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Since I have been "erased" by the estes.org website

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Emails to the town board through my regular account are now blocked from public view. So much for transparency. But what the hell do you readers care? It's just free news to you that you can edify yourself with as you sit on your couches eating Fritos, doing nothing except allowing your democracy to circle down the drain while the front line fighters get mowed down on your behalf. Hi all - Two things that I would be interested in the town media exploring when they get the time: 1) Those of you who have ever driven on our nation's interstate highway system may be familiar with the occasional annoying practice of some truck drivers occupying both lanes of the interstate (passing lane and driving lane) on the two-lane sections and not passing each other, just driving side by side for miles and miles and miles (generally well below the posted speed limit for normal driving conditions) without allowing anyone behind them to pass. I'm sure this is illegal, but without enf...
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Brown Cenac and Younglund just did what???

Our three geriatric Board members just voted not to extend the board meeting past 10 o'clock. This may be the first time in the history of the town board (since it first met in 1917) that the trustees waved the white flag and said there were too tired to perform their duties. Cory Booker just stood up and spoke for 25 straight hours on the Senate floor, but Trustee Lead Ass Nervous Laugh (aka Trustee Drone On and On) can't be up past his bedtime? It is sad that the mayor feels compelled to talk mindlessly about every topic that comes up for discussion, it is sad that Trustee Drone On and On uses Liaison Time to tell people to spend more time looking at particular items in the Consent Agenda to recognize how great the town is, but it is especially sad when they can't bring themselves to finish a board meeting they themselves contribute most to making run beyond three hours. What message did this vote send to town staff and stakeholders, beyond "We are petulant and l...
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So apparently Jody Street is now accusing me of lying

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The Trail-Gazette is a nonsense publication, run by clowns. I don't have the time or frankly the ability to generate fake emails. For the still-skeptics and non-believers (and Jody Street's family, if he has any) I am happy to meet at the local library or your favorite coffee shop and open the entire email chain.
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Welcome Bill Hanbury

To a town and a dynamic you are certainly quite familiar with, that of information and truth being hidden from the public, and only a select few being granted access to critical decision-making data. We still don't know what happened during the aborted CEO search, and likely never will, but when its not your money (meaning when it doesn't come directly from you via door to door shakedown, but rather comes indirectly from you because visitors don't have as much left to spend after VEP extorts their share at the entrance gate), you are a mushroom in every sense of the word, and you and VEP can run things with Jeffrey Epstein-level impunity. Plus you don't live here, which is critical because those of us who live here are automatically disqualified from any input on matters or positions of importance. Our stupidity in thinking living here and having skin in the game should be a requirement for making decisions that impact other residents' lives is outmoded and juven...
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A century later, and the description still applies

to over 100 EP residents and board members: "It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." Remember to vote for the smashers. You can identify them by their repeated assurances that they aren't smashers.
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Our top two vote getters are going to destroy the organizations they represent

Because when you get the most votes, you are entitled to re-create these organizations in your own image. And the self-entitled, tone-deaf leaders of these organizations, who think spending two hours every couple of weeks is the same thing as being in charge, have already walked right into their traps. Belle "Ring My" Morris is not only the lifetime president of TAB, she is TAB. What she thinks is what all TAB members (drones, worker bees, borg) think, as part of the collective. If they think otherwise, she let's them know who calls the shots, and how to toe the line or start walkin'.
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Businesses have a life and death

Just like Estes Park individuals, Estes Park businesses are born and die. Some live a long time. Some are still alive. Some last only a few months, or a few years. But to pretend otherwise, to be casual with assigning dates of operation, is lazy history. Take Copeland Lake Lodge, south of Estes Park on Highway 7, and closer to Allens Park. It was built in 1914, and when it sold in December 1938, it ceased to exist as Copeland Lake Lodge. The new owners renamed it Wild Basin Lodge, and started advertising it as "Wild Basin Lodge, formerly Copeland Lake Lodge" by the summer of 1939 (my guess is, it was primarily a summer operation, as so many smaller lodges were at the time, and some still are). Inertia is a real thing, and I'm sure there were some folks at the time who still accidentally and automatically referred to it as Copeland Lake Lodge well into the 1940s. I still hear media outlets refer to the microblogging app "X" as Twitter, despite the fact t...
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