gdp's Comments

Daily Camera.com: : Eight days, 1,000-year rain, 100-year flood - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:05:14 +0000

This is a great 'for the record' account about the flood in Boulder. There have been tons of stories and communications of all types from various areas... but years from now, stories like this will be valued even more than they are today--which is still lots.

Daily Camera.com: : Butch Jones and CU Buffs still talking - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 02:02:03 +0000

A telling indicator for CU's prospects is the location Butch cites when he first heard the rumor: "having dinner at Cracker Barrel." Maybe trying to get that Dushambe Teahouse vibe out of system...

Daily Camera.com: : Monument\'s Jenny Simpson finishes last in heat of 1,500-meter semis - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 03:03:16 +0000

Jenny was always a class act at CU, and she's a class act today. Better days ahead for her!

Daily Camera.com: : CU regents warned of state funding disaster - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:20:00 +0000

Mr. Neguse, 28, you are young and naive. Have you noticed these past 20 years or so how interested Colorado taxpayers are in ponying up for a new tax for something that may not measurably benefit them directly?

Daily Camera.com: : Pizzeria Basta practices the art of simplicity - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 8 Jul 2012 03:09:35 +0000

As soon as I saw that word I went running to Google.. hmm... blogs, twitter feeds bearing 'cookistry'... but not actually words.. but hey, it's cookistry. borderline, but I'd let it slide!

Daily Camera.com: : Erie\'s fireworks show is a go - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:20:04 +0000

Maybe they'll open the show with a little fracking! Welcome to Erie... to hell with those who think we're maybe a little bit insensitive and dangerous... we've got a market advantage, and our growth potential is UNLIMITED!!

Daily Camera.com: : Paddleboat blues: Dry winter restricts uses at Lafayette\'s Waneka Lake - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 19 May 2012 06:05:55 +0000

The 4th of July there is indeed a blast, I don't recall the small handful of small craft playing any role in the festivities attended by a couple thousand people. Seems a small price to pay...

Daily Camera.com: : Guest opinion: Don\'t let student loan rates soar - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 9 May 2012 13:43:25 +0000

"1,000 years from now, the United States of America would be remembered for three things: baseball, rock and roll, and the modern research university." It's crazy to think the modern research university will be remembered in its current form in 100 years. Much less 1,000. FWIW, I have my doubts about baseball in 1,000 years, too. As for rock and roll, most people already have forgotten it.

Daily Camera.com: : CU President Bruce Benson: Foundation on pace to break fundraising record - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:18:09 +0000

'What role Benson had in it, if any, is unclear' Bruce Benson and his wife Marcy are also the chairs of CU's fundraising campaign, and are among the largest donors in the history of the university. http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17920632 So it's not THAT unclear...

Daily Camera.com: : Multiple car accident closes Boulder\'s 19th and Iris intersection - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:09:29 +0000

If some random observer had estimated the car was going 110mph, would the Camera have put *that* unverifiable (and surely overestimated) guess in the headline as well? Even if a trained eye were watching for it, it would be difficult to estimate a speed like that. An random witness who likely saw it offhandedly... should not be quoted as an authoritative source as to speed in a headline even if you have him saying it on video.

Daily Camera.com: : Analysis: 29% of $28M CU-Boulder tuition hike paid for raises - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:26:09 +0000

News flash: 21.5% of Boulder Daily Camera readers make more than $150,000 a year! The Camera is very proud of its "active, affluent consumers!"! Source: http://extras.dailycamera.com/images/advertising/...

Daily Camera.com: : CU regents split in increasingly public battle, but not along party lines - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:35:54 +0000

...and CU's figure for same for 2011-12 is $9152--38 to 45 percent less than the Berkeley/UCLA figures. How is that keeping tuition lower than CU is???? http://www.colorado.edu/pba/budget/tuitionfees/tu... Berkeley and UCLA indeed have stronger reputations in many or most fields (while Colorado is stronger in certain fields). But we're bending over backwards so far to tar and feather CU that we're leaving truth in its wake.

