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From February until May 30, this is the only significant recording of Estes Park's history for the year 2020, reduced to a few anonymous numbers.  Not local elections, not state supreme court decisions, not grants received or rejected.  This table, and how it is interpreted, and what predictive value it possesses, has a stranglehold on our future.  Three individuals on this list have been identified (well, two, the third just by profession) by newspaper accounts or press releases, and one Estes Park resident not on this list, whose case was grouped with Boulder County, self-identified. Some people know the names of all eight individuals, most people do not.  Some people in Estes Park have access to this information, most do not.  This is also Estes Park's history in a nutshell, where status and pecking order is conferred by information - Who has access to it, who is left in the dark. How can the Jane Doe public, provided with this table, make in informed...

Of the town board coming to a decision and "speaking as one". Transcription:  I do agree with your disgust with the majority of the board, however, I do want to clarify the vote was 4 to 3, so please do not group us all... Perhaps during that training session Ms. Youngland sat through two weeks ago, the one on how to behave as a board member, her brain was on mute the entire time.  Elected in April, going rogue in May.  Cindy, Cindy, Cindy.  I'm guessing that's not short for Cinderella.  Maybe Prima donna.  Magic 8-ball says:  "Recall in your future".

Enact a mask ordinance during the slow month of May, then discard the mask ordinance (or rather, yield to Larimer County, which essentially requires no masks, just "encourages" them, which means they won't be worn) for the much busier month of June.  Do I have that right?  Not a great start, and not a great way to mobilize the four votes you always have in your back pocket. And Ken Zornes voted in favor of this, took a 180?  Ouch.  And Cindy Younglund is way out of her element when it comes to liquor ordinances.  No, that wasn't a question.  Cindy, just a hint - You just got on the board, and you have never been a fixture in the audience at town board meetings.  Not sure you have ever attended one, unless it was because you stumbled into town hall looking for your knitting class.  Let other, more experienced board members, make the motions on quasi-judicial matters.  Unless you are a genius, or know a lot about liquor ordinances. But I...

When I posted the link to this article on Instagram, the number of comments from people who believed vaccine distribution was being held up by an advertising campaign ran into the high 70s.  Another 15 comments were from people who swore they wouldn't get the vaccine even after Pfizer settled on the proper roll-out in the press. Folks, there is no vaccine yet not to vaccinate yourself with.  Hold off on the tin-foil hat talk until after the phase III trials.

Gerald "Jerry" Sloan, passed away this morning, age 78, from Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease. Was the only decent thing left in Salt Lake City, besides Saltair and Doki Doki

in the United States, which is tragic.  However, when that artificial milestone is passed, it is important to recognize the source of the majority of those deaths.  Twelve states, either on the east coast or the high population "four-corners" of Florida, Texas, Illinois/Michigan, and California, are contributing 75% to the count.  Thirty-eight states contribute the remaining 25%, and six of these states - Montana, Alaska, Hawaii, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota, contribute less than 0.2%.  The virus circulating in all these states is the same, barring some inconsequential nucleotide changes, but the impact is vastly different, largely, if not entirely, because of: (1) lower population densities, thus keeping SARS-CoV-2 smoldering instead of blazing into wildfire infernos, and (2) ability to keep outsiders out, and keep insiders from going out and bringing SARS-CoV-2 back.  So every state and every community should approach reopening differently, and Estes Pa...

by local hotel occupancy rate.  From April's anemic 7% occupancy, my guess is, given the power of the Estes Lodging Association, this mask ordinance will be reversed two weeks ago, with another week removed prior to that for seasonal adjustment.