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As the NTSB begins its probe into the causes of the mid-air small plane collision<\/a> that occured over Denver last week, all the local pols are getting in on the act.<\/p>\n

“What the mayor’s trying to get to the bottom of is what are things that can be done to give a level of confidence that this is very unlikely to happen in the future,” [Mayor’s spokesperson] Hudson said.<\/p>\n

Let’s see, it’s happened twice in the past three decades — that sounds like it’s pretty unlikely to happen again, say, tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Not to downplay is all or anything, but surely there are more immediate (if less publicity-generating) public safety concerns that Mayor Webb should be giving his attention to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the NTSB begins its probe into the causes of the mid-air small plane collision that occured over Denver last week, all the local pols are getting in on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2161,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/01\/im_a_travellin.html","url_meta":{"origin":4159,"position":0},"title":"I’m a travellin’ man …","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Mar-02 2:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My trip home was relatively uneventful. 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