Turning campaign laws into a political weapon

Have our municipal elections in Longmont suddenly become so corrupt and rotten that we need a draconian version of the already confusing state and federal fair campaign laws to bludgeon our neighbors over the head with, in case they step out of line? I don’t think so. But that’s what the Longmont Fair Campaign Practices Act seems to be turning into – just another political weapon.

Longmont needs you (and your car) to help to make history this Friday for satellite from space photo

How many cars, when placed in a lettered row in a high school parking lot, does it take to spell out the letter "L" in the name Longmont? Five. How many does it take to spell out Longmont? Forty-four. Add the word "Google" and you need a total of 82 cars.

Read the article by the Longmont Examiner about the community effort being planned for a photo shoot from space by Longmont's own Digital Globe in our city's continued plan to win the Google Fiber Project...

Levisons "Chicago" moment

The June 8, 2010 Longmont City Council meeting might turn out to be one of the more dissected, now and in the future.  This is Part 3 (of hopefully 3) of what occurred that night, this time it's the Sarah Levison Show.  She had a "Chicago" moment.  Not the city, the band.  Remember the song that had the line "hard for me to say I'm sorry"?  Switch the word hard with impossible.

Sammoury shines in otherwise ludicrous council meeting

This is basically Part 2 of 3 of the June 8, 2010 Longmont City Council meeting.  First was "Longmont loons on parade" where I showed a group of citizens basically making themselves look like the south end of a horse.  Thankfully, now I'll go from shameful to uplifting, as I present you the presentation that Councilmember Alex Sammoury made.  And attention nutjobs:  his name rhymes with the spanish word amore, not Toyota Camry.  This video is solid gold, the best of the group (mainly because the next one of Councilmember Sarah Levison is mostly pathetic).

Longmont loons on parade

Enjoy the video below of highlights of Public Invited To Be Heard at the June 8, 2010 Longmont City Council meeting.  It's bad enough unedited, but I had to add my special touch to help get you all the way through it.

Communique to City Council

To me (and I’m writing this in first person to emphasize that these remarks are mine) the dust-up over the appointment of a Longmont City Council member to the board of the Colorado Municipal League is not worth the flared tempers it ignites when the real issue of contention—especially during a stubborn recession like the one we’re in that requires serious cuts in the city budget--is whether the taxpayers of Longmont should continue throwing their money (upwards of $45,000 a year) at this primarily social organization which also performs lobbying. CML depends solely on dues it collects from nearly every city and town in Colorado. Last year the take totaled around $1.765 million, yet CML pays no property taxes on the $1.594 million headquarters property it owns at 1144 Sherman Street in downtown Denver to help support city services and the schools. I say cut the umbilical cord and use these CML dues locally—where the need is greater.

Free to be deranged and delusional

You may have noticed our motto on the right as "a mentally balanced community of adult contributors".  If on the other hand you'd like to see what the alternative looks like, I can point you in that direction if you prefer.

Message to City Council

Re: the proposed use of cameras in Longmont to nail traffic violators, “Local police field camera concerns,” Times-Call 5-27-10.

I think that, at some point in a supposedly civilized culture, we’ve got to ask ourselves just how far we should go in removing the human element from our law enforcement activities as we go about policing one another in the public domain, and instead rely more and more on robots and machines to carry out those duties and serve that purpose.