This is a huge leadership failure.

Stay strong Barney. It's pretty horrifying to see what can happen to a property owner when the city decides it's not convenient to uphold existing agreements.

If you are female, you aren't responsible for the safety of your child, although you know your spouse is using drugs, you cover up and try to hide injuries to the child (a bruised forehead on a newborn doesn't alarm you?), you call your lawyer from the very hospital room where your infant is being treated for life-threatening injuries and talk with the lawyer about defense strategies -- if you're female, this is fine? I object. It is sad when women are abused, and when children are victimized and grow up to victimize other people. Virtually everyone in prison is a victim of some kind. We still hold them accountable. I'm horrified that we would believe a woman is less responsible for protecting her infant because she's been abused by her husband. When do we talk about a hurt and then a dead baby?

As a woman and mom I find your comments very disturbing. Just because I'm a woman, I don't expect to get a free pass if I allow my spouse to abuse and kill my kid. Just because I'm abused, I don't expect to skate for picking the wrong guy, tolerating and enabling his drug use, having a baby with him, failing to protect the baby, covering up for the abuse (bruises on baby's head etc.) and failing to take the baby for medical care. I believe that women and moms, even abused ones, have the same ability to act as men, and the same responsibility to do so. I hate to think what would happen to the justice system if women could simply say "But I was abused" and walk away from their responsibilities. There are all sorts of mental illness in the world. We don't say "Well, this person is alcoholic" and absolve them of their crimes. Spousal abuse and domestic violence are horrible things. Nearly every person in prison has been victimized. That is sad, and those people are still responsible for their actions.

"To have a baby die..." as though one day the baby just inexplicably died. There's a reason Molly is in jail.

No worries freetheweird, it is easy to reach the hiring manager directly and circumvent the whole Black Whole channel. I've written a bunch of columns about handling the interviewer's questions about salary -- this comment box isn't big enough to go into that unfortunately. I really don't want you filling out online applications - most of them never get read. If you join our discussion group at http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/asklizryan you can post a question about avoiding the Black Hole and/or a question about responding to the question "What were you earning at your last job?" -- we talk about both those things all the time.

There are decent jobs to be found in Boulder County, but not (at the moment) with IBM and Ball Aerospace. The article relies on out-of-date information. Most of the decent jobs to be had around here now are with small-to-medium-sized employers.

You seriously can't see how protecting children is different from prohibiting men and men (or women and women) to fall in love and get married? Children are deemed to be people who need to be protected, because they are little and can't look out for themselves entirely. That's the big difference. Obviously. No one on this board suggested that everything that has ever been illegal, should be made legal now. They've suggested that society moves forward, and that norms shift over time. It was once illegal for women to own property. We've evolved since then.

Hi UAN, there are tons of examples and how-to job-search advice articles in our discussion group archives (http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/asklizryan for our global group, or http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/frontrangecareer... for our local group) but the Daily Camera column is not the best place for step-by-step instructions or examples because of space limitations. Thanks! Liz

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