, when May was promoted to his current post after House Minority Leader Joe Stengel, R-Littleton, resigned from leadership over excessive per diem billing.
02/07/2008 LISTON’S COMMENTS ON UNWED TEENS BLASTED
“In my parents’ day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they were called what they are.” Liston said of unmarried teen parents. “They’re sluts. And I don’t mean just the women. I mean the men, too.”
02/04/2008 Get off of Bruce`s back
I see that Douglas Bruce is back on the horizon. I can tell because the newspaper is on his back again.
02/04/2008 `No turning a blind eye` at Statehouse
Garcia resigned Friday morning after a lobbyist alleged in a meeting with the House speaker earlier in the week that Garcia had been sexually inappropriate with her after a fundraiser.
02/01/2008 Censorship
Now that a member of the General Assembly is being investigated for sexually inappropriate behavior, will there be another witch hunt with accusations, and will you censure this person?
01/31/2008 Ala. senator won`t be punished for punch
A Republican state senator who punched a Democratic colleague in the head on the Senate floor will not be punished, a legislative panel said Thursday.
01/31/2008 Doug Bruce`s mistake: Challenging the media
State Rep. Doug Bruce is hanging in there, tough and defiant. But surely by now, he must realize you don`t take on the media. After all, there is good reason for the old saying, "You don`t pick a fight with the guy who buys (printer`s) ink by the barrel."
01/27/2008 Statehouse has had its share of angry moments
Did you hear the one about the legislator who was carried from the podium because he was drunk? Or the time a senator almost punched a future governor? What about the former House speaker who said he wanted to beat up another representative?
01/23/2008 Considerations
As I quoted in an earlier email, "With malice towards none, with charity for all..." Let`s bind up our wounds, end this mini-war, and work together for the public good, as you offered.
01/23/2008 Memo from Legislative Council re Public Disciplinary Action
The memo from Legislative Council, which searched House records since 1880. There has NEVER been any recorded public disciplinary action in the Journal.
01/15/2008 Email From Mike Boerman
Shame on your photographer Javier Manzano for his extreme disrespect in trying to take someone`s picture while they were PRAYING.
01/15/2008 Email From Jack Shelton
While I am a resident of Texas, and therefore not one of your constituents, I would like to commend you on your boldness in enforcing a standard that has been all but forgotten in today`s society.