QUID HAS HEARD that Aurora won’t escape the wrath of Hurricane Sandy et al after all. Seems that the folks at Xcel Energy, the people who bring you utility bills and marketing, and sometimes power, developed a serious case of sympathy after Sandy tore up the East Coast. Xcelarators said local power-line crews are leaving this week for Charleston, W.Va., to help the American Electric Power Co. restore power to millions sitting in the dark. Xcel is sending 38 employees from here. Given that power outages here in Aurora and surrounding parts can sometimes last forever even when those 38 employees are on the job providing the Xcelent service we all know and appreciate, Quid surmises we are toast if you turn on the dryer and the oven at the same time. So please don’t.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that Boulder is tilting at vagrant windmills again. Seems the Republic’s lawmaking comrades have decided that homeless people are no fun en masse, make it hard for Volvo’s to cross the street and are bad tippers to boot. So fed up with so many vagrants — not counting the thousands who are CU students, the Pilates crowd who stand outside so they don’t sweat before their workout, and the cafe patrons who didn’t make reservations before heading to The Kitchen — that they’ve decided to outlaw them. Police have their work cut out for them, trying to identify who among the scruffy, vagrant-looking itinerants is homeless, and which ones are just away from home.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that Colorado is clearly still up for grabs in the presidential race. It seems that Dems are so worried about Colorado going for Romney that they sent out the really big dog to try and save the day: Bill Clinton. Obviously the effort to reel-in the Centennial State’s nine electoral votes is too important for a mere presidential candidate. Smelling blood, Quid would expect an immediate visit from an equally potent conservative superhero to try and snatch Colorado away from Team Obama. George W. Bush. No? OK, how about Sarah Palin? Well, there’s Rush Limbaugh. Probably not. Eastwood? Akin? The Osmonds? Does anyone that people like support Romney?

AND QUID HAS HEARD that Aurora has almost always got a tempest in a Tea Party brewing somewhere. That “somewhere” last week was at the debate between 6th Congressional District candidates Mike Coffman, the GOP incumbent, and Democratic challenger Joe Miklosi. Seems the Dem from Denver and now south-south-south-west-west-west Aurora said, in an effort to explain that Coffman’s tap-dancing stance on abortion, birthers and Obama is too extreme for Aurora, compared Coffman’s adoring Tea Party to a pompous, self-righteous high-school football coach. Ouch. Miklosi did not say whether he was intimating Regis football coach Mark Nolan, who parents have taken great pains to lambaste on this rag’s website in a multitude of letters blaming him for this season’s dismal end, a few cases of needed psychotherapy and global warming. Politics and prep football are rough sports.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS