Editor's column

The current State Government is making efforts to erode our privacy. They want to know what you are buying online so that they can tax you for it.

Currently there are several bills making their way through the Colorado House and Senate – on behalf of Govenor Ritter. I am especially referring to HB1192 and HB1193. Businesses all across Colorado will be affected if these bills get signed into law. And while they might eventually provide a short-term increase in tax revenue for the state, the mid-term and long-term impact of these bills is significantly different.

Christmas is finally here. I can only imagine how relieved all those kids that it is finally time to unwrap all those presents that are under tree.

Over the last few days I had some "interesting" encounters with RTD Denver bus drivers. Besides safety issues, one of the incidents involved an RTD Denver Bus driver showing the middle finger ...

A friend recently suggested a new service called “Angie’s List” to me. What is Angie’s list did I ask and I got the following reply: Angie's List is a service that helps to find high quality contractors, service companies and doctors.

If your house in Highlands Ranch was built in the late 80s or early 90s you probably know how bad the windows from back then are. If you are in the market for new windows, check out this little trick to save $$$.

The mortgage industry and bad lending habits have seen the foreclosure rates go up across the nation. The real estate bubble has bursted in many areas or at least is shrinking quite a bit. Highlands Ranch is no exception and even though we are not seeing those huge drops in house prices compared to California, Nevada, or Arizona we still get our fair share of abuse.

ABRA Auto Body & Glass in Highlands Ranch did fail to impress us on a second occasion to give them our business. Here is a business review that explains why we will not be return customers to ABRA Highlands Ranch.

It’s that time of the year again. Things are are finally slowing down and the year 2007 comes to an end with the Christmas Holiday as well as you can almost start counting the remaining days of the year on hand (almost there). I’d like to take the opportunity and to wish you very happy holidays no matter if you are celebrating a religious holiday or if you are just using this time of the year to bring the family together for some quality time.

No, at the time of this writing it is not raining in Highlands Ranch. I am sitting in Seattle, Washington and it rains cats and dogs. It is actually raining non-stop since last night and yesterday it was raining most time of the day – with just a few interruptions. I don’t mind rain occasionally, but this constant rain – I cannot understand how people can live here.