Daily Camera.com: : Rising McCaslin underpass price tag doesn\'t spook Louisville leaders - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 05:48:05 +0000

For $1.4 million?! At that point, you can see cars coming a couple hundred yards away. They're not doing 70. And it's not *that* busy. I've walked across that intersection 20 times. Just... look both ways... and wait...maybe 10 or 20 seconds if, you know, there's an heavy flow... and walk across the intersection. No big thing.

Daily Camera.com: : Cheese Importers could move to old Longmont power plant - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:15:47 +0000

Wonderful to see this business moving to a higher profile location. But no article about Cheese Importers is complete without asking the question: What about the long-promised Lafayette retail location?

Daily Camera.com: : News - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:51:01 +0000

Weird survey, to compare routes like this in an apples-to-apples way, even when unscientifically 'normalizing' for weekday/weekend use. I do that Baseline commute from Lafayette/Boulder many summer weekdays, so I'm not too surprised that Baseline is a well-used road. Don't know what I'd extrapolate from that except Arapahoe sucks and S. Boulder's hillier and less central for many such commuters. Also don't know what proportion of weekend/weekday riders you're counting. I'm sure Lee Hill and Left Hand are way more weekend-centric and volatile ridership based on weather. Also... I just don't believe this is a comprehensive survey of BoCo roads. Does this include, say, the roads on the CU campus? I imagine we're not counting straight paths like Boulder Creek Trail...but even city road arteries? Maybe a fault of the story and not the survey. But if meaningful conclusions are meant to be drawn from this--they really can't, based just on what we've got here.

Daily Camera.com: : CU tuition hike funded raises for Phil DiStefano, other top administrators - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:13:21 +0000

Just to provide some digressive food for thought as we read through the fury... "It's cheaper to drive a Prius to campus from Fort Collins than to live in Boulder," said Fowler, a classics major. Maybe Leslie Fowler was being flip, or has family reasons to live in Fort Collins. But she shouldn't pin this economically absurd decision on the cost of 'living in Boulder.' Making a 110-mile round trip 4-5 days a week adds as much as 2,000 commuting miles a month. She's looking at operating costs per mile of over 30 cents (a very conservative estimate: fuel is not the only determinant). Add to this the opportunity cost of 2 extra hours on the road per day--and she would find living Boulder's a much cheaper option. source: http://www.piercetransit.org/rideshare/costs.htm.

Daily Camera.com: : CU regent: Tuition increases far outpacing state cuts - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:21:53 +0000

It's useless because tuition revenue increases are not meant to replace state cuts dollar-for-dollar, and neither figure has a direct connection with expense-side components. Budget variables are way more numerous and complex than just these two components--as regent Ludwig points out. Additionally, a quick math lesson... If a number is cut 50%, it must be increased 100% to return to its original level...

Daily Camera.com: : Proposed green neighborhood would pull Erie west - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:58:34 +0000

"Cast off its geographic shackles"?!? One of the main things that makes a town a COMMUNITY is geographic definition. Erie, encompassing its (neglected) Old Town, self-contained subdivisions like Vista Ridge, and totally untethered shopping centers like the one already at Arapahoe/287...these have already destroyed the geographic shackles (or "geographic unity") of Erie. Perhaps it should simply be annexed by its geographically unshackled neighbor to the south-ish... Broomfield. Erie residents may wake up to find out they now live in New Mexico.

Daily Camera.com: : CU studies how other schools deal with 4/20 - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:12:40 +0000

It's "draconian" to rope off a small area at a private college (tuition $38,500 *before* fees, room, board, books, et al) where a large group of people were going to smoke pot? Folks like Dylan could use a primer on what "draconian" tactics actually mean to much of the rest of the world...

Daily Camera.com: : Business - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 5 Nov 2011 01:56:02 +0000

funny, Lollilocks did a half price GroupOn two weeks ago... a last-ditch effort to raise cash?