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To all of you who are in favor of ending the extraction and burning of fossil fuels: Surely you live off the grid since scalable wind and solar is only possible thanks to natural gas. And of course, you only wear clothes made of cotton, wool, hemp or silk, since the stretch in your yoga pants and the nylon in your outerwear are made from petrochemicals. And obviously, you don’t care about feeding the world since tractors run on gasoline and fertilizers are made from natural gas. So you must eat solely from your organic, hand-farmed vegetable garden. Is this really the life you want to lead?
Christian Nationalism? Nothing Christian about this movement. A “minister” in Tennessee recently staged a book burning. Echoes of Nazi Germany?
Many of our forefathers were Deists. Many of those who settled in our country came because they wanted the freedom to worship as they chose. That tenet still applies to this country.
Many of these “Christian Nationalists” subscribe to the QAnon lies. One of them is unable to carry a bible right side up. Stop and think about what these people propose to do — take your vote away, attack our Capitol, spread lies and take away women’s rights. Be very careful.
If you’re voting Republican this fall, no need to cast your ballot, you can simply think about it!
This letter is intended to express the views of a South Boulder household that has not necessarily followed the flurry of technical arguments both in favor of and against developing the CU South site. From our perspective, we can accept some of the merits of a reasonable approach to additional growth in Boulder, provided the utilities, services, amenities, road capacity and potential hazards have been sufficiently addressed.
However, it must be readily apparent that the case of the southeast quadrant of Boulder is quite exceptional in that the majority of residents actually live in a floodplain, and the safety and well-being of the thousands of those currently residing in this sector must take precedence in any decision-making regarding future land use options.
We’re not in a position to categorically state that the flood mitigation envisioned as part of the new project will be inadequate and expose us to even greater risk, we’re not cynical to a point of claiming that the hydrological measures included in the development proposal are nothing more than a bone thrown to pacify the “SEBNA no-growthers.” Instead, our vote to repeal the agreement is simply aimed at forcing the City Council to once again pursue those strategies, unfortunately shelved during the CU South deliberations, focused exclusively on obtaining the acreage needed to implement the most effective and resilient flood mitigation solution, and this completely independently of CU’s pressure to build out its site. In other words, flood mitigation in Southeast Boulder must be the primordial overarching concern and not relegated to the status of a political bargaining chip during a development negotiation.
City Councilperson Bob Yates and his Orwellian-named “Keep our Libraries” group are engaging in the worst kind of negative campaigning to torch ballot initiative 6C, which would create a sustainably funded library district in Boulder and Boulder County.
As a 25-plus-year resident of Boulder (and as a librarian with nearly 15 years as a substitute in the Boulder Public Library), I find these actions inconceivable. Each year city departments (the library is one) engage in an annual beg-a-thon for funding. Depending on what is happening in the city, and based on the sales tax revenues for the previous year, the library gets more or less, but rarely enough to meet the demand, as Boulder (and Boulder County) have continued to grow and the city tries to meet other critical demands.
The library has automated many services, library workers wear more hats than ever before, and the library foundation steps in to pay for nearly all programming, but despite all these efforts, Boulder Public Library’s funding is neither adequate nor sustainable. Librarians are like teachers — they work in the library because they believe in the mission — but just because library workers provide great service (often with a smile!), it does not mean that the library is well-funded nor that we are meeting the needs of the community, especially those who might benefit most.
Creating a library district would mean Boulder Public Library would be one department off of the city’s books, one department that would no longer be a cost center for the city. Why do Bob Yates and his group cry the equivalent of “everything is fine/change is scary/no new taxes!”? It’s unconscionable politics. Vote “yes” on 6C, fund our libraries, and let Yates know that we expect more from our politicians.
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