Thu Blog: The State of the Real Estate Market, plus Trinidad Rodriguez

IS IT A BUYER'S MARKET? IS IT A SELLER'S MARKET? I've got my friend and realtor Mike Potarf from the Chad Madlom Team on the show at 1 to talk about it. Find Mike and let him help you buy or sell here.

TRINIDAD RODRIGUEZ WANTS TO BE DENVER MAYOR He's a Denver native with a passion for affordable housing. Find out more about Trinidad by clicking here.

WHY ARE PEOPLE LEAVING COLORADO? This is a very well done video about our population growth and slowing. Very well done.

GET READY FOR A MASSIVE PROPERTY TAX HIKE Home values have skyrocketed and this is the first year that our homes will be revalued by government for tax purposes and the jump could be as high as 30% for some. This is going to be cataclysmic along with inflation on people with modest budgets and further exacerbate our rental situation as landlords pass along property taxes to their tenants. The Legislature is working on this, but they don't have any real plan yet. Just get ready for a heart attack when open that bill.

HEY LOOK, KYLE CLARK ONLY KNOWS THERE IS ONE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR And if you guesses it was the Republican Andy Rougeot you win a prize! Kyle spent some time fact checking Andy's recent interview and I've been watching his Twitter feed for the rest of the fact checking on the field of thousands and oddly enough, there isn't any. This as 9News has decided to exclude Rougeot from their debate because HE ISN'T TAKING TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN HIS CAMPAIGN. I could not make this up if I tried. Read more here.

SEAN KEELER SAYS WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKING ABOUT THE ROCKIES And it pains me to share this because baseball is honestly my favorite sport but DAMN Sean Keeler is spot on with this column taking Dick Monfort to the woodshed for being the kind of owner he is compared to the new ownership group at the Broncos. It's time for Dick to sell the team to someone who wants to win a World Series, not just go .500 on the year.

THE SEX CLUB WILL BE SHUT DOWN FOR HAVING SEX IN THE WRONG PLACE Not gonna lie, I am amused by this story of the sex club in Centennial called The Office which is now being sued and shut down for allowing sex in a part of the city where it is not allowed. This line from our friends at Fox 31 made me lol this morning:

“There was one night that there were some people making out in the parking lot, and we were having some car issues and they seemed very annoyed by us talking to them,” Hodge added. “We just thought, to be honest with you, that it was like an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting going on over there. We had no idea what was happening.”

No word on if AA meetings are zoned for that area.

WHO HASN'T BEEN BROUGHT DOWN BY THE SEARCH FOR PAPPY And that's not some colloquial slang for parent, I'm talking about the 23 Year Old Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon that is EXTREMELY hard to lay your hands on. Seems an investigation by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission found that Executive Director Steve Marks and five other agency officials had diverted sought-after bourbons, including Pappy Van Winkle’s 23-year-old whiskey, for their personal use. You would not believe how valuable some of these bourbons are but I have a story about how hard they are to get. Marks is denying any impropriety even though he admits getting preferential treatment by vendors because of his position.

THIS IS WHY FETTERMAN'S HEALTH WAS A PART OF THE CAMPAIGN And this is not some sort of dunk, but the Senator spent last night in the hospital after feeling lightheaded at a Democratic retreat. No sign of a new stroke, but someone's health matters. I hope he makes a full recovery.

THE KNIVES ARE OUT FOR TRUMP At least according to this story from Politico but I think it seems reasonable all things considered. Read this quote to get a feel for what's happening in the donor class of the GOP:

“I don’t think it is fair to call Donald Trump a damaged candidate,” said Eric Levine, a top GOP fundraiser who has been calling on the party to move on from Trump since the 2020 election and the uprising at the Capitol. “He is a metastasizing cancer who if he is not stopped is going to destroy the party. Donald Trump is a loser. He is the first president since Hoover to lose the House, the Senate and the presidency in a single term. Because of him Chuck Schumer is the Leader Schumer, and the progressive agenda is threatening to take over the country. And he is probably the only Republican in the country, if not the only person in the country, who can’t beat Joe Biden.”

It's amazing to see how far he's come in alienating people who enthusiastically supported him last time.

COLLEGES ARE NOW TOO FAR LEFT FOR...SEAN PENN? Wow, just wow. Welcome to the red pill, Sean.

