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Daily Camera.com: : Supporters of Folsom protected bike lanes plan protest - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:19:43 +0000

If you are against complete streets, the blood of children, pedestrians and cyclists are on your hands. The Koch Bros. too? Wow. Just . . . wow.

Daily Camera.com: : Supporters of Folsom protected bike lanes plan protest - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:16:34 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : Supporters of Folsom protected bike lanes plan protest - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:15:49 +0000

Hey . . . "right-sized" is now referred to as "protected lanes." When something doesn't sell, change the name!

Daily Camera.com: : Supporters of Folsom protected bike lanes plan protest - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:19:50 +0000

Doesn't it make more sense for them to protest before the Tues CC vote? 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.

Daily Camera.com: : Supporters of Folsom protected bike lanes plan protest - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 13:24:43 +0000

You're probably right. A tiny version of San Francisco's Critical Mass ...which as Semiferal points out, will just serve to piss off even more motorists.

Daily Camera.com: : Leonard Pitts Jr.: Justice denied for 66 years and counting - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:59:18 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : Editorial: For Boulder City Council - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:21:54 +0000

I was replying to mstdye's comment. 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.

Daily Camera.com: : Middle school students advocate for less gender bias in dress code - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:47:04 +0000

The obvious answer to this conundrum is uniforms. Is that really where they want this to end up? Perhaps it should, to teach an important lesson about intentions and consequences. No test necessary.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder to take new look at marijuana regulations - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 20:08:05 +0000

What Was Tom Carr Smoking? 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...

Daily Camera.com: : Ciclovia event opening Boulder streets to wide array of play - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:43:50 +0000

"Ciclovia," – they have pills for that now, don't they? "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?

Daily Camera.com: : Todd Short: \'Living lab\' makes citizens rats in a maze - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 14:38:29 +0000

...our elected representatives... Mr. Short, allow me to disabuse you of the notion. You won't find the term "elected representative" used in this newspaper to refer to the city council – they are referred to as "elected leaders." Because the Boulder city council obviously does not consider itself a representative body. They feel they are elected to lead as they individually see fit. Thus, 300 and 301.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder\'s Watson University preparing next class of entrepreneurs - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 26 Sep 2015 23:46:59 +0000

Tuition at Watson is $15,000 per semester, a price that includes housing at Chautauqua in Boulder. I don't remember reading that twist when Chautauqua cabins were being written about a couple of weeks ago. That's interesting.

Daily Camera.com: : Dalai Lama cancels next month\'s Boulder visit over medical concerns - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:30:24 +0000

Daily Camera.com: : Greg Wilkerson: Profiteering developers behind opposition - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:10:55 +0000

Anyone thinking we need more development is invited to stroll Pearl St. Mall to 11th and look west.

Daily Camera.com: : Bob Greenlee: Boulder: A tale of two cities? - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:06:28 +0000

A two or three second confirmation of your signature allows anyone to cast a ballot no matter who submitted it. This is a good thing?

Daily Camera.com: : Fearing bad winter, Boulder staff recommends scaling back much of Folsom \'right-sizing\' - Boulder

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:04:55 +0000

That conversation with George was astoundingly revealing. Sad that he's not running again. Perfectly understandable why he's not.

Daily Camera.com: : Fearing bad winter, Boulder staff recommends scaling back much of Folsom \'right-sizing\' - Boulder

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:33:17 +0000

Where can the snowplow plan be found and critiqued? I've seen a small plow being used on the multi-use path west of Diagonal. They were clearing the paths before the street, naturally. It looked to be a Bobcat: <img src="http://s25.postimg.org/gbrtzcsrz/bobcat_s130_1.jpg"> So the bollocks . . .I mean, bollards, were probably spaced accordingly to allow its passage. The remaining snow would cover their bases between the bike lane and the auto lane is my guess.

Daily Camera.com: : Fearing bad winter, Boulder staff recommends scaling back much of Folsom \'right-sizing\' - Boulder

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:03:34 +0000

You could shorten the second sentence and the answer would still be 'no.'

Daily Camera.com: : Fearing bad winter, Boulder staff recommends scaling back much of Folsom \'right-sizing\' - Boulder

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:54:41 +0000

First of all, this city has a staff infection. Secondly, this website is being rendered unusable by boneheaded marketing decisions. Take a look at how many scripts are running on this page: AdActio Adap.tv Adconion , Segment Data, Analytics AddThis Widgets, Social AdGear , Behavior Tracking Adobe Test & Target Beacons Adometry Analytics AdRoll , Behavior Tracking .com Aggregate Knowledge Beacons AMP Platform AppNexus Audience Science Beacons BidSwitch BlueKai Beacons Brandscreen BrightRoll , Video Player, Analytics Casale Media Centro ChartBeat Analytics Coull Criteo , Search Cross Pixel Media Beacons, Segment Data, Analytics Datalogix DataXu Digilant Dotomi Beacons DoubleClick DoubleClick Bid Manager DoubleVerify Analytics Drawbridge Dstillery Dynamic Logic Beacons EQ eXelate Beacons Eyeview Facebook Connect Widgets, Social Facebook Custom Audience Facebook Exchange (FBX) Facebook Social Plugins Widgets, Social Google Adsense Google Analytics Analytics, Analytics Google Dynamic Remarketing Google Tag Manager Widgets, Tag Manager Gravatar Widgets Integral Ad Science Analytics Intense Debate Widgets, Commenting System Krux Digital Beacons Legolas Media Beacons LiveRail , Video Player LiveRamp Beacons, E-mail Analytics, Segment Data Lotame Beacons, Analytics, Lead Management MaxPoint Interactive Media Innovation Group Analytics Media Optimizer (Adobe) Beacons MediaMath Mixpanel Analytics, Analytics Moat myThings Beacons Nativo NDN Analytics Analytics Neustar AdAdvisor Beacons, Lead Management New Relic Analytics, Analytics Omniture (Adobe Analytics) Beacons OpenX Outbrain Widgets OwnerIQ Beacons, Behavior Tracking, Lead Management PointRol Press+ Widgets, Affiliate Marketing PubMatic Quantcast RadiumOne Beacons, Behavior Tracking ReputationManager Beacons, Device Fingerprinting Right Media Rocket Fuel Beacons Rubicon RUN ScoreCard Research Beacon Beacons, Analytics Signal Beacons, Tag Manager Simpli.fi , Segment Data, Behavior Tracking SiteScout Sizmek , Video Player Smaato SpotXchange , Video Player SundaySky Taboola Widgets, Video Player Tapad , Analytics TradeDesk Tremor Media TRUSTe Notice Privacy TubeMogul Analytics, Video Player Turn Inc. , Affiliate Marketing, Lead Management Twitter Button Widgets, Social Undertone Videology Beacons, Video Player Vidible VoiceFive Beacons, Analytics, Popups Wishabi Beacons Yashi , Video Player

Daily Camera.com: : Embrace immigrants, Pope Francis urges Congress - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:49:53 +0000

How Many Immigrants Does Vatican City Take? "...Today, Vatican City operates something like a miniature Monaco. Totally surrounded by Rome, the city-state is in no way self-sustaining. Yet it does have a large, unionized workforce, a highly professional diplomatic corps, and a fairly good cash flow (due to support from Catholic parishes). What it does not have is any immigrants. Nor refugees. None. I tried to get the Holy See's official point-of-view on this question by contacting its official representative in the U.S., Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, the papal nuncio. His assistant insisted she could answer no questions, and all official questions must be addressed to the archbishop himself in writing. I faxed a few simple questions over in April but received no reply...." http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/...