Hazlehurst’s Blog

31. August 2010

Sean Paige, Mike Kazmierski and High School Confidential!

Remember high school? Remember the cliques, the jealousies, the maneuvering to become one of the popular kids, the incredible nastiness over trivia? Remember how distressing it was when two or three of your friends got into a particularly nasty fight, and all of them demanded that you take their side? Remember wishing that your parents [...]

26. August 2010

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Utilities employee wins World Series of Poker

Suppose you’re at the final table in the World Series of Poker. Play has gone on for hours, and it’s just you and another guy at the table. The pots aren’t six figures, or seven figures - they’re eight figures. You’re holding your own, and you see that your opponent is tired and distracted. His concentration [...]

18. August 2010

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Tonight: Debates, dispensaries and the demon weed

For free entertainment, head for the downtown library to listen to Sean Paige, Tom Gallagher, Mark Waller, and Dan May square off in passionate debate at 7:00 p.m. The subject:Marijuana dispensaries. Will there be tendentious position-defining? Meaningless posturing? Bewildered, clueless politicians and/or law enforcement officials? A packed house, thanks to folks with a dog in [...]

11. August 2010

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The Primary is over, now the fun begins

Thanks to would-be Sheriff Jake Shirk, I narrowly missed a perfect primary prediction record. Had I picked Shirk, I would have made a perfect zero - but even the best prognosticators sometimes fall short. Forced to choose between two experienced, intelligent, and eminently well-qualified candidates, Democrats went with Michael Bennet. The incumbent Senator has [...]

10. August 2010

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My primary predictions

Here are my picks to win the today’s primary election - and you can put your money on them! I won’t, because I know my limits as a prognosticator. Romanoff v. Bennet Polls, power and cash flow all say Bennet - so I’m going with Romanoff. While in the legislature, Romanoff attended every dreary Dem event in [...]

30. July 2010

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Pam Shockley-Zalabak for mayor?

Today’s Business Journal features a story about the mayor’s race. We list the candidates, announced and unannounced, and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses and list their campaign themes. We omitted UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak from the list, because it appears highly improbabable that she would leave her present position for four years of ill-paid hurly-burly at [...]