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10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - U.S. 36 tolls, traffic... · 0 replies · +6 points
100% agreed. There should be a class action lawsuit against RTD to recuperate the tax money that was stolen from Boulder residents. There should be a ballot measure that gives voters the option of reclaiming our highway from this private corporation. There are a lot of legal issues here, but if RTD is sued by Plenary as a consequence of voters demanding their money back and their roads back, so be it. RTD administrators needs to be held responsible for their actions.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - U.S. 36 tolls, traffic... · 0 replies · +10 points
Yes, I prefer that public infrastructure be owned and paid by the public. I prefer that people with money do not have greater access to public goods simply because they are wealthy. Public infrastructure should be owned and regulated by the public.
This project was mismanaged by RTD when they used Boulder's tax money elsewhere. And their solution to this was to bring in a private company to raise even more money off taxpayers through this extra lane, all the while claiming it was to induce people to take public transit. So we already paid a large portion of the cost through our taxes. Now they're telling us to pay more to use a special lane for fifty years.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - U.S. 36 tolls, traffic... · 4 replies · +15 points
This entire project is a travesty. It should anger every Colorado resident that our PUBLIC infrastructure has been privatized and that as we drive down OUR highways, there are signs blinking telling us how much we'll have to pay if we dare to switch to an "express" lane.
If we do not oppose it, the privatization of public goods will continue. All those at RTD who engineered this sellout should be removed from their positions for their abject failures. And a ballot measure should be created to take back our highways from these corporate thieves.
Public infrastructure belongs to all of us, not just those willing to pay for Cadillac lanes.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - With 6% spike in fresh... · 0 replies · +2 points
Yep, I see it from the inside. CU professors are dealing with woefully unprepared students who lack basic skills, have no work ethic, and demand good grades. I knew a professor who had some international students in his classes from China and the Middle East who didn't speak basic English. CU doesn't enter these international students into basic English writing courses. They're just dumped onto the professors who end up basically teaching English as a second language. All this happening at what administrators advertise as a world-class university. What a sad sad state of affairs.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - With 6% spike in fresh... · 2 replies · +2 points
Two things stick out here:
1) They do not mention CU's acceptance rate. In 2013 it was 88%. Has it gone above 90%? What does that say about academic standards when you accept almost anyone who applies? What other public flagship universities have a similar acceptance rate? (Berkeley is 18.1%, Michigan's is 32%, UT-Austin is 40%, Wisconsin is 48%, Minnesota is 45%, and, interestingly enough, Colorado State-Fort Collins is 77%). So basically, CU-Boulder has no academic standards. I hope the administrators are proud.
2) "CU's international population also grew by 17.5 percent to 2,621 students."
This is the money-making strategy of CU administration. Increase the number of international students because their tuition rates are exorbitant. I am guessing the acceptance rate of international students approaches 100%--doesn't matter if they have bad grades, can barely speak English, etc. It's all about the $ for CU's administration. Got to find a way to pay the six figure salaries of the proliferating administrators.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Transgender parishione... · 3 replies · +4 points
I think this person would not have considered a mosque because this person is a Christian. See how that works?
I clearly wasn't attacking all Christians, but the reality is that many Christians do not behave as Christ would when they discriminate against others they deem outside their moral universe. It's really not that complicated.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Transgender parishione... · 9 replies · +7 points
Actually, no, I don't know a mosque that would have taken this parishioner. But I wasn't TALKING about mosques, and neither is this article about mosques. It's about a church, and it's about CHRISTIANS, so that's why I made the comment that CHRISTIANS can act very unChrist-like.
Bringing up a mosque when the article is talking about a church is your attempt to deflect an argument with a red herring. Try harder to focus and stay on point. Thank you!
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Transgender parishione... · 16 replies · +23 points
Christians can act so unChrist-like. They really give him a bad name.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Michael J. Rush: Why w... · 0 replies · +27 points
Why do people think Boulder has such wonderful public transit infrastructure? I've never understood this. Boulder is not a compact town, except in the downtown area. It's not easily walkable. The buses are fine if you are not transferring. If you have to transfer, a 10 minute trip by car becomes 30 minutes or more by bus. So you want everyone to ride their bikes, eh? Great, if you enjoy bike riding or are fit enough to ride everywhere, or don't have phobias about getting hit by cars. But many people don't care to bike, or are not fit enough to ride everywhere (please, don't lecture me on how great for my health it will be to ride everywhere). I'm simply too clumsy to ride a bike everywhere--it's not a pretty sight.
So have some consideration for other people before you project your own life onto everyone else.
10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Jared Polis: Give dipl... · 0 replies · 0 points
"In Congress, I've been a strong supporter of nuclear arms reduction"
Not when it comes to Israeli nuclear weapons, you haven't. That is the elephant in the room, congressman. Iran's drive to acquire nuclear weapons has much to do with Israel's possession of hundreds of nukes. What makes sense would be to push for a nuclear free Middle East entirely. Linking Israeli disarmament with Iran's commitment to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty is a no-brainer. But I guess AIPAC wouldn't allow that, right Jared?
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