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Corrections: In the original text, the Oct. 2 cover story, “Who killed the antifracking ballot measures,” listed 350.org among the organizations funded by Democracy Alliance, and later stated that all of the organizations listed had referred to the use of “clean, green, low-carbon fuels,” including natural gas, implicating 350.org among those organizations. We apologize to 350.org. While there is documentation that 350.org has received funding from some of the organizations affiliated with Democracy Alliance, they’re not

included here or in the glossary because we found, despite receiving funding from pronatural gas organizations, there is nothing in their positions papers that indicates they support natural gas as a bridge fuel. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

In our Oct. 2 article, “Nemisi, Boulder’s Public Art Selection Committee faces a post-YES! Public,” we wrote “This is the same panel and the same public that only months ago clashed over a much-ridiculed proposal to install giant red letters spelling the word ‘yes’ on the library.” We

neglected to mention that membership on that panel had rotated, and that only one member of its current roster, Felicia Furman, had been part of the decision about the Big Red Yes. Boulder Weekly regrets the error.

Response to Oct. 2 cover story

Thank you for the well-written article “Who Killed the Anti-Fracking see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad The mendacity of GMO purveyors

by Jim Hightower

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enacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity.

Brand-name food peddlers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbyists, lawyers, campaign donations, PR hypesters and political manipulators so they can genetically (and dangerously) alter the dinner we put on our family tables, without bothering to tell

us which items they’ve messed with.

With practically no public notice, their first deception was to get Washington to OK the production and introduction of genetically modified organisms into corn, canola, soy and other crops. Then they quietly pushed to prevent federal regulators from requiring that these tampered Frankenfoods be labeled as containing GMOs. Next, they tried a grand deception insisting that foods tainted with GMOs qualify for the national “organic” label.

Even our usually-submissive regulators balked at that one. But, look out, for here they come again! Big Food’s industry front group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, is now demanding that foods with geneticallyengineered ingredients be allowed to use the word “natural” on their packages.

Natural? Let’s see — one, these biotech mutations are not products of

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

nature, but of corporate technicians; and two, the plants are manufactured in corporate labs by extracting genes from a foreign plant or even an animal, then splicing those genes into the manufactured creature. The very DNA of this man-made “food” is altered, with no understanding of the long-term environmental or health consequences.

A Twinkie is more natural than that!

They’re perverting both our language and nature’s reality. To oppose these profiteers’ tenacious mendaciousness, contact the Environmental Working Group: www.ewg.org.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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an democracy just consist of voting at the ballot box when we spend much of our time living under a dictatorship at the workplace?

Increasingly, Americans are saying no.

Under the radar, many are creating collective, cooperative kinds of economic institutions that aren’t your usual capitalist top-down enterprise. About 13 million Americans are in companies with some form of worker ownership.

At least 40 percent of American society — 130 million people — are involved in co-ops and credit unions.

These developments were the subject of the second annual “Community Wealth Building” conference on Sept.

27 at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado in Aurora. Host committee members included The Denver Foundation, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Co-Operate Colorado and the Anschutz Community Campus Partnership.

Some 250 people attended from a variety of ethnic and social movement backgrounds.

Translation was provided by mobile devices for Spanish and Maay Maay (a Somali Bantu language) speakers.

Audience members were encouraged to raise their hands if they didn’t understand the terminology and just say “literacy moment.”

The highlight of the conference was a presentation by Michael Peck, the North American delegate for Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC) in Spain’s Basque country. It is a 60-year-old experiment in economic democracy consisting of some 120 worker-owned cooperatives involving nearly 100,000 workers and aligned with another 130 allied coops in the region. It was founded by a Catholic

priest when Spain was a fascist dictatorship in a severely impoverished area devastated by the country’s civil war.

