Sounds like he protected his daughter and also did the world a favor. Too bad he invited this crap into his life by being a junkie in the first place.

The CWA has been mostly a gab fest for echo chamber leftists since I've been in Boulder; and its thinkers hardly utting edge in any discipline. I had no idea the university provided so much funding for it. CU should just drop it and spend the resources on more cultural and academic opportunities for its students. Let the Boulder community keep running it if they choose to.

I'm sure he did. And the lawyer probably explained how it read, not how the City thought it read. That's how contracts work, just not with the City of Boulder.

Don't kid yourself, this government is supported by an activist cadre that generates public comments on demand whenever the city wants to push something though, on every issue. I've been at multiple public meetings where everyone directly affected filled up the meeting room and it was 90% against, only to have somebody walk in toward the end of the meeting and hand a big stack of pre-written "for" comments to the moderator. Later in the paper or the official record is says the hearing input was overwhelmingly positive.

If people don't understand by now how elitist and indifferent to public opinion Boulder government is, they never will.

This is Boulder city government once again being reprehensible. They admit the rules were ambiguous - in other words, Pedersen's good faith interpretation was also correct - yet let him rely on that in business dealings with tenants, also acting in good faith. Then they claim the right to change the wording to remove that ambiguity, i.e., make it read like they thought it should read but that Pedersen had sufficient reason to interpret differently.

The city's very act of changing the language is proof that Pedersen is right! If he wasn't right, they wouldn't have to change the language! Good Lord!

Their "defense" that their other affordable housing partners, BHP and Thistle, with whom they have done hundreds of units over years and years, understand the language correctly, is laughable. Of course their long time partner does it the way they have long ago verbally worked out. What would you expect? That doesn't mean a new partner should be required to have ESP to figure out that the city means something different in it's language than how it reads!

Boulder city government has become a clown show.

And no I don't have any interest in this Junction thing or know this guy Pedersen in any way. I don't have anything riding on this than my frustration that my city government has become abysmal and abusive.

haha. exactly.

(besides, some of these people might be realtors, and they'll say anything. :)

I don't believe the sellers were acting legally either. Are they not being prosecuted also?

Implicit in the author's kind of thinking, really, is a belief that cop's lives are worth less than certain citizen's lives. It's tragic, but if they hadn't been able to shoot the young man to bring him down quickly, he likely would have killed or maimed (brain damage maybe?) one of the officers with that hammer.

I don't see why cops' lives should be considered worth less than an average citizen's, especially one whose actions led to all this in the first place, and had already tried to kill someone with a knife.

From your tone and way of thinking it's pretty clear who is actually struggling with adolescence.