Wanting to support your community and get civically engaged? Do you also like warm cookies? I suppose the Venn Diagram for these two things would likely show a lot of overlap. I’m right there in the middle anyway.
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Realigning the main drag through Sterling left a couple parcels of land orphaned. It wasn’t necessarily that they looked worse than they did before — one of them was a former trailer park where the only vestiges of its former life were bare concrete pads with socketless meter boxes poking up here and there. The highway realignment didn’t make them ugly, it made them uglier: it left a bit of land whose shape wouldn’t be too conducive to anything useful. Yet another empty patch of dirt on my daily commute.
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In Stanley Kubrik’s The Shining, Jack Nicholson’s character says to the Overlook’s ghost bartender, “I’m the kind of man who likes to know who’s buying their drinks, Lloyd.”
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I wish the Colorado 2nd Amendment Caucus well. I support the idea.
I just don’t think it’s going to matter.
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They take your TABOR refund, not by removing it from your hand, but by taking away the possibility there will be one in the first place.
Gaines: How the legislature performed magic to make your TABOR refund disappear Read More »
Back in 2021, our governor, upon passage of SB 21-260 proclaimed that we’d finally fix our “damn roads”.
Gaines: Are your ‘damn roads’ fixed yet? Have they turned a single shovel? Read More »
I won’t go into the gory details (if you want more, I linked to Rachel Gabel’s contemporaneous op ed below), but back in January of this year, I testified at a Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners meeting. I was quite critical of the way that they handled their business.
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Pretend that your employer accidentally overpaid you, say $20 extra a month for a couple years. Neither of you notice until one day you get an email telling you about the mistake. The mistake has been fixed and your pay will be $20 less going forward. Also, you now owe your employer $240. Not a pleasant thing to consider.
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I read the Fort Morgan Times article (linked) after seeing our AG Phil Weiser tweet about how meaningful it was for him to be out for the groundbreaking of a new housing development sponsored by Cargill and meant to help provide affordable housing to their employees.
I think that, among other things, one-party dominance in this state has led to an arrogance on the part of the ruling party.
