What we are dealing with

Estes Park would never make the Top Ten list of Smartest Communities in Colorado, and it might be a struggle for us to crack the top five towns intelligence-wise in Larimer County. Much of our local government is run like a rural public high-school Model UN club, with the cheerleaders and jocks providing cover for the lone scolarship winner to the nearby community college. Who runs the housing authority in town? One person. Who runs the hospital board? One person. Who runs the school? One person. Who runs the museum? One person. Who runs the library? One person. Who runs the media? WTFK? Patti aspires to it, but can't distinguish shit from Shinola. Who runs the planning commision? One person. Who runs the Chamber, VEP, every service organization? One person. Sure, there are however many warm bodies necessary to fill the seats that make up the board, but one person on that board calls the shots, and if someone attempts to challenge that authority, they are quickly shown the door. We are coming up on an April election, and we face the same question we face every two years: Who is going to run the town? Actually, this shouldn't be a question, because since 1917, the citizens should be in charge. We will now take a 5-minute break to laugh uproariously. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAAHAHA As long as we have hypocrites and wannabe "boss cause my momma told me I was a born leader"s living in town, which we be forever, the citizens will never be in charge. The current mayor is not yet strong, and was likely elected for this reason. Two of the incumbent trustees couldn't wait until the actual start of the campaign to announce their candidacies, so they are clearly jockeying before the gun goes off in a likely futile attempt to prove Ballot Issue 300 was all a bad dream. Kirby Hazelton unread, 11:23 AM (5 minutes ago)    to Travis Machalek, Steve Careccia Hi Travis and Steve, When time permits, could you please provide to me a list of all the rezoning applications that have come before the Town Board in the past ten years, back to 2015? I don't need great detail (at this point) -- maybe just the date, name of the project, rezoning request (from what to what), and outcome? I know you are both busy so please know this is not an urgent request. Thank you, Kirby So Zoning Change Queen Kirby is going to try mathing this out, letting the silly citizens know the town hasn't approved all that many zoning changes in the past (which is as it should be), rather than admitting she was wrong to oppose 300. And as long as EVUN maintains their permalocked website, Bill Brown will be unable to claim a change of heart, or a conversion to actually representing the will of the people. Hopefully, we will have other choices, because these two premature ejaculators are bad ones.

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