The MCC co-ops are ruled by “one worker, one share, one vote” and no one outside MCC holds any shares. Twenty percent of worker-owners can fire a boss. Those in management roles are appointed for a four-year term and must be a worker-owner within the cooperative. Worker-owners are protected, in their role as non-supervisory employees, by a union committee that negotiates a collective bargaining agreement with management.

Worker-owners get to vote on strategy, management and business planning. The highestpaid managers’ salaries are capped at six to eight times what the lowestpaid workers make.

That’s a contrast with U.S. corporations where CEOs now receive 380 times more than the average worker.

MCC is the top industrial group in the Basque region, is ranked 10th in Spain and has a presence in 70 countries. It manufactures everything from industrial machine parts to pressure cookers and home appliances.

It has its own chain of supermarkets, bank, university and mutual insurance company.

In 2009, the United Steelworkers Union (USW), the largest industrial union in the United States, announced a formal partnership with Mondragon.

As manufacturing companies continue to move plants overseas, the USW wants to bring the Mondragon cooperative model to America’s devastated Rust Belt.

USW President Leo Gerard said, “Too often we have seen Wall Street hollow out companies by draining their cash and assets and hollow out communities by shedding jobs and shuttering

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letters LETTERS from Page 7

Ballot Measures.” It is great to know what happened. If natural gas will last another hundred years we need to remember that water aquifers will be needed for thousands. If we must frack, and I know we do not need to, at least let’s protect our water resources and the health of the public.

If this country wanted to install more solar and wind all we need to do is look at Germany to see what they did to have 75 percent of their power come from renewables. We simply need to decide to do it and pay solar owners a fair price for surplus power which we are not now doing. Wind power is abundant and it alone (or solar alone) could provide all the power we need with only the carbon needed to install them. Electricity moves a car with about 90 percent efficiency. Gasoline only uses about 27 percent of its power to move your car.

The rest goes into heat and air pollution. Electric vehicles have no motor oil to change and electricity is about one-third the cost of gas per mile.

I bought an all electric car and love it. Plugging in at home, its range meets all my local needs and when we do go on a very long trip we have another car as the majority of families do. Recent technology allows for electric cars to store power when extra exists on the grid and feed it back when needed without impairing needed driving range. This can provide a small payback to the owner and makes wind and solar available 24 hours per day. I

encourage you to take an electric car for a test drive.

Dave Murray/Boulder Your comprehensive article this week on the terminated fracking ballot initiatives was a welcome addition to the public dialogue on this important issue. Much appreciated.

Yes, it seems that the State’s top Democrats’ tenure in office was brought into potential vulnerability.

The next question might be what happens if Hickenlooper isn’t re-elected with the ‘Governor’s’ Commission?

Perhaps he didn’t think of this, but we should. No one seems to be writing about this in the press.

If you want to continue down this path, after so thoroughly addressing the larger political subject, you might focus on the likelihood of and current hazards that fracking has on underground water for the short and long term. Other than the residents and farmers located near drilling sites’ contaminations and horrors, I can’t seem to find any good reading on this important subject.

Rob Moore/via Internet Talk about putting on a clinic! The staff of the Boulder Weekly just raised the bar on independent investigational reporting! You did not just open Pandora’s box, you shredded it. The staff has done an excellent job of illussee LETTERS Page 10

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trating the contamination of our democracy and has shown how our elected officials are more concerned with their own self interest than serving their constituents! This issue is definitely going into my scrap book!

Thanks for the untold story that you would never get from the corporate media. P.S. Last Friday I swore I saw Jared and Hick driving around Boulder County sipping frack fluid and snatching up copies of Oct. 2 issue of BW hoping that no one reads it. Keep on kicking ass!

Rod Brueske/Erie Thank you for your exposé in the Oct. 2 edition. The plain sense of all that would turn even a nun into an apathetic cynic.

I’ve been saying for a while that the “task” of the Governor’s “task force” is to force us loyal, innocent individuals to accept whatever industry desires. I’ve served on task forces, and the interesting fact here is that the sitting governor is likely to ignore any recommendation he didn’t feed the group. What can we expect his pro-business opponent to do if elected?

