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Back when the Nature Conservancy was pretending to have to lobby the town board for vendor space in the Estes Park Visitor's Center, one of their selling points was that once they were in place, a real live expert on Rocky Mountain National Park would be available to answer visitor questions. Previously, they contended, or our town administrator contended, all questions related to Rocky Mountain National Park had to be deferred, because the volunteer staff wasn't qualified or authorized to answer them. Everyone who attended this sham hearing knew the town board would unanimously approve the Nature Conservancy becoming the sole vendor in the one place that gets ths highest guaranteed traffic every day of the year, so I hope they had to provide some type of sexual favors to staff, because otherwise this was an empty exercise all around, and the town bent over once again without having any feelings of self-worth to show for it: I entered the Visitor's Center today, and th...

You all know the story of Jonah, and the albatross tradition among whaling vessels can be easily searched on Google using the words "albatross" and "Cape Cod". Some people just have all the bad luck, even when they are completely and adequately equipped to handle this bad luck. Our previous town adminstator was so adept at handling major crises, the weather and the environment joined to dish him up much more chaos and destruction than his share, meaning long-term Estes Park residents now have to walk around permanently crippled emotionally whenever they get back-to-back days of rain, or smell smoke (even cigarette smoke). Whether the hospital will ever recover from all its real or pretend trauma is irrelevant, a simple thunderstorm or a curl of steam sends them into a tizzy of frantic handwringing, dredged up repeatedly during campaign season. It is perhaps enlightening to compare the pretend tempest in a teapot vis a vis the Farmer's Market getting cance...