Colorado’s legislative session begins on Wednesday; I’m in political junkie heaven.
Yes, I know that there is a GOP primary going on in New Hampshire, but there is little that I can say about that, since I have never understood how Republicans think. It is amusing to see Romney finally getting called on his claims of being a jobs creator, however. Corporate raiders don’t create jobs. Corporate raiders destroy jobs. Romney is a jobs destroyer, but that doesn’t keep corporate apologists from defending his record.
Meanwhile, back in Colorado, the legislative session hasn’t even begun and both sides are carping at each other. Let’s hope they can keep the fireworks from blowing the gold dome off of the capital building. Tensions are even higher than usual, with the GOP still smarting from losing the battle of the maps.
As usual, the GOP wants to reduce regulations and the DEMs want to create jobs in Colorado. The two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, but both sides act as though they are. From the list of proposed bills, it seems that this legislature is all about recycling. Each side plans to introduce many of the bills that were killed by the other side in 2011. Who was it that said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result?
Charles Ashby reported in the Grand Junction Sentinel today that Bradford and King plan to introduce a bill that will change municipal regulations to allow pine beetle killed lumber to be used in framing of buildings. I don’t know enough about the structural integrity of lumber milled from trees that were killed by pine beetles to weigh in on the issue. If there is no degradation of structural integrity, this seems like a good idea. Maybe some of my engineering readers could post a comment and inform us all? I do find it amusing that the party of local control is trying to use the state to tell local governments what their building codes should look like, regardless of the answer to the integrity issue. Or is THAT the integrity issue?
Yes, I know that there is a GOP primary going on in New Hampshire, but there is little that I can say about that, since I have never understood how Republicans think. It is amusing to see Romney finally getting called on his claims of being a jobs creator, however. Corporate raiders don’t create jobs. Corporate raiders destroy jobs. Romney is a jobs destroyer, but that doesn’t keep corporate apologists from defending his record.
Meanwhile, back in Colorado, the legislative session hasn’t even begun and both sides are carping at each other. Let’s hope they can keep the fireworks from blowing the gold dome off of the capital building. Tensions are even higher than usual, with the GOP still smarting from losing the battle of the maps.
As usual, the GOP wants to reduce regulations and the DEMs want to create jobs in Colorado. The two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive, but both sides act as though they are. From the list of proposed bills, it seems that this legislature is all about recycling. Each side plans to introduce many of the bills that were killed by the other side in 2011. Who was it that said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result?
Charles Ashby reported in the Grand Junction Sentinel today that Bradford and King plan to introduce a bill that will change municipal regulations to allow pine beetle killed lumber to be used in framing of buildings. I don’t know enough about the structural integrity of lumber milled from trees that were killed by pine beetles to weigh in on the issue. If there is no degradation of structural integrity, this seems like a good idea. Maybe some of my engineering readers could post a comment and inform us all? I do find it amusing that the party of local control is trying to use the state to tell local governments what their building codes should look like, regardless of the answer to the integrity issue. Or is THAT the integrity issue?
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