One must wonder how and by whom the original “gas is great” idea was whispered into the ears of the Gang of Four or their ilk. If anyone now believes politics can coexist with the people, I would be happy to show him or her this land in Florida. It’s only wet part of the year, see.

Gregory Iwan/Longmont

BW’s recent fracking petition article was Pulitzer-grade material! The latest in a string of terrific investigative reporting! Way to go! Keep on truckin’!

George A. Johnson/via Internet

The BW’s article “Who killed the vote on fracking,” needs to mine several important veins of related inquiry.

Instead, it spends time with a “woe-isus, money-buys-all, corrupt political insider deals,” vibe that runs throughout the piece.

To explain, a closer review of the Politico article it cites from this past summer reveals that Polis seeks the Democratic Party’s Committee Chairmanship. If he has powerful leadership goals within the party, he likely dropped his anti-fracking measures as a compromise to build more power in the party. The BW article needs to explore Polis’s political agenda with the national Democratic party.

Also, Ritter’s 2010 decision not to seek re-election looks like a party strong-arm tactic and not a personal decision. After he came out with a few oil and gas regulations, which the industry decried, it was best for Colorado and national Democrats to switch support to the friendlier oil and gas man Hicklenlooper to maintain its control in this bellwether state.

Next, the uncovering of which industries support which environmental groups and how these groups are fundsee LETTERS Page 11

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plants. We need a new business model that invests in workers and invests in communities.”

In Cleveland, Ohio, there are a bunch of worker-owned co-ops called the Evergreen Cooperatives which are partly modeled after Mondragon. They were started with a mix of foundation money, public funds and private investment capital. They include a solar installation company, a laundry and a greenhouse capable of producing more than five million heads of lettuce a year.

The laundry cleans more than four million pounds of laundry per year and employs 30 people. It is ecologically advanced, using two-thirds less energy and water than conventional industrial laundries.

They are getting hospitals and universities in the area to purchase sup-

plies, goods and services from these companies. This is “community wealth building” where co-ops work with “anchor institutions” (public or nonprofit institutions like a local hospital that won’t move to China) to create a more equitable and decent neighborhood.

In break-out sessions, we heard about local worker co-ops: a taxi company in Denver, a birth center in Boulder and a group of home care providers in Fort Collins. They discussed the frustrations of a democratic workplace but concluded that they enjoy having more control over their lives.

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letters ed is important news, but it is hardly ground-breaking that the shift from coal to natural gas money drives the environmental or green agenda. It’s the sausage-making process of legislating where change is frustratingly incremental and generally unseemly given that money sets the agenda. Ideological purity is an ideal, but ideals need dough that often eats at the purity.

Speaking of money, when or where is this purported model of the Gang of Four a particularly novel insight?

Wealthy donors on both the Left and the Right have always given money to their favored parties and candidates to influence their pet projects. It was only with campaign finance reform that parties and candidates are strictly limited in how much money they can receive, giving rise to the underhanded, serpentine world of 527s. In a way the procedure changed to more nefarious methods in the name of transparency — something legislation often does — but the pooling of wealthy-donor money has a long history in American law making before and after this Gang of Four.

In contrast to the article’s general tone, the one overriding message from Obama’s 2008 primary victory over Clinton was that small donors who give continuously and who network with their valuable time can overwhelm the well-heeled coffers of the established Democratic plutocrats.

Obama’s organizational strategy in 2008 and then cemented in 2012 runs counter to the Colorado model. Thus, the model now is a few big donors, yes, of course, thousands to millions of small donors, absolutely. This is the window of opportunity the anti-fracking supporters should recognize.

Finally, it was the public referendum in the early 2000s that required Xcel to meet basic alternative energy requirements. After it was held to task, Xcel opened another coal plant in Pueblo.

These days it trumpets its own “leading wind-producing utility” horn without ever recognizing that Colorado citizens forced it to develop new energies.

