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Posted on 03/25/2026 5:20:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ocky Mountain high, Colorado,” sang John Denver, AKA Henry Duetschendorf Jr. in 1972. Those were heady days for Colorado. Ski resorts, the Rockies, natural beauty aplenty and the promise of new beginnings enticed many, including me, to move to Colorado. My stay on the west slope was brief, and over the years, Colorado has descended from a more-or-less business-friendly and affordable state to a Democrat People’s Republic, increasingly crowded and hostile to civil liberties and prosperity.
I occasionally travel to Colorado Springs for service on my recumbent trike and bike at the best recumbent shop in this part of the country. The traffic on I-35 is always horrific, driving through Denver is a nightmare and road construction and delays are eternal. I yet have friends and family in Colorado. My family worries about entrusting their still-infant kids to Colorado schools when the time comes. They also worry about Colorado’s increasingly draconian anti-liberty/gun laws.
They have other worries too. Colorado is facing a $1.5+ billion dollar budget shortfall, a half-billion more than expected. Republicans blame Democrat overspending. Democrats blame Republicans for noticing.
Coloradans are also noticing increasing power outages. Colorado currently is 26th in the nation for power outages and is 27th for the number of power customers affected. At Complete Colorado, Jon Caldera has noticed—when his lights have been on. He’s noticed that Colorado can be windy.
But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.”
Caldera is suspicious:
Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no.
Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day
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I suspect that the power companies have been squeezed so much that they can no longer maintain their power lines and safe space around them. Maybe due to cost or regulations.
The enviro rules have changed such that they cannot properly clear brush from around/under power lines.
Happening in NM, too.
I have a stretch of mountain land with a large electrical easement across it. For 50 years, the utility has dutifully cleared it.
The utility cannot do so legally, even with my permission. I can, legally to make way for cattle. So I have. Mind you I don’t drive cattle from one end of my fence line to the other for no reason. But I might see reason to.
Colorado used to be solid red. Same with NM and Calif. When they change they don’t go back. Voter ID and immigration reform won’t change it. We’ll be lucky to keep Nevada purple as Oregon and Washington are lost too.
A generation of education turnaround could help. So could more conservative economic growth but only if our representatives fight for it.
Interesting article & posts. BUMP.
The world is ever changing and has been since it was formed.
Enjoy your allotted time as best you can and help move things
along as best you can. jmo
Key component: universal mail-in balloting.
Gov. poleass will save us! By raising taxes.
Someone remind me how those fleeing CA are conservative.
It is hardly surprising that CO has descended into a third world sh@thole after being Californicated. Progressive fiscal and eco zealot policies eventually drag every state down.
Might want to add "eliminating vote fraud" to that list, as that is how democrats tend to hold power once they've got it. No amount of quality campaigning or education of the next generation will help as long as dead people, semi-lucid drug addicts, even less lucid people in nursing homes, and illegal aliens, keep "voting" for democrats.
Are they supposed to be?
My daughter moved to Denver 10 years ago. I visited twine a year. It was clean and safe. A few sketchy areas to be avoided like all cities….but very, very few street people, panhandlers, etc., visible in downtown. After a couple of years the deterioration started becoming noticeable. Getting worse each year. She finally moved out last fall. It seemed to be turning into a 3rd world $hithole. In 5 years it will be San Francisco
Simple choice, you can either trim around poles to remove the flammables or just cut the power every time the air is forecast to move.
Eco nazis will always choose one direction and never the other.
I-35?
I’m still here but understand why people leave. Politics and politicians have created costs that are through the roof. We spend something like a dollar a gallon for a train project to and from nowhere that has not laid one piece of rail. Ayn Rand explained it well.
“Are they supposed to be?”
Every time I complain about CA refugees turning red states blue, someone will criticize me and tell me that it’s the conservatives that are leaving CA. It seems to me, those fleeing CA bring their communist voting habits with them.
The good news is
Marijuana is legal
The bad news is
Marijuana is legal
Democrats destroy every state they control.
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