Monthly Archives: February 2010

I am asking the public to consider driving more efficient cars. It is horrible to continue to pollute our world by having big cars that are constantly needing gas. Everyone is always saying how much they want to save the world, and make a change. Let this wish come true by having an efficient car. People could really make a change.
First, with an efficient car, drivers won’t have to always stop for gas. This is because efficient cars don’t need as much gas to run! They can go on much longer without needing fuel. Secondly, the people won’t have to depend on other countries as much for oil. With efficient cars, oil would not be needed as much. There wouldn’t be as much energy security. Wouldn’t you like to live in an independent country? Continue reading →

Sixty-one years ago I was born in Colorado then graduated from CU Boulder. I also have a law degree and have fought against injustice my entire career. Never have I seen such a gross violation of civil liberties as demonstrated at Monday’s Boulder City Council meeting. (See Front Page Camera, Tuesday, February 23, 2010.) Continue reading →

What a shame it would be to take vindication on an animal who, out of pain and fear, responded in a very natural way.  In a clinical environment it is common to expect that any animal may respond aggressively and, certainly, veterinarians and their staff are well aware of this and should be expected to take the necessary precautions.  It is really unfortunate for the vet tech that she was bitten so badly, however, it does “come with the territory”.  Continue reading →

I am encouraging the government and general public to have marijuana be legalized. If marijuana is legalized, the economy would raise higher than normal. They could tax marijuana when bought to supply stuff for community. There can be more legal jobs from selling marijuana. Maybe even more vacation time because less time arresting people smoking marijuana. If police didn’t spend so much time arresting people they could have more free time. This might stop some drugs because if this is legal then the people doing illegal drugs might switch to marijuana. Food business will get more money from this idea like taco bell and chick fillet. Continue reading →

As the health care funding reform bill is drawing what may be its last breath, it again occurs to me that we continue to be oblivious to the real issues. Access to health care has somehow become the panacea that obviates the sad but true fact that the primary predictors of any ones optimum health and longevity are genes, lifestyle choices, and a modicum of good luck (plus not being too old). Continue reading →

I would like to express my gratitude for Michael Bennet (D-CO), my U.S. Senator, and for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) for sponsoring a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asking that he bring to the Senate, a vote on a public option health care plan. Continue reading →

This week the state of Hawai’i formerly proposed further changes in the political status of the “Kingdom of Hawai’i.” The fight for sovereignty for the kanaka maoli (Native Hawai’ian) has been continuous lasting for over a hundred years ever since the overthrow of the Hawai’ian monarchy. A few years ago sovereignty leaders went before the United Nations appealing to the U.N. leadership to reverse the status quo of Hawai’i and begin the process (through a state-wide plebiscite) of returning Hawai’i to kingdom status. The fight for Koholawe was a centerpiece of Hawai’ian aspiration. Continue reading →

Rosemary Cooke was critical of Christian organizations that went to Haiti to help those suffering from the affects of the earthquake who also wanted to help people out in spiritual ways (“Keep rich cultures intact”, Open Forum, February 19). But Christian organizations that do this do so because they believe that meeting people’s spiritual needs is just as important as meeting their physical ones. Continue reading →

Today’s Camera’s headlines provide the most compelling argument for health care reform in ages and its not what you might think. Its not the ” Dems and GOP fail to reach” article that we have seen for months. Rather it is the “Deer Creek Middle School shooting” that commands our attention. This incident vividly illustrates how citizens with serious physical and mental illnesses can not access the reasonable health care that any decent nation would provide. Continue reading →

It’s now been 2 months that I have been bringing in a large, empty dijan-mustard container to Nick-N-Willy’s Pizza Restaurant on Pearl Street. The owner Willy, gave me the jar and suggested he fill it with the dressing I love, because I was purchasing 10 little plastic salad-dressing containers every couple of days. He thought it would be more green and convenient to fill up a large jar for the salad-dressing and I could bring the jar back and forth to the restaurant for refills. Continue reading →

We’d like to thank all the people involved Friday night that helped bring Steve Priem to safety from the back country behind Eldora ski area. He had fallen while cross country skiing and was not able to get out on his own. Continue reading →

I am concerned about the people who do not have a job and cannot find one so they have NO income. Most of the jobs available are for men, such as road work, building bridges, construction, etc, and they have children to feed. Most of these citizens are women.
A single payer system would be the best option for the country. Continue reading →

It is time to make the kind of changes that will grow a new big economy around a healthcare single payer healthy enterprise. Any new shift will mean transfer of who gets the money and which enterprise makes its money. If you don’t make this shift now, it will happen on its own in the form of resource depletion, climate chaos and economic disintegration of its own making, and no one, not even you will be able to stop the collapse. This will be the final collapse that violation of all ecological economic sense has wrought. This is the perfect time before the perfect storm to make a shift for the good of the people and all earth community, while making the big bucks that do not violate the health of the earth. Without health in the earth there can be no health for people, including yourselves. Continue reading →

I am writing to discuss a law I that would like to have enforced in Colorado. I would like the smoking of cigarettes and cigars in Colorado to be illegal. We can not afford to be dealing with health care prices that are as high as the moon right now. Our economy is to low and there are way too many smokers having heart and lung problems. Nobody can really afford health care at the moment because many people do not have jobs. Continue reading →

Oh, no, Mr. Bill; no more hummers on the street. What are all the you-know-what-envy, industrial strength Yuppies going to do for a ride? The most environmentally ridiculous, two parking space taking, ostentatious, ego bound auto ever foisted on the civilian public will no longer be produced since a deal with a Chinese company fell through. Continue reading →

To further elaborate on Erika Stutzman’s February 25th editorial “Regulations are tough enough,” critics of payday lending industry have unfairly painted these short-term loans “predatory.” Continue reading →

I would like to respond to today’s article about Spork with two simple statements:

1) I am not in favor of Spork being euthanized or kenneled for life. I never have been.
2) I am in favor of changes to the Lafayette vicious dog law that takes situations such as this one into account. Continue reading →

The Jasper Animal Hospital is a wonderful place for people to take pets they love for the best of care. I have been taking my pets there for five years including numerous foster kittens. The staff is nothing short of amazing. Although I don’t know Dr. Dodge other than through the clinic (I am not defending a personal friend here), I know Dr. Dodge well enough to know he would never support the needless death of any animal. We have had conversations about cases where other people were ready to have pets put down for illness or old age, but he found a way around it so the pet could live a good life a while longer. I’m sure Dr. Dodge and his staff would like to see Spork live out a healthy life in full. Continue reading →

I feel the need to speak up for Ms. Walker and Spork. After reading the article about the needless death he faces, I saw several mishaps that could have been avoided. The main one is the improper handling of the dog for his banding. Speaking as a vet tech, the dog should have been on a exam table and the vet tech should have had help from another tech. Continue reading →

The Camera’s Guest commentary of February 20 indicates just how easy it is to spread misinformation regarding global climate change. For the sake of brevity I’ll address just two of the bogus claims made by the author. Continue reading →