Again, it was the citizens first who demanded and created action.

Thus, while the article does begin to recognize the strange bedfellows the policy process creates, it can dig deeper into the layers of political bargaining that is all too apparent given Polis and Hickenlooper’s meteoric rise, Ritter’s sudden opt-out, the Democratic party’s need to secure seats, and big environmental groups need for big money to maintain their own political clout.

It’s clear, to play the game you have to be a player with some big-boy Boulder Weekly

money, but not all is lost if you know how the legislative system operates. The BW article seems to adhere to the textbook version of American legislating, and when it uncovers a few wealthy individuals or antithetical groups partnering to pursue compartmentalized goals, it offers only a bewildered and contemptuous tone.

As an alternative, knowledge creates opportunities, and now we the public

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know who better to not trust and how next to proceed. Polis is interested in Polis. The Democratic Party seeks first to maintain its power and control.

Now, the public needs to understand its exclusive needs independent of a person or a party, especially in our oddly unique if not corrupted representative republic.

Thanks for the article. It’s a start.

Lance Denning/Boulder

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Despite all our fervent efforts greenhouse gasses continue to increase each year. The critical missing ingredients are financial incentives for efficiency and renewables large enough to spur rapid progress. Such incentives are necessary to help compensate for fossil fuels being essentially subsidized by not paying costs of their massive pollution. The best strategy is to start locally. Then eventually Xcel, the State and federal government may follow our lead.

Boulder City is an exceptional example in taking the lead, with extra incentives for weatherizing homes and free follow-up assistance, saving lots of money in lower energy bills. It would not have been possible without their modest “Climate Action Plan” tax on electric bills to fund it.

This election, Lafayette has a similar opportunity and will vote for their “Clean Energy Initiative” #2D. It levies a small one- to two-percent fee on electric/gas bills to fund a program providing increased rebates and incentives for energy upgrades, especially for lower income. The city has not and cannot lower its greenhouse gases without the funding. However, this is a difficult decision for Lafayette voters to brave, when they have THREE other tax increases on their ballot, plus those for Boulder County and BVSD! Will Lafayette fail to approve item 2D, only to wait many years for the special opportunity again? It’s time to think ahead for all our cities, so we can choose to demonstrate real energy independence and not need to frack everywhere.

John C. Bollinger, PE, CEM/ Lafayette

not otherwise found in nature, using equipment that most people have never heard of.

While I’m no scientist, what I understand is that genetic engineering is done in a laboratory, which is different from the cross breeding of subspecies into hybrid plants (some apple trees).

The life forms that biotech industries create are often patented so that the foods that are grown cannot produce seeds for farmers to use for planting crops in the future.

As patented inventions, biotech companies like Monsanto, Dow and Syngenta keep farmers reliant on their seeds, but also control who, when and how they get studied.

Further, independent research is not required by our government before the GMOs are released onto the market.

Very little, if any, independent longterm research has been done on the effects of GMOs on humans. Many scientists that have done research on GMOs finding potential harm that could occur to its consumers are threatened by lawsuits, aggressive stalkers and discredited with rhetoric in the media.

The politicizing of scientific research around genetically modified organisms by biotech companies is one of the many reasons I will be voting for Proposition 105 to label — not ban — GMOs this November.

If the people in 64 countries around the world continue to reap the social, environmental and economic values of knowing which of their foods have GMOs in them, the people of Colorado would benefit, as well.

Adam Howell/Durango, Colo.

We have the right to know if our food is GMO

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently being negotiated behind closed doors between the United States and eleven other countries, will have enormous impacts on Americans.

The TPP goes far beyond the purview of traditional trade pacts (like cutting tariffs) and imposes harmful restraints on many of our domestic policies including financial regulation, energy, costs of medicines, food safety, immigration, Internet freedom and more (www.exposethetpp.org). If local, state and national governments pass environmental, health or consumer laws that result in lost profits for foreign corporations, these governments are subject to huge fines. In short, these corporate-driven trade deals are an assault on democracy

At the polls this November, I will be among the many registered voters who agree that when you shop at the grocery store, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or products produced with GMOs should be labeled.

