Just asking . . .

Why, in this modern age, does it take so long--usually over two months after work starts--to replace a road bridge in Boulder County? Recent examples: the bridge just completed on 95th Street over Boulder Creek; now one on Niwot Road over the Feeder Canal, and another one on 95th Street just south of Longmont over Lefthand Creek—all with closures and some with seemingly lengthy detours. Still being worked on is a bridge over Boulder Creek at Highway 52 and east county line. Fortunately, one lane has been kept open there for traffic.

Most noise coming from airport neighbors

Most of the noise regarding Longmont’s Vance Brand Airport isn’t coming from the airport itself, but from neighbors who aren’t Longmont residents or taxpayers. 

City and County barking up wrong tree

With apologies to the renowned poet Joyce Kilmer, I too think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. There may be justifiable reasons for totally eradicating a certain variety of these living organisms, but in at least one case I have my doubts.

Democrats having LBJ moments

"...I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party..."  President Lyndon B. Johnson - March 31, 1968

With the recent announcement by Democrat Michigan congressman Bart Stupak that he wont seek reelection, it continues to be clearer that these members of the House, Senate, and some state Governors (like our own Bill Ritter) put party above country.  If they're not prostituting themselves for special deals for their states or big money for their campaigns (like our own Betsy Markey and the Service Employees International Union - SEIU), they are taking themselves out and refusing to have their constituents judge them on their recent voting record.  True cowardice.

Some on Left show hypocrisy on race relations

The following appeared in the Sunday April 4, 2010 Times-Call as a Guest Opinion.  Further comments follow at the bottom.

I know I can’t be the only one who’s sick and tired of hearing this feigned outrage from the Left about racism and bigotry in America.  The recent guest opinion of Tom deMers and the ongoing vitriol from other local and national mouthpieces has further upped the ante of the Left’s hypocrisy when it comes to race relations.  This laughably coming from the pro-slavery party of the 1800’s, deniers of funding for a Washington D.C. charter school made up mostly of African-American low income children, and pushers of abortion in the inner cities.  Yet they mistakenly think they have some moral high ground in this area.  Based on what I ask, the old “lie told enough times” theory?

Longmont in talks to leave Boulder County?

LONGMONT - An idea that many in Longmont say is long overdue.  A City and County of Longmont?  Not exactly.

Longmont's Mayor Bryan Baum and Firestone's Mayor Chad Auer, along with administrators from Mead, Dacono, Lyons, and Frederick are in talks of creating a new county - with the working name "St. Vrain County".

It would encompass those cities plus extend westward to the Grand County line to include the Eldora Ski Area, which has complained for decades of living under the "iron fist of Boulder County".