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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
ORWELLIAN HISTORY by Phil Goodstein – December 2014 Naysayer
Columbine High School was in the news during the 1994–95 school year. Al Wilder, a veteran teacher, sought to give students a view outside of the system’s artificial and banal boundaries. He so showed his debate class 1900, a powerful movie by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci. It focused about life, growing up, fascism, resistance, friendship, and love. Included was a graphic scene about bought sex.
The result was horror and heresy. The students were receptive to the film. That was the problem. Their elders, led by Jefferson County’s premier lunatics, the school board, screamed with outrage. They made it plain that school was not a place to encourage eager youngsters to explore the world and question everything around them; on the contrary, it was to turn them into mindless zombies who readily accept the worst of the status quo. The Jefferson Public Schools consequently fired Wilder. Virtually nothing was said about his fate and the horrific world administrators gave students when the Columbine High School Massacre erupted at the academy in April 1999.
DEMOCRATS VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT by Phil Goodstein - December 2014 Naysayer
Washington has again acted to protect Colorado from state officials backed by environmentalists. In particular, the
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, drawing on the Endangered Species Act which passed under the Richard Nixon administration with the support of the Republican president, has declared the Gunnison sage grouse an endangered species. This decree to protect a local animal and its natural habitat has particularly provoked the ire of Governor John Hickenlooper. Sounding just like a states’ right Democrat, he has yelled that Washington is interfering with Colorado’s ability to destroy the climate and obliterate its wildlife. He echoes the laments of Roy Romer and Federico Peña 25 years ago when the Environmental Protection Agency ruled Two Forks Dam was an ecologically devastating project that violated the most basic laws guarding the integrity of the earth. In the process, George Bush I came across as a sterling environmentalist compared to those Democratic officeholders backed by the likes of the Sierra Club.
DENVER PRESCHOOL TAX by Phil Goodstein - December 2014 Naysayer
The Denver preschool tax once more narrowly gained voter authorization. Since its adoption in 2006, it has been used to fund a coalition of self-styled improvers and babysitters who have embraced preschools as both salvation and a business.
From the beginning, advocates of the preschool tax have not addressed the most fundamental of issues. If preschool is a positive good for society, why should it be in private hands? In particular, why should parents wanting their toddlers in preschool have to pay for enrolling them? Why should not preschools be part of a universal public school system? For that matter, why, instead of drawing on the reactionary sales tax, should they not be financed with the rest of the public school system? By once more avoiding these issues and perpetuating their empire, the champions of the preschool tax show themselves to be the Naysayer of the Month.
(The Naysayers will meet at Javier’s, northwest corner of W. 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, Saturday, December 6, 4:30 PM.)
Thursday, November 20, 2014
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT HAS UPDATED ITS WEBSITE
Community Planning and Development has updated its website to better communicate important information pertaining to plans and rezonings. These changes were made in response to community feedback.
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Alexandra Foster | Communications program manager
Community Planning & Development | City and County of Denver720.865.2969 Phone | alexandra.foster@denvergov.org DenverGov.org/CPD | @DenverCPD | Take our Survey |
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Next South City Park Neighborhood Association Meeting includes City Park Playground Proposal
When: Wednesday, November 19th
Time: 7-9pm
Where: Bluebird Theater (3317 E. Colfax)
Meeting Agenda
1) SCPNA Officers Election – 30-45 minute Q&A with members posing questions to our various candidates.
2) City Park Playground Proposal – We will consider a proposal to re-engage city agencies about replacing the Dustin Redd playground. Instead of regional destination scaled playground like what was proposed with the City Loop, this proposal asks for something that is just the scale of the existing playground and picnic area. To see the entire proposal, please visit www.scpna.org where it will posted.
3) Neighborhood updates on recent notifications about liquor license applications, potential property redevelopments, and other news from the newsletter. Some discussion to follow on these items.
4) Open conversation where members can discuss neighborhood issues for the remainder of the meeting.
5) Lost Lake after-meeting party where members will receive free admission to see The Soil and The Sun.
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We would like to re-engage Denver Parks and Recreation regarding replacing the Dustin Redd playground at City Park with a 1 to 2 acre community-scaled playground and not a regional destination scaled playground as proposed previously. The new playground should be ADA compliant, constructed with modern materials designed to survive with minimal maintenance for a number of years, as well as be engaging and exciting for the next generation of children that will play on it.
Our goals are:
* Budget for the design of the project in 2016
* Design the project in 2017
* Budget for construction of the project in 2018.
* Construct the project in 2018. Further, we would like on-going maintenance of the new playground to be included in the City Park budget.
