gdp's Comments

Daily Camera.com: : Post

Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:09:40 +0000

Just knowing THAT someone has or hasn't voted doesn't compromise the secret ballot. Secret ballot only means there's no way to know HOW someone voted.

Daily Camera.com: : Post

Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:07:38 +0000

There are still poll watchers for in person elections. You know those slips you write your name on to pass to the election judge who finds you in the poll book? Well, poll watchers are allowed to look at those slips whenever they like. They compare the slips against their list of registered voters for their party in that precinct, and every few hours step out of the polling place to call in with who still hasn't voted. Those folks then get a call or a visit from a party volunteer to ask if they need a ride to the polling place. Can't get more DURING than that.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder County to add GOP election judges - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:38:12 +0000

> I suspect often a college student will graduate and move out of state, and leaving their roommates to perhaps vote the ballot (with perhaps a copy of their signature on an old lease, or just given them), among myriad other ways mail balloting might be excused. Risking a felony to get one extra vote? Makes perfect sense. I'm sure tons of students think that's totally worth it.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder County to add GOP election judges - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:17:41 +0000

The County Clerk is only notified of voters who either move within the state or file a change of address with the post office. Therefore, there are probably students still on the rolls after graduating, moving, and doing the typical young person thing of not bothering with forwarding. That doesn't mean anything hinky is going on. The only thing distinguishing Boulder is that we have a larger population that moves away regularly than your average city. > I've heard someone report that they have still been receiving ballots for their husband who died a number of years ago, despite having gone to the clerk's office with a death certificate to try to get them removed from the registration list (apparently having tried a few times over the years to get them to do so). There's something wrong with this story. They only send ballots to active voters. If you fail to return a ballot for a general election you become inactive and have to go back to voting in person the next one.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder Junction symbolic of divide over building boom - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:53:25 +0000

There was supposed to, but then someone reminded the planners that you can't build a train stop on a curved section of track. This inconvenient fact seems to have been quietly swept under the rug lest it sap public support for the project. I was glad to see it called out in this article.

Daily Camera.com: : Salina Cafe owner, cast out by flood, in fight not to lose property - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:36:47 +0000

While if I lived beside a creek, I wouldn't feel comfortable without flood insurance, you should take into consideration that the building had been standing more than 125 years without needing flood insurance. The owner's decision as to risk was probably made with this in mind. She had no way of knowing that a 500 year flood would happen in her lifetime. (And it is a creek, not a river. Normally one can step over it.)

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder police: Cyclist hit by car on Arapahoe Avenue seriously injured - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:01:38 +0000

This happened in a seperated bike lane. The problem is that there aren't also seperate traffic signals so it's actually more dangerous than an on street bike lane because drivers have to check both directions for bikes, and do so through landscaping.

Daily Camera.com: : Women-only homeless shelter in Boulder provides refuge - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:49:59 +0000

> Where is this shelter located by the way? BOHO rotates between the participating churches and synagogue. The idea is that few churches could coordinate opening their building every night (for instance, most places don't have enough clear space to sleep people without moving furniture out of the way, which you then have to replace the next morning for daytime users), they can commit to doing so one night a week.

Daily Camera.com: : Contentious public-private U.S. 36 deal to get public airing this week - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:52:23 +0000

They don't have to build the tracks because it's not going to be light rail: they're buying the heavy rail tracks from BNSF, which wants a fortune for them. Unfortunately it's still easier than starting from scratch.

Daily Camera.com: : Contentious public-private U.S. 36 deal to get public airing this week - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:49:02 +0000

If only we approve another transportation tax they just might make it happen this time. They swear they might. http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci...

Daily Camera.com: : Contentious public-private U.S. 36 deal to get public airing this week - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:36:18 +0000

They have a serious historic bottleneck problem - except for the tollway in the boonies there are only two freeways that go through the city and they can't be easily expanded as they both pass too close downtown then over bridges at Towne Lake.

Daily Camera.com: : Whooping cough cases on the rise in Boulder County - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 6 Dec 2013 17:32:43 +0000

The vaccine's effectiveness rate wouldn't be such a problem if it wasn't for two pools of people in the population: kids who haven't been fully vaccinated AND adults whose immunity has worn off. When you have a kid, they'll not only give the mother a Tdap every pregnancy to spike her antibodies, which then pass to the baby, they'll also tell you to make sure everyone who takes care of the baby has had a Tdap shot as an adult. It is a dangerous disease for infants, so they want to protect the adults to insulate the infant, but as someone who had pertussis as an adult and put up with painful, incapacitating coughing fits for almost a year, I have to wonder why the hell my PCP didn't tell my childless self to get the damn shot at some point in the years I'd been seeing her. People are delaying having children more and more, so why wait until a baby comes along to make sure adults are up to date on vaccinations?

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder\'s Mustard\'s making its last stand - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:54:01 +0000

> The Civic Area Master Plan adopted by the Boulder City Council earlier this year calls for those two buildings to eventually be removed and that area, along with much of the library parking lot, to become part of a Civic Center Plaza and expanded park area. Wait, where are we supposed to park for the library? I already have to strategize my library trips to avoid the lunch parking rush.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder lays out details for overhaul of Arapahoe - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 8 Mar 2013 01:38:04 +0000

> You'll note that one of the cost estimate figures I posted is for *new construction* > You'll note that one of the cost estimate figures I posted is for *new construction*, ie construction from scratch Still not concrete construction.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder Map Gallery moving to south Boulder, leaving downtown after 26 years - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:19:00 +0000

There's one on Pearl, too, which has old posters and old maps both.

Daily Camera.com: : With textbook business in flux, CU-Boulder students win and lose - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:59:48 +0000

Always appreciated the professors who went out of their way to find a textbook that had a very stable edition. I'm sure it made their lives a bit easier, too, knowing none of the problems or page numbers changed.

Daily Camera.com: : Design details emerge for McCaslin underpass at Davidson Mesa in Louisville - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:55:16 +0000

Don't be so quick to blame the architects. It could be the DC who took a perfectly good png or pdf and converted it to a crummy unreadable jpg.

Daily Camera.com: : BVSD elementary attendance dips, but officials don\'t see link to Conn. shooting - Boulder Daily Cam

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:32:37 +0000

Possibly, but half my local friends are down with the flu, so I can believe that there's a lot of virus absences. I normally don't get the flu vaccine, but heard it was a brutal strain this year that the vaccine matches well. Resolved to get one this week, and promptly caught it over the weekend instead. I can testify that it sucks.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont police report triple-murder/suicide - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:21:38 +0000

Glad he realized that if he didn't have a clear shot he shouldn't take it. Unlike the cops at the Empire State Building shooting, where the shooter killed his target, then the two cops eight feet away fired at him 16 times, hit him 7 times, and wounded 8 innocent bystanders. They're lucky no innocents were killed, spraying bullets like that.

Daily Camera.com: : CU-Boulder student charged with 18 felonies, suspended from school in pot brownie case - Boulder Dai

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:52:52 +0000

Slightly related story: for my major you had to do a lab where you worked with small radiation sources and so had to wear a radiation tag that measures your exposure. Due to a past student's funny "prank" we were explicitly warned that the tag readings go onto a permanent record, so it isn't funny to tape a radiation source to your friend's tag after he leaves -- he won't ever be able to get a job in a lab that has to wear tags, no matter how much he explains what actually happened.