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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 1 reply · +13 points
The Koch Bros. too?
Wow.
Just . . . wow.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 0 replies · +4 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 0 replies · +15 points
"right-sized" is now referred to as "protected lanes."
When something doesn't sell, change the name!
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 0 replies · +12 points
Maybe they've read the writing on the wall and have heard in advance how the vote will go. Council members have been put under extreme pressure on this issue and most likely would like the heat off before the election.
I'll give Zane and the zanies credit for causing a huge backlash – something it looks like they're about to exacerbate with the little protest they've planned.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Supporters of Folsom p... · 1 reply · +16 points
...which as Semiferal points out, will just serve to piss off even more motorists.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Leonard Pitts Jr.: Jus... · 1 reply · +1 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: For Boulder... · 1 reply · +1 points
Maybe the page was jumping around so much because of the various scripts running behind it I hit the wrong Reply button but alas, my insightful bon mot has been delete by an admin anyway.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Middle school students... · 1 reply · +7 points
Perhaps it should, to teach an important lesson about intentions and consequences.
No test necessary.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder to take new lo... · 0 replies · +7 points
by Eli Sanders - The Stranger - Seattle
Dec. 2005
Check out this strange e-mail exchange I had with Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr and his special assistant, Ruth Bowman, while I was working on this story about how Seattle is at the leading edge of this country's drug law reform movement.
Carr’s claims about marijuana case filings were originally only a smallish part of my story, but the exchange with Carr’s office is so bizarre and newsworthy—involving a back-and-forth over fishy numbers, a front-page Seattle Post-Intelligencer article from November, and information fed to a P-I reporter by Carr that Carr himself now admits was false—that they deserve their own web real-estate.
Here's the back story: On November 23, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a front-page article by Mike Lewis that looked at the fallout from Initiative 75, which all but decriminalized adult marijuana possession in Seattle. Voters approved I-75 by a large margin in 2003, and two years later the P-I story found few negative impacts from the measure's requirement that marijuana busts become Seattle's lowest law enforcement priority.
But the story also included quotes from Carr saying that while the negative effects from I-75 that he predicted had not actually materialized, I-75 also had not had the positive effect pot activists were claiming. Marijuana busts were low in number before the law took effect, Carr said, and remained similarly low in number afterward. "I'd say it's had little to no effect," he told Lewis. As proof of this assertion, Carr told Lewis that there had been only 74 marijuana filings by his office in 2002. In 2004, the year after I-75 took effect, there were 59 filings, Carr said. That's not much of a drop—or, at least, it wouldn't be, if it were true.
But you'll notice that the 74 number has disappeared from the web version of the P-I's story.
That's because it's not true. There were actually 160 marijuana filings by Carr's office in 2002, which creates a 63 percent drop in filings between 2002 and 2004. With numbers like that, it's hard to argue there's been "no effect" from I-75.
The P-I hasn't corrected the record yet, but I'm told it will do so shortly, probably with a story in tomorrow's paper. Good reporters like Lewis don't like to become conduits for false information....
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/what-was-tom-c...
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ciclovia event opening... · 0 replies · +3 points
"I'm always excited to see what surprises the community comes up with," Griffith said.
Like an overwhelming angry rejection of the boneheaded "right-sizing" experiment?
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