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Grand County

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Grand County , Tom.  Closer to Estes, and more relevant to the discussionwhich is more relevant.  You may want to check it out sometime, instead of forcing everyone to bow at the altar of your false god Breckenridge. Our neighbor to the west is home to 20,000 souls, spread out over an area the size of Rhode Island.  When I was there yesterday, the entire county, meaning everyone residing in Grand Lake, Granby, Fraser, Winter Park, Hot Sulphur, Kremmling, etc., etc., was reporting 22 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one post-mortem diagnosis based on organ testing since testing began in March, or an average of 5 cases per month, which has since been updated to 24 cases and the same lone post-mortem diagnosis as of this morning, for those nattering nabobs of negativity.  Over the entire county.   Grand Lake, like Estes Park, is a mecca for out-of-state tourists each summer.  Grand County does not break down cases by community, as Larimer County does,...

Debbie lied, Nick Cordero died

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No underlying health problems, young and fit by all available metric and measure.  Passed away from coronavirus at the age of 41 on July 5, 2020.  The last three months of his life, including the ARDS, the medically-induced coma, the blot clots, the leg amputation, the pacemaker insertion, the inability to get placed on the waiting list for a double lung transplant, the inability to gain strength and consolation from family visits, the inability to hug his son or wife near the end, all of these horrific sequelae heaped on someone Debbie said wouldn't die, all of these griefs and tragedies you wouldn't, even on your darkest day, wish on your worst enemy. Debbie Does Disease, Disastrously Debbie said no one who was healthy would ever die from this disease.  Ever.  No one.  Nick Cordero was healthy.  Nick Cordero died from this disease.  Hundreds of other healthy people, indeed, thousands of other healthy people, will end up dying from this disease....

The Blind Men and the Elephant

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Most honorable Mayor and Trustees: "What's that smell?  Is it coffee?  Oh, no, it's very much not coffee" In speaking with my fellow esteemed downtown business folks yesterday after the Fourth of July holiday sans fireworks, most of them expressed feeling very anus-y, like they were very near the elephant's anus. Yours in managing what we can control, meaning recalls. Estes Park Downtown Mushroom (meaning left in the dark) Merchants Association

The historic nonsense of "Bird & Jim"

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Our current museum director is too timid to even wander into his office, let alone out of it, while our Falstaffian historian laureate is probably too busy scanning the front of the menu when he ventures out for more nosh and brew, but whoever "Bird & Jim" consulted for their Big Bold history served up for public consumption on the back of their menus should be allowed to finish the sixth grade before contributing more to Estes Park folklore. "How far can we stretch this tripe before they stop buying it?" Nowhere in extant photos of Isabella Bird or descriptions of James Nugent were either known to wear a sombrero, so the graphic of "someone" going full Cabo on horseback, likely stolen from an old "Man of La Mancha" playbill, should be round-filed.  The "original structure of the Sundeck built in 1926" is pure concocted bullshit.  The only historically accurate word rescued from that entire phrase is "in".  The Sund...

Whatever

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Translation:  Husband/wife have health issues.  Trustee Zornes, in my limited interactions, was at least a decent human being, even though his concern for Cody during the recall was crocodile tears.  But at least he was honest about wanting Walker out, unlike board stiff Norris.  The take home lesson here is that hair on fire harpies have short half-lives in this community.  Welcome Webermeier.

Remind me again why we have a historian laureate

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Cause it sure isn't to preserve historic structures. The McCreery/James Elkhorn "homestead" is likely one of the three oldest structures in Estes Park. You can argue a start date all you want, but it predates the earliest portion of the Elkhorn Lodge by two decades.  So tonight when the town board signs off on razing the Elkhorn homestead and quasi-preserving the Elkhorn Lodge, what exactly has been accomplished?  The Elkhorn Lodge is a work in three pieces, constructed over 10 years, the final piece added to compete with the just-completed Stanley Hotel.  In other words, an afterthought, a nose thumb, not a pioneer home in an uncertain world.  But whatever, I'm sure our eminent self-appointed historian will wax philosophical when asked to write the grand opening speech for the Elkhorn Wedding Venue and Time Share Mega-Plex.

Tempest, meet Teapot

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So what if the real reason the new mayor wants to do away with board email transparency is not because she is scared her constituents won't be able to communicate effectively with her, but because she is scared her temper, occasional lapses in impulse control, and need for perfection (plus the cover-ups and expunging required to create perfection) might get the best of her?