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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder County\'s Four... · 0 replies · +3 points
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Candidates at PLAN-Bou... · 0 replies · +26 points
NO on Suzanne Jones - incumbent.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - From the Editorial Adv... · 0 replies · +9 points
But that's nothing new -- Our Fine City Leaders been playing that same card with municipalization (sorry, "Boulder's Energy Future") for years now, and similarly with the so-called "right-sizing" (happily portraying any opposition to "right-sizing" as anti-bike).
Painting complex issues in simplistic black and white terms? This is not what effective leadership looks like. Instead, this is what flows from the thought-monoculture that has dominated city leadership in recent years.
Vote 'em out -- no thanks to both incumbent council members and council-appointed board members running for council.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - PLAN-Boulder candidate... · 1 reply · +13 points
Apparently not trying to provide a forum where regular working folks might actually be able to attend.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Anna-Marie Berger: Mak... · 1 reply · +1 points
Let's be honest here -- I see far more cyclists ignoring the rules of the road than I see drivers doing so. And if we normalize to the number of each I see on the roads, things only look worse for cyclists.
To be clear: I'm an avid cyclist. I ride thousands of miles a year around Boulder and Boulder County.
But if it's not okay for cars to roll through stop signs and ignore the rules of the road, surely it's not okay for cyclists to do so, either, right?
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Merrill Glustrom: Addi... · 0 replies · +20 points
Merrill -- are you, perchance, related to Leslie Glustrom?
The same Leslie Glustrom that had the gall to suggest (in a public meeting, even!) that if county residents didn't like what Boulder was trying to force upon them via municipalization, they should move?
Hmm. Does your "treat others in this debate with respect" suggestion apply to debate about other issues, too? Does it also extend to members of your own family?
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - John Price: Pay counci... · 0 replies · +35 points
A bit of history:
"In 2007, Boulder voters narrowly rejected a ballot issue that would have raised council members' pay from $170 a meeting to $500 with a $1,000-a-month ceiling. It was defeated by just 49 votes out of nearly 16,300 cast."
"In 2008, a measure that created a monthly salary of $1,000, provided a council member attended at least one meeting, was defeated by a wider margin, with 56.7 percent of voters opposing it."
Let's keep it rolling, folks!
Looking forward to voting no on this one, too!
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Merrill Glustrom: Addi... · 0 replies · +19 points
Oh my yes. And honesty and transparency from the city with respect to the impact of right-sizing. What level of degraded service for existing users is acceptable? How are is that going to be measured? If target thresholds are not met, is the city committed to rolling back the changes?
"If people choose to yell, casting disrespect, over a relatively minor issue, and then get their way, what does that say about our democracy?"
If Our Fine City Leaders choose to use words like "Living Laboratory" and "experiment" as little more than marketing fodder to sell the decisions that they've already made to a sometimes-gullible public, what does that say about our democracy?
"I'm asking that we treat others in this debate with respect, and that we allow the data to be our guide."
Amen. So given that we don't appear to have terribly good before data, how do we go about doing that?
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Open Boulder announces... · 0 replies · +17 points
NO on Aaron Brockett - current Planning Board member.
NO on Bill Rigler - current Transportation Advisory Board member.
8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Having hit meeting cap... · 0 replies · +25 points
A bit of history:
"In 2007, Boulder voters narrowly rejected a ballot issue that would have raised council members' pay from $170 a meeting to $500 with a $1,000-a-month ceiling. It was defeated by just 49 votes out of nearly 16,300 cast."
"In 2008, a measure that created a monthly salary of $1,000, provided a council member attended at least one meeting, was defeated by a wider margin, with 56.7 percent of voters opposing it."
Let's keep it rolling, folks!
Looking forward to voting no on this one, too!
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