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Estes Park Citzens for Responsive Government - Five minute, 20-question survey   [For questions Q1 through Q6 and question Q10, circle one of the two choices provided] Example: Are you happy?  Yes or No [one of these two words will be circled, with an arrow and the word "sample" pointing to the question]   Q1.  Do you live or own property within the Estes Park town limits?  Yes or No   Q2.  Are you registered to vote in the state of Colorado?  Yes or No   Q3.  At present, are you willing or unwilling to sign a petition recalling current Estes Park mayor Wendy Koenig, circulation beginning no earlier than November 2020?  Willing or Unwilling   Q4.  At present, are you willing or unwilling to sign a petition recalling current Estes Park mayor pro-tem Patrick Martchink, circulation beginning no earlier than November 2020?  Willing or Unwilling   Q5.  At present, are you willing or unwilling to si...

The six-month "grace period" for newly-elected town board members is rapidly approaching, and recall petitions for the mayor and five of the six trustees can be placed in circulation as early as late October, provided language is approved. A recently-formed local committee, Citizens for Responsive Government, has created a questionnaire to gauge public sentiment for recalling any or all of the elected officials once it becomes possible to do so.  The form can be filled out anonymously, but contact information in the form of a valid email address or working telephone number is required.  Space is also provided on the form for opinions related to introducing a local ordinance making it mandatory for a criminal indictment or conviction prior to a recall, with a financial "general fund offset" to restore general fund depletion due to administrative expense, similar to a "carbon offset", invoiced to those organizing what impart...

About six months ago, when the "For Sale" sign went back up at 865 Moraine (the home of the former Soda Splash and the former Chicken Fried Latte/Antonio's Frozen Pizza Slice, both of which apparently opened so they could close - see the handbook on tax write-offs, or was this just poor management?), I posted something in a Facebook group asking whether things were perhaps not as cotton candy as first portrayed, when whoever (I have my theories) put up the sign promising "Donuts!/Coming Summer 2020".  I was quickly attacked, ridiculed, and shortly thereafter kicked out of that group, for merely raising the possibility that whoever (I have my theories) wasn't being entirely honest about how successful and well thought out the dream of building a donut shop across from a donut shop was, and how reality might interfere with narcoleptic, hashish-catalyzed dreams.  You can't have your unicorn fantasy dashed by some "truther" raised on reality, espec...

From now on, they will be known as the Washington Blackskins. Reached for comment, Estes Park's original historian laureate, Reginald Buckminster Wheaty, expressed no shock or disbelief.  "Hyah, hyah, let us be raisonable [affected English accent translated hereafter for clarity].  This is the 1960s.  [Editorial clarification:  It is not.  The man is stuck in the past.]  Everyone's doing it.  Everyone across the state is doing it.  We are no different from anyone else in our distrust of those of different hue.  So naturally, this is the correct stance to take.  Let's continue calling a spade a spade, and, heavens, let's continue calling a delicious Monte Cristo finger sandwich the definition of paradise.  More tea, please, Hattie.  Sorry you can't live in this neighborhood.  Hell, my dog is named "Blackie" because he is so dark and negroid-like, steals food from the table and had a bunch of babies we have to pick up the...

Hey everyone.  There's a new sheriff in town.  And he hates rednecks.  And he really, really hates privileged white people who keep voting themselves new privileged white people statues for later, wiser generations to topple. Trustee MacAlpine: Although there is little we agree upon politically, I trust you, as a former reference librarian at a major university, recognize the importance of accurate historic information, including, at a basic level, the correct spelling of first and last names. You would probably not appreciate being remembered 50 years down the line as Estes Park trustee "Barbara MacAlpone" [sic]. Recently, an ad hoc committee in town has been formed to honor the contribution of women to Estes Park's history, a proposal the board favored unanimously, and which I champion wholeheartedly.  Indeed, I was one of the few people arguing forcefully against the permanent removal of the memorial blue spruce trees (if they were diseased,...

Grand County , Tom.  Closer to Estes, and more relevant to the discussionwhich is more relevant.  You may want to check it out sometime, instead of forcing everyone to bow at the altar of your false god Breckenridge. Our neighbor to the west is home to 20,000 souls, spread out over an area the size of Rhode Island.  When I was there yesterday, the entire county, meaning everyone residing in Grand Lake, Granby, Fraser, Winter Park, Hot Sulphur, Kremmling, etc., etc., was reporting 22 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one post-mortem diagnosis based on organ testing since testing began in March, or an average of 5 cases per month, which has since been updated to 24 cases and the same lone post-mortem diagnosis as of this morning, for those nattering nabobs of negativity.  Over the entire county.   Grand Lake, like Estes Park, is a mecca for out-of-state tourists each summer.  Grand County does not break down cases by community, as Larimer County does,...

No underlying health problems, young and fit by all available metric and measure.  Passed away from coronavirus at the age of 41 on July 5, 2020.  The last three months of his life, including the ARDS, the medically-induced coma, the blot clots, the leg amputation, the pacemaker insertion, the inability to get placed on the waiting list for a double lung transplant, the inability to gain strength and consolation from family visits, the inability to hug his son or wife near the end, all of these horrific sequelae heaped on someone Debbie said wouldn't die, all of these griefs and tragedies you wouldn't, even on your darkest day, wish on your worst enemy. Debbie Does Disease, Disastrously Debbie said no one who was healthy would ever die from this disease.  Ever.  No one.  Nick Cordero was healthy.  Nick Cordero died from this disease.  Hundreds of other healthy people, indeed, thousands of other healthy people, will end up dying from this disease....