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  • Jim Bishop, Southern Colorado castle builder, dies at 80

    12/07/2024 3:42:04 PM PST · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 18 replies
    Colorado Public Radio ^ | November 21, 2024 | Shanna Lewis
    The man who created one of Southern Colorado’s most beloved and quirky attractions has died, according to a social media post. James “Jim” Roland Bishop began building his monumental stone castle high atop a hillside in the forest of the Wet Mountains in 1969 on land in rural Custer County that he purchased ten years earlier, as a teenager. An ironworker by trade, the Pueblo resident labored on weekends, mostly singlehandedly on what was intended to be a small cottage. More than five decades later it stands about 165 feet tall, boasts stained glass windows and is topped by a...
  • Dems Shy From Town Hall Anger

    06/18/2010 5:56:43 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 32 replies · 796+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2010 | Donald Lambro
    <p>WASHINGTON -- If you were hoping for a repeat of those town hall meetings last summer where Democrats were confronted by angry voters who opposed President Obama's health care bill, well, forget it. They're cancelled.</p> <p>Democrats passed government-run Obamacare, despite strong grassroots opposition in their states and districts, and now these so-called "public servants" are unwilling to go through the democratic ritual of having to listen to what dissatisfied voters think of them now.</p>