Since this will be a community-scaled playground, the neighborhoods adjacent to City Park agree to actively participate in the design and creation of the new playground. We commit to electing or assigning representatives from each of the undersigned groups to work with the Denver Parks and Recreation.
The original creation of the Dustin Redd playground is an example of a vibrant community coming together to create an amazing playground which is used by thousands of families today. Our hope is to engage the same vibrant community to recreate a more modern playground. It is only fitting that this playground would continue to be called the Dustin Redd playground.
Together, we can create a new playground.
Saturday, November 15, 2014
All of Southeastern Colorado to be a Massive Electronic Warfare Testing and Training Center
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Friday, November 14, 2014
REPORT FROM METHADONE ALLEY (16TH and GAYLORD) Nov. 13, 2014
by Gerald Trumbule
As reported previously, my parking lot (4 spaces) is directly across the alley from the new Addiction Services drug dispensary located at 1620 Gaylord. We're told that about 150 addicts are serviced here daily. They haven't got the parking lot figured out yet, but they are working on it. Meanwhile, my lot seems to be a favorite (even though it's posted on all sides).
In this batch of photos from earlier in the month, screen grabs from video, my lot is at the bottom of the picture. Management at the dispensary said they were not able to identify their clients by their cars.
This next group is from Wednesday and Thursday
Prize winner for the day |
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO OPENS DRUG DISPENSARY IN "DRUG-FREE SCHOOL ZONE"
Clients wait in line for methadone at 1620 Gaylord St. |
It is not as if this property is unknown to the East High School students. For years they have used this parking lot as a place to smoke pot. Just last week approximately 30 students showed up for a fight. It looked like a "flash mob" to me. I called 911 but before I could even finish answering the operator's questions, the mob dispersed.
The neighbors want this drug dispensary closed. The tenant (ARTS) has a 4-year lease with the owner (Kolouch Properties).
Update 11/12/14: Apparently snow drives addicts crazy. Had 5 people try to park on my lot this morning. One person, standing on my lot, told me he did not have to move because he wasn't a car. His partner, in a wheel-chair, came out of the dispensary and called me a "real asshole".
I'll be publishing a list of names and phone numbers for you to call if you are concerned about this drug dispensary in the East High "drug-free zone".
Monday, November 10, 2014
YOU WANT THIS? SHOW UP.
Ten Ways the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Would Hurt Working Families in the U.S.
Edited by:
Dave Felice, CWA Local 7777 (Denver) and National Writers Union Local 1981
ELECTION COMMENTARY by Elizabeth Warren
National Trans-Pacific Partnership Team
Sunday, November 9, 2014
MORE MARIJUANA MUCH? (Part 3)
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
MARIJUANA MUCH? (Part 2)
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-voters/angry-voicemails-support-legal-pot-oregon-n240386
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6064798
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/local/dc-campaigners-make-final-push-to-legalize-marijuana/2014/11/03/0f42e088-63ab-11e4-ab86-46000e1d0035_video.html
http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/03/how-not-to-legalize-pot
Event: Parking in Denver: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Alternatives
Host: Frank Locantore - Uptown on the Hill
Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 05:30PM
Location: Tony P's Pizzeria
Address: 777 E. 17th Ave., Denver
Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks will moderate a panel that includes Public Works' Cindy Patton and Sean Mackin who will present the strategic parking plan for Denver. Other panelists, Ean Tafoya of Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee, and Gosia Kung, Executive Director of WalkDenver will round out the panel to talk about alternatives to driving and what is needed to help ameliorate parking tensions in Uptown Denver. Three car share companies will also be present to explain how they are helping to address parking problems and they are offering free memberships and free driving minutes to anyone who attends.
Join the Uptown on the Hill neighborhood association on Tuesday Nov. 11th for this discussion and to elect members to the board for Uptown and Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN). Tony P's is graciously providing a buffet for attendees.
Monday, November 3, 2014
The Heart of Historic East Denver - New Goodstein book and lecture dates
Halloween is over! Now Phil Goodstein can get around to the heart of Denver history. His new
book is
Curtis Park, Five Points, and Beyond: The Heart of Historic East Denver
(Denver: New Social Publications, 2014), ISBN 0–9860748–0–2, vi + 438 pp, $24.95. It probes the areas northeast of downtown, sections amazingly forgotten over the years.
