en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/711144 Comments by sean57 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28130310/hotel-cost-local-officials-utah-meeting-raises-eyebrows#IDComment971981296 I think it's more than principle. If the entire city started taking a more frugal stance on every dollar spent they could save enough to make a real difference. Sun, 17 May 2015 14:46:32 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28130310/hotel-cost-local-officials-utah-meeting-raises-eyebrows#IDComment971981296 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_27835652#IDComment961790384 It seems the best approach is to try and void out the 1995(?) rule change where the county choose to stop maintaining the subdivision roads. It's already been ruled that the county is responsible to maintain them and can't charge extra for it. Then they will be forced to fix them for small $ soon or mega $$$ later. Sat, 4 Apr 2015 00:40:16 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_27835652#IDComment961790384 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-schools/ci_27801727/boulder-valley-school-board-split-response-casey-sewer?source=rss#IDComment960363504 Here's a way to solve the problem. Force the entire school board to move the offices to the worst part of Casey Middle School until the problem is solved. I think it will get fixed in 1 day then. Sat, 28 Mar 2015 20:03:14 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-schools/ci_27801727/boulder-valley-school-board-split-response-casey-sewer?source=rss#IDComment960363504 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_27708411/boulder-mobile-homeowners-unable-sell#IDComment957363314 A mobile home is NOT an investment for the future. Unlike a brick and mortar house/condo, they depreciate over time just like a car and eventually become worthless. Leaving the owner with the cost of removing them from someone else's property. Mobile home park owners know this and most have set age limits, in the lot lease, on selling them "in-place" to keep up the value of their property. Sad but true. Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_27708411/boulder-mobile-homeowners-unable-sell#IDComment957363314 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_27337716/silver-creek-drops-home-ec-launches-business-program#IDComment942260706 In my opinion, the should teach both classes. The class in home economic should be required to graduate, while the business class should be an elective. Lets face it, it's more important to know how to balance a checkbook, create and live by a budget, budgeting time, knowing what different types of life insurance are for, how to choose a doctor, dentist, handyman/women, how to apply for loans, fill out a basic 1040 tax return, etc. are far more important than knowing the business laws and customs in China for 90% of people. Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:50:31 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_27337716/silver-creek-drops-home-ec-launches-business-program#IDComment942260706 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24698322/puc-rejects-boulder-appeal-muni-utility-decision#IDComment766702085 Most people that live outside the city limits (unincorporated Boulder County) want it that way (I live in one such subdivision - not affected by the muni proposal). If not they (we) would have asked to be annexed in long ago. Its nice not paying extra taxes for wasted services you don't use and laws you don't want. Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:25:43 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24698322/puc-rejects-boulder-appeal-muni-utility-decision#IDComment766702085 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24698322/puc-rejects-boulder-appeal-muni-utility-decision#IDComment766700029 There is another option. Boulder can create their vaunted muni system and exclude those portions served by the sub-stations in question. I think Boulder will lose any legal battle to take them over anyway since the people outside city limits in the areas in question have not been allowed to vote on it. Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:19:46 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24698322/puc-rejects-boulder-appeal-muni-utility-decision#IDComment766700029 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_24671206/hampered-by-city-code-boulder-co-ops-say#IDComment764076384 Why do they think they deserve to be given special treatment? Everyone is supposed to be treated equally. Sun, 8 Dec 2013 07:02:59 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_24671206/hampered-by-city-code-boulder-co-ops-say#IDComment764076384 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24625457/black-friday-would-be-gun-purchases-thousands#IDComment759606470 Don't forget to thank Obama and his band of liars. It's just too bad that the American sheeple have to get screwed over before the realize the truth Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:34:17 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_24625457/black-friday-would-be-gun-purchases-thousands#IDComment759606470 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_23837674/many-rural-boulder-county-property-owners-continue-question#IDComment698060040 The cities get money from the county, part of it is for streets. Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:12:13 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_23837674/many-rural-boulder-county-property-owners-continue-question#IDComment698060040 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_23837674/many-rural-boulder-county-property-owners-continue-question#IDComment697905008 The county is shafting people that live in subdivisions. The original builder put in the roads and the cost of them was passed onto the home buyer. At the same time, the builder turned responsibility for the roads, in perpetuity, over to the county. That means to fully maintain the roads, not just patch potholes. In return the county gets the property taxes for the home to cover costs for the roads and other county services. No road will last forever, regardless of how well it maintained and anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or just plain stupid. Now the county wants to renege on there end of the deal do to them allocating funds for pet projects and taking it away from what they agreed to do. The county now wants those living in subdivisions to pay additional money for services that the county had agreed to provide when they started taxing the homeowner. In affect the country has been taxing the homeowners for services they haven't been providing but agreed to. Services they provide at no extra charge to people living on remote county roads that are not part of a subdivision. The county needs to hold up their end of the agreement like they said they would do when the subdivisions were built.. Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:02:36 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_23837674/many-rural-boulder-county-property-owners-continue-question#IDComment697905008 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_22664449/barbara-m-renton-guns-give-false-sense-security#IDComment579698286 A single incident or even several doesn't change the statistical fact that guns make people safer. Even a buried study done by the Clinton administration trying to show guns are bad showed that guns are used by citizens to save lives and stop crime over 160,000 times per year. Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:46:02 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_22664449/barbara-m-renton-guns-give-false-sense-security#IDComment579698286 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_22601993#IDComment572645762 TG, It has been statistically proven that laws like these not only won't help curb crime but increase violence. No amount of wishful thinking can change that. So why do you want them? Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:30:13 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_22601993#IDComment572645762 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment523234214 I'm saying we keep adding gun laws and things get worse. If that doesn't tell you gun laws don't work I don't know what will. We need to allow people to protect themselves. We need to address the cause, and not the item used. The cause it the person. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:45:24 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment523234214 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522832336 If you read my original post you'd know it is. That is what the statistics show. If we make it criminal to own guns, only criminals will have guns and we will become a police state with just criminals and the govt having guns and no way for people to protect themselves. Answer this question, back in the day when guns were easy to purchase (no background checks, just walk into the local hardware store and buy whatever) there were never things like this, not one! Kids would even bring guns to school for show-and-tell and no one gave it a second thought. Why, with all the gun laws have things gotten so much worse? Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:02:48 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522832336 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522828240 The founding fathers expected people to own a firearm suitable for military use and know how to use it. The ownership of firearms for hunting and personal defense was assumed. The ownership of cannons, etc was never intended. Read all the letters and articles of the time and you will see it explained plain as day. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:55:51 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522828240 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522808377 From smugglers supplying criminals Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:24:15 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522808377 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522759853 A gun that the killer would have gotten regardless of gun laws. If they allowed the teachers and staff to carry guns (fewer gun laws), there probably would have been a lot fewer deaths. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:02:13 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522759853 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522726791 It's gun laws that cause the problem. Not gun ownership or the NRA. In mass shootings, where guns are already prohibited, the police end the situation with an average of 14.3 people shot. When they occur at places where guns are allowed and an armed citizen steps in to end the situation the average is 2.3 people shot. Criminals and loonies ignore the laws will always find a way to get a gun. Gun laws only disarm law abiding citizens. The results is a population left to the mercies of criminals, loonies and the Govt (oh, wait, I already mentioned loonies). We keep adding more gun laws and the situation keeps getting worse. If that doesn't make things clear to you, get a clue, less guns means more crime, more guns means less crime and less killing of innocents. Try reading John Lott instead of just drinking the KoolAid the anti-gun crowd and Democrats spoon feed you. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:06:11 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_22213587/nra-goes-silent-after-connecticut-school-shooting#IDComment522726791 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21987258#IDComment490082403 Cynicism about "Boulder-led" aside, I would like to see if their data set takes into account the heat island affect caused by population changes around the sampling sites. Most don't which corrupts the study. Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:45:13 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_21987258#IDComment490082403