Glo-Ball Warning
So the "Riverdale" sign entering town across from the Trail-Gazette is fixed. No big deal, no one hemorrhaged or plotted a coup, it was pointed out and quickly corrected and everyone is happy.
This is the way government should work (minus making the mistake in the first place, minus the town administrator cancelling all future appointments because his ego won't allow questioning of sublime omnipotence, or some kind of potence).
Honolulu sends out premature "Bend Over and Kiss Your S-hole Goodbye" texts, Estes Park wants Riverside, among our oldest downtown streets, disappeared. Just like people predicting the daily end of the bull market: It's not that Honolulu was necessarily wrong, but whoever pushed that particular button will be punished, mostly for being early. See the "Estes Park/Estes Valley" post, which points out the same problem. When you want something to go away, you devalue its identity. Personally, I would like to see the title of "town administrator" changed to "town crier", for no good reason, but what good reason does anyone have for referring to a non-existent "Estes Valley" instead of a perfectly good "Estes Park (or "Estes Basin", if "Park" somehow started charting on the s-hole list).
Folks who want our town board to join in the zero-carbon promise or zero dark 30 renewable energy agreement or whatever it's called must be loving yet another "Winter Carnival" held in shirt-sleeve weather. Real snow and winter weather would actually make the whole artificial celebration unbearable. Good thing we didn't hire the ice sculpting team this year. Meanwhile, other CAST communities we choose for some reason to compare ourselves with (despite not having any downhill skiing within 30 miles, are watching tourist dollars evaporate like liquid nitrogen under a heat lamp) with lift-ticket sales down 10% from last year. So Frank Theis should be penning odes to Johanna Darden for failing his bunny hill plan, because anointed prophets are right, even when some of the reasons they give at the time may be considered (by the dumb crowd) wrong. Elkhorn Inc. never passed the smell test, similar to EPIC, whose supporters violently criticized the smart people in town for how stupid they were, until they were forced to recognize (through a lack of contributions, as everyone began voting with their closed wallets) their proposed downtown location was a horrible idea, at which point they turned on it, admitted they would have been bankrupt in five years' time, and came running back to those who knew better all along, asking for land. Sorry, PEPTIC (or EPILEPTIC, or whatever you'll rebrand yourselves as now), but I don't provide quarter to the vanquished, or to idiots. Never have, never will. Reusch Auditorium at the Y has a perfectly acceptable stage.
Estes Park's tree-huggers, along with the misguided long-haired friends of Jesus crowd, need to start campaigning for less snow-removal equipment and more fire-fighting equipment, because, despite itself, Estes Park is going to become a year-round destination, not due to VEP or CDIV, but because of circumstances beyond their control, or their ability to understand. Pull up the tape where I dismissed the Loop "forward thinkers" a few years ago as not being forward thinking enough to incorporate self-driving cars and drone delivery of beer and pizza into their equation. Now pull up the latest news about GM producing an automobile without a steering wheel by 2019. We won't even have the right of way acquired for the Loop by 2019.
We need qualified people, educated people, pragmatic people, to make the tough decisions, as well as run day-to-day ops. A completion certificate from Western Kentucky CC ain't a-gonna cut it no more. I have nothing against community college graduates, but they should either go back to school or stand down, because the mere size of Estes Park's population allows for better choices, and good intentions or free time should no longer serve as the be-all and end-all for people campaigning for, or appointed to, public roles. Estes Park is not high school, despite appearances to the contrary, and elections should not continue devolving into popularity contests.
Honolulu sends out premature "Bend Over and Kiss Your S-hole Goodbye" texts, Estes Park wants Riverside, among our oldest downtown streets, disappeared. Just like people predicting the daily end of the bull market: It's not that Honolulu was necessarily wrong, but whoever pushed that particular button will be punished, mostly for being early. See the "Estes Park/Estes Valley" post, which points out the same problem. When you want something to go away, you devalue its identity. Personally, I would like to see the title of "town administrator" changed to "town crier", for no good reason, but what good reason does anyone have for referring to a non-existent "Estes Valley" instead of a perfectly good "Estes Park (or "Estes Basin", if "Park" somehow started charting on the s-hole list).
Folks who want our town board to join in the zero-carbon promise or zero dark 30 renewable energy agreement or whatever it's called must be loving yet another "Winter Carnival" held in shirt-sleeve weather. Real snow and winter weather would actually make the whole artificial celebration unbearable. Good thing we didn't hire the ice sculpting team this year. Meanwhile, other CAST communities we choose for some reason to compare ourselves with (despite not having any downhill skiing within 30 miles, are watching tourist dollars evaporate like liquid nitrogen under a heat lamp) with lift-ticket sales down 10% from last year. So Frank Theis should be penning odes to Johanna Darden for failing his bunny hill plan, because anointed prophets are right, even when some of the reasons they give at the time may be considered (by the dumb crowd) wrong. Elkhorn Inc. never passed the smell test, similar to EPIC, whose supporters violently criticized the smart people in town for how stupid they were, until they were forced to recognize (through a lack of contributions, as everyone began voting with their closed wallets) their proposed downtown location was a horrible idea, at which point they turned on it, admitted they would have been bankrupt in five years' time, and came running back to those who knew better all along, asking for land. Sorry, PEPTIC (or EPILEPTIC, or whatever you'll rebrand yourselves as now), but I don't provide quarter to the vanquished, or to idiots. Never have, never will. Reusch Auditorium at the Y has a perfectly acceptable stage.
Estes Park's tree-huggers, along with the misguided long-haired friends of Jesus crowd, need to start campaigning for less snow-removal equipment and more fire-fighting equipment, because, despite itself, Estes Park is going to become a year-round destination, not due to VEP or CDIV, but because of circumstances beyond their control, or their ability to understand. Pull up the tape where I dismissed the Loop "forward thinkers" a few years ago as not being forward thinking enough to incorporate self-driving cars and drone delivery of beer and pizza into their equation. Now pull up the latest news about GM producing an automobile without a steering wheel by 2019. We won't even have the right of way acquired for the Loop by 2019.
We need qualified people, educated people, pragmatic people, to make the tough decisions, as well as run day-to-day ops. A completion certificate from Western Kentucky CC ain't a-gonna cut it no more. I have nothing against community college graduates, but they should either go back to school or stand down, because the mere size of Estes Park's population allows for better choices, and good intentions or free time should no longer serve as the be-all and end-all for people campaigning for, or appointed to, public roles. Estes Park is not high school, despite appearances to the contrary, and elections should not continue devolving into popularity contests.
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