No sooner had Denver started to recover from the bust in the wake of the Pikes Peak gold rush than real estate speculation became its foremost pursuit. This led to the creation of the city’s first park, Curtis Park, near 32nd and Curtis streets, in 1868. Within a few years, as Den-ver bustled, a distinctive suburban destination emerged at the five-pointed intersection of 26th Avenue, Wash-ington Street, 27th Street, and Welton Street. By the early 20th century, the latter enclave started to become the heart of black Denver. Other nearby elite residential areas, particularly Clements and San Rafael, likewise emerged as home of numerous African-Americans. Through the 20th century, the upheavals and transformations of these enclaves, along with Upper Larimer Street, were at the heart of Denver’s ethnic communities and the burgeon-ing preservation movement.
As is his wont, Goodstein looks at all aspects of the area in this extremely well-illustrated volume. He deals with the politics of confrontation and the civil rights move-ments. There are passing looks at alleged ghosts along with examinations of the impact of the 1976 Winter Olym-pics and the economics of the section. The overall im-pact is a panorama giving the reader a full grasp of Old East Denver and the city as a whole.
Goodstein will talk about the book on:
Saturday, November 8, 3:00 to 4:00 PM
Broadway Book Mall, 200 South Broadway (at the corner of Cedar Avenue)
Monday, November 10, 7:00–8:00 PM
Colfax Tattered Cover, Colfax and Elizabeth Street
Wednesday, November 12, 6:00–7:00 PM
Ebert School, Park Avenue West and Tremont Place. (Enter on the Tremont Place side.)
Saturday, December 6: 3:00 to 4:00 PM
Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson Street (southeast corner of West 43rd Avenue)
Curtis Park, Five Points, and Beyond
retails for $24.95. Mail orders, including tax and postage,
are $25.00, from New Social Publications, Box 18026, Denver 80218. Internet addicts can get it from capitolhillbooks.com and who_else@ATT@net. For more information, contact New Social Publications at 303/333–1095.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
MORE I-70
I-70 PROJECT: PUBLIC COMMENTS SUMMARIZED
Thaddeus J Tecza
Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 12:53 pm
Subject: Denver Comment on SDEIS
Notes from the New Drug War by Jessica LeRoux - Nov. 1, 2014
Legalization is why Im a recluse now... I dont enjoy spending my time in social settings which Ive paid to attend or made time to enjoy with people that matter to me, listening to the delusions, or complaints (or worse debating the moral shortcomings of former friends) from acquaintances who are flagrantly fucking these laws up. That is in fact how I've spend 80% of my social interactions for 18 months or so now...
NO i dont feel that sorry for the MED licensees & Blackmarketeers abusing the caregiver program who got caught up in the most recent DEA actions (and based on the sheer volume of people coming forward to confide in myself about their involvement, this is HUGE).
These busts are gonna be used by Pabon et al in collusion w/ the MIG set (whose members are involved in these busts, AGAIN) to push already written 2015 legislation that Kills the Caregiver program & punishes patients & doctors & does away with raised plant counts necessary for some serious ailments...
The caregiver program has been in jeopardy of state dismantling in favor of recreational taxes, and YOU FUCKS still had to make "your money" and divert weed out of state, rather than fighting the FUCKED laws that came outta A64 because you somehow "deserve" to still get paid by a plant... A plant that YOUR ACTIONS are fucking up all the good progress made by truly passionate cannabis activists.... FUCK YOU dirty greedy CANNABIS PROFITEERS...
all that said NOBODY should go to jail for a plant, but there will always be folks whose greed makes that Dream impossible.
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- DEMOCRATS VERSUS THE ENVIRONMENT by Phil Goodstein...
- DENVER PRESCHOOL TAX by Phil Goodstein - December ...
- COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT HAS UPDATED ITS...
- NEW: EASTHIGH NEIGHBORS
- Driveabout: Denver to Boulder via Hwy 36, Nov. 18,...
- Next South City Park Neighborhood Association Meet...
- All of Southeastern Colorado to be a Massive Elect...
- REPORT FROM METHADONE ALLEY (16TH and GAYLORD) Nov...
- UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO OPENS DRUG DISPENSARY IN "D...
- YOU WANT THIS? SHOW UP.
- SIGN-UP FOR EMAIL REMINDER OF RECYCLING SCHEDULE
- Ten Ways the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Would...
- ELECTION COMMENTARY by Elizabeth Warren
- MORE MARIJUANA MUCH? (Part 3)
- MARIJUANA MUCH? (Part 2)
- Event: Parking in Denver: How I Learned To Stop Wo...
- The Heart of Historic East Denver - New Goodstein ...
- MORE I-70
- I-70 PROJECT: PUBLIC COMMENTS SUMMARIZED
- Notes from the New Drug War by Jessica LeRoux - No...
- DENVER'S DROP OFF VOTE LOCATIONS (TOO LATE TO MAIL...
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