Oh Onion...my eyes, they weep.

How about...All current Citizens Against Runway Expansion should be replaced. They antagonized and insulted the airport community and by their actions have no respect for the public.

How do they have no respect for the public? By muddying the master plan process with ridiculous innuendo. And as for the airport board? They are much more patient listening to it all than I would be.

Do you really want to know? Then come ask the experts and those with the facts at the Longmont Airport Master Plan Open House tonight, Monday 11/28. Longmont Senior Center 910 Longs Peak Ave, 4-8pm. Among the items for discussion tonight: facility requirements, economic impact and development alternatives.

What is dubious is using class warfare to elicit outcries without facts in a down economy.

It's not just the small corporate jets that would benefit from it's lengthening.

Middle class families who use the current runway to fly in the smaller aircraft to travel, like those who use their vehicles, find that they are not able to top off their gas tank before departure from the Longmont Airport, so they have to fly to airports along the way and give away the taxable revenue that Longmont would have had by refueling elsewhere.

By the way, have you ever heard the sound the smaller corporate jets make flying out of Longmont Airport? I recorded one once. Barely. It took out of here so fast and the ground level noise from those talking about it was at a higher decibel.

The ignorance from those who feel only millionaire fly boys own airplanes is amusing and often exasperating. It's not just millionaires who own airplanes, but middle class families who pay tax dollars into what funds airport improvement projects. If you fly...you pay. And if you pay taxes into an aviation fund...wouldn't you rather those tax dollars go back into the airport in your community than to fund the airport in another community?

Longmont also conducted a citizen panel a couple weeks ago in which we were given keypads to "vote" on how we thought the money from the CTF should be spent. City Council is supposed to get the results of that meeting sometime in Jan and it should be open to public hearing.

And in related news: Public is a no-show at Boulder County Budget Hearings. Surprise, surprise, surprise. http://www.timescall.com/news/longmont-local-news...

"He saw the raccoon going through his trash..."

Wow. His trash was that important? Worth summoning your friends to help you club and machete an animal to death over? What an eejit.

Secure the trash, save a raccoon.

I don't see that Bonnie Finley was endorsed by American Tradition Partnership during her council campaign: http://bonniefinley.com/endorsements.asp.

Where are you getting your info?

Councilman Bagley was accused last night of not wanting to listen to what they had to say and he provided proof that he was indeed listening and responded by showing an almost full sheet of notes he was taking about the issue during public invited to be heard.

They have a "gong" ...only it's a "ding" and I was glad to see the new mayor use it last night. Repeatedly :)