Romanoff bites back
House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver, took on the role of media critic in this week’s installment of “Rep. Romanoff Reporting,” his weekly newsletter to supporters.
Lamenting that reporters didn’t write about his news conference to detail accomplishments from the first half of the legislative session while they did publicize a similar event where the GOP pledged to quit playing nice, the speaker offered up a new axiom.
“It may be time to update the old saw about what makes news. Forget ‘man bites dog’; it’s now ‘elephant bites donkey.”‘
Ouch.
Can we quote you on that?
“I’m here to tell you the bad news. That means your $5 holiday turkeys are gone. Buy one, get one free at the grocery store – gone. Or, what’s worse, ladies’ night – gone.”
– Rep. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, during House debate on a bill that would allow grocery stores and other big retailers to resume selling cheap gas
DID YOU KNOW
I-70 stretch may honor Cabrini
The portion of Interstate 70 from Vasquez Boulevard in Denver to the Genesee Park exit in Golden would be renamed “Mother Cabrini Memorial Highway” if House Joint Resolution 1024 is approved.
Mother Cabrini was the first American citizen to be canonized, as Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, by the Roman Catholic Church.
Born July 15, 1850, in the town of San Angelo, Italy, Maria Francesca Cabrini co-founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1880 in Italy.
Unable to speak English and without a place to stay, she immigrated to New York in 1889, eventually establishing a school and orphanage there.
When visiting north Denver in 1902, Mother Cabrini found Italian immigrants in the city living in “deplorable conditions.” That same year, she helped establish Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, and opened a school and orphanage in north Denver.
Later, she established a summer camp for orphans on the property that is now Mother Cabrini Shrine, off I-70 in Golden, part of the designated highway. The site is a religious and tourist attraction, and some visit the shrine to drink the water, which they believe has healing properties.
Sources: Colorado General Assembly; Denver Post archives