HEY HELICOPTER PARENTS, YOU MAY BE KILLING YOUR KID EARLY This is super interesting because we haven't really seen the LONG term effects of the sort of parenting we've been doing since the 1990s where we protect our children from any harm or hurt or challenge. A new study showed a connection between having overprotective parents and early death so maybe let Junior fail once in a while instead?

THE COLORADO HEALING FUND IS BEING CRITICIZED AGAIN And I actually have sympathy for the Healing Fund as they try to be there for victims in Colorado in the aftermath of terrible events. They are being criticized for sitting on $1.6 million dollars of donation, although $1.3 million has been earmarked to go out, while $500,000 has already been distributed to the victims of the Club Q shooting. The non-profit is defending itself by rightly pointing out that they use best practices used by other similar event based needs organizations to make sure that there will be money for the long term needs of victims as well. Perhaps they are using TOO MUCH caution and working too slowly, but I don't think there is anything nefarious here.

SPEAKING OF CHARITY CRITICISM I would be remiss if I did not mention the story of Russell Wilson's charity and the criticism being levied at it, this one rightly so in my opinion. The Why Not You Foundation made a critical mistake by paying some people already associated with Russell Wilson to run the charity. They are being paid exorbitant salaries for the size of the charity. And a new report showed some pretty unflattering data about how much is actually spent on services versus administrative overhead. The Foundation has responded that they have helped raise millions for other charitable endeavors and that those partnerships would not show up in their IRS forms. They are right about that last part, but the salaries are egregious for what the Foundation does. It is crucial that you have someone who is knowledgeable about the ins and outs and PR of having a foundation and this feels like what needs to happen here.

RIP TO ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC SONGWRITERS OF A GENERATION I am saddened by this one because I love some of the songs he's written, but Burt Bacharach was 94 years old. Read this to see how many great, great songs he wrote over his career.

IRAN IS THE ARMS DEALER TO MIDDLE EAST TROUBLE MAKERS Our pal Cliff May has a great column about how Iran is providing arms to all the bad actors we are currently trying to help contain. From the Houthi rebels who are trying to overturn the government of Yemen to Russia using Iranian drones to kill Ukrainians, Iran is the biggest arms dealer in the world to the worse regimes in the world. Read more here.

THE FBI IS NOW RELYING ON THE BIASED SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOR LEADS The SPLC is a garbage organization though it was well intentioned when it began. Beset by leadership issues and political wrangling, it has no value in deciding what is and what is not a hate group. But apparently the FBI didn't get the message about the SPLC's anti-conservative bias before it created a memo casting aspersions on Catholics. Read more here.

HARD LEFT DARK MONEY GROUP HIT WITH DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS I find this wildly amusing. It seems that a dark money group called the New Venture Fund, which took in almost a billion dollars it used to do things like call Republican candidates racists, has been hit with two separate complaints alleging racism from the management. Heh.

IS THIS YOU ON VALENTINES DAY? This is so not me I almost can't relate but it is funny.

A FORMER CASE MANAGER AT A CHILDRENS GENDER CLINIC SAYS WE MUST STOP THIS And she's no right wing nut, she offers her bonafides at the beginning of the article by describing herself as "a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders" before explaining how she went from true believer to staunch opponent in "affirming" gender dysphoria with meds for kids. There are some shocking things in her article but I hope they begin to open the eyes of those who blindly want to let little children make permanently life altering decisions that they can't even begin to understand.

IF YOU MISSED OUT STATE OF THE UNION KOA-CAST Arod put together this very funny sizzle reel to show you what you missed!

SOME SUPER SICK FAST FOOD SECRETS And I mean super sick because a MrBrunch burger would make me super sick. Click here or watch below.

THIS REPORTER ISN'T GOING TO BE ASKED BACK TO THE SUPERBOWL After messing with one of the game's biggest stars like this. Click here or watch below.

IMAGINE JUST LIVING IN THE MOMENT LIKE THIS DUDE Who didn't feel the need to break out his cell phone as Lebron James broke the all time scoring record.

or these people before cell phones were cameras.

A GAME MOCK UP IS NOT THE GAME SCORE Media outlets of all stripes create mockups of how graphics are going to look, and depending on who makes them, they pick a winner. Now one of those mockups has leaded online and people are betting that the score shown will be the score of the game. You people need help. Click here or watch below.

ANDY REID IS VERY SELF AWARE Click here or watch below.

DO YOU STAY UP LATE TO STICK IT TO THE IMAGINARY MAN? That's what this dude thinks. Watch below or click here.


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