gdp's Comments

Daily Camera.com: : Blue horse at Denver International Airport eligible for removal soon - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 22:16:53 +0000

My daughter and I call it the Scooby-Doo Ghost Horse. It should definitely stay where it is.

Daily Camera.com: : Ageton, Appelbaum, Karakehian lead in Boulder City Council race - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:05:12 +0000

on the bright side, 2 of the PLANbots lost...

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder explores charging open space fees for non-residents - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:45:44 +0000

It shouldn't cost money or be a hassle to simply go for a walk in the woods. People go for walks in the woods to get away from life's hassles, like getting nickeled and dimed for every little thing. Let's not spoil this, please. Places that charge usage fees, like state and national parks, are typically destinations in and of themselves and have amenities like picnic areas, restrooms, guided tours or visitor centers. Presumably, there is no plan to provide these sorts of amenities at the trails where fees are to be charged? Along with PhilipMay11, I'd also wonder about the amount of money this would bring in relative to the administrative costs of collecting the fees and making sure residents have the proper ID cards/stickers, etc.

Daily Camera.com: : George Karakehian touts business perspective, new priorities - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:36:45 +0000

jrhondorf - I think that's a bug, because Karakehian's video is up on her page now. I suspect that giving a couple of lines to opponents is intended to provide balance to the profiles, but in all of the profiles I've seen, it just seems to come off as a parting pot-shot with little background or context. If the DC wanted to provide outside pro and con perspectives in these profiles, it should be in a separate section with those perspectives developed in more detail. But I agree with you, it would be better to just let the candidate say their piece in the profiles and have the pro and con analysis exist elsewhere. Also, DC, we are only a few weeks from the election, how about a prominent link to Election coverage from the main page? You have an Election page with links to Q&A and the profiles on it, which is great, but its link is buried under News your top navigation area, which I'll suspect is rarely used...

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder gives final OK to house-size rules - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:14:12 +0000

The headline should read "Boulder *City Council* gives final OK to house-size rules" seeing as the citizens never got a chance to vote on it.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder gives final OK to house-size rules - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:39:44 +0000

Thank you, Angelique, Ken and Suzy for being voices of reason in this debate. Here's to hoping we get more of your ilk on the next council.

Daily Camera.com: : PLAN - Boulder County endorses city council candidates - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:59:26 +0000

V O T E C owles R aj A pplebaum P lass

Daily Camera.com: : Season\'s first snowflakes fall in Nederland - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:49:33 +0000

SKI SEASON APPROACHES!

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder house-size rules move forward - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:29:09 +0000

Even removing the 13% "no opinion" types (which makes sense since we can't know the motivation behind choosing that item), you've got 45% saying it's not a problem to 43% saying it is. This is dead even, not a clear mandate either way, and one would have hoped would have been interpreted by the council as a need to craft a resolution with demonstrable majority community support (like the sort you get from a vote -- and don't give me any hooey about this being too complex an issue for a vote). There may have been a "compromise" within the council, but it was just enough of a compromise to get a 5-3 majority vote within the council itself - - this should not be taken to mean that it is a compromise acceptable to the citizenry. As for the survey, note that the council only sent this out after the attempt at ramming through an emergency measure met with public resistance.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder house-size rules move forward - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:37:47 +0000

Hey, I just noticed that if you take the first letter from Cowles, Raj, Applebaum and Plass, and put them together, you get...

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder house-size rules move forward - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:12:21 +0000

2 / 10. The assertion that greedy speculators are ruining our cotton is utterly unfounded.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder house-size rules move forward - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:39:06 +0000

"Hello citizen, you need a cheeseburger, what kind of cheese do you want on it?" "No thanks, I'm not hungry" "OK, I won't put any cheese on it. Here's your hamburger. Now, citizen, wasn't that a great compromise?"

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder mayor: Residents will accept house rules in time - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:41:24 +0000

"Yo Boulder City Council, I know you gonna pass this ordinance, and Imma let you finish, but this is your lousiest decision of all time! And that's sayin' something!"

Daily Camera.com: : Guest opinion: Council should slow down on compatible development - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:04:08 +0000

To listen to the Colorado Matters piece, head to the page below and scroll down to "Boulder Debates Scale of Homes" http://www.kcfr.org/index.php?option=content&...

Daily Camera.com: : \'Shaggy Bandit\' charged in federal court - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:08:00 +0000

He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Longmont cops.