I’m proud to live in Colorado knowing that most people around me care about their health. One example is our people have the lowest rate of obesity of any other state in the U.S., according to the United Health Foundation.

Caring about your health means knowing what’s in the food that you are buying at the grocery stores.

Genetic modification is the artificial mutation, insertion or deletion of genes in an organism to meet desirable traits

Rep. Polis: Oppose Fast Track, Stand Up for Democracy

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letters The Obama Administration has asked for Fast Track Authority (FTA) to push the TPP through Congress.

Under Fast Track, normal Congressional voting rules are suspended, amendments are banned and debate is limited. Fast Track allows the President to write legislation to change all U.S. laws needed to conform with the agreements, skirt congressional review and directly submit this legislation for a vote. Fast Track also allows the president to sign trade agreement before Congress even votes on them.

Can this really be true in a “democracy”? It sounds more like dictatorial rule. And this is on an agreement virtually written by 600 multinational corporations with no citizen input.

For obvious reasons, a wide array of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious and social justice organizations oppose the TTP and Fast Track (www.citizenstrade.org).

Although 151 House Democrats have opposed Fast Track for the TPP, Representative Jared Polis has not.

Contact Representative Polis at 303484-9596 or polis.house.gov and ask him to oppose Fast Track and represent ordinary people, not rich corporations.

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Without our veterans and those who made the ultimate sacrifice, where would America be today? It is anyone’s guess, however certainly not the Freedom and Liberty we enjoy. We have ownership, jobs, health care, cars and any number of opportunities. We fought for freedom over a few centuries.

There are those who would take away what we have as Americans. We continue to maintain an armed force to protect our boarders so we can continue to enjoy what we do have. Something to give serious thought to.

Our men and women in uniform stand ready and willing to rise to those who would take away our freedom. Of those who survived the battles of years past and present, many come home broken, in need of help as was promised. Where does this help come from? It comes from Veterans Affairs, a government-run agency. But in view of scandalous indiscretions, many veterans are simply tossed aside in a “hurry up and wait” situation. Many die just waiting for help. What is wrong with this picture? Improprieties and interpretation of who gets what and for what, torn bodies, PTSD, cancer. Oh, just let them wait. Maybe they will die. Is this how our veterans should be treated? The American people need to stand up, be counted and Boulder Weekly

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Oh the games people play with your medical dollars, long before the Affordable Care Act, i.e, Obamacare, was implemented, the insurance companies and the government were playing very deceiving games with your medical bills, This practice will continue under the Affordable Care Act. Let me explain: Recently, a hospital administrator explained to me that when the hospital bills the insurance companies or Medicare they will receive on average 38 percent of the amount billed. This percentage may vary in different areas but it will be close to this amount.

Now let’s do the math using an imaginary example. Let’s say you have an insurance plan with a $1,000 deductible followed by an 80/20-percent division once the deductible is met. To make the math simple let’s use even figures and say your medical bill was $11,000. You are charged the $1,000 deductible and the $10,000 that remains is split in your 80/20 plan.

You are expected to pay $2,000 more for a total of $3,000 and the insurance provider “covers” the other $8,000. If the medical provider will only receive about 38 percent of the amount billed to the insurance carrier the carrier will pay $3040 ($8,000 X 38 percent = $3040). Thus the medical provider will receive $6,040: $3,000 paid by you and $3,040 paid by the insurance provider.

This is called 80/20-percent insurance coverage with a $1,000 deductible. I don’t think I would call that funny math, I would call it flat out deception. Honesty would refer to it as a 50/50-percent plan, but who would pay big money for that?

Now the medical providers, knowing what percentage they are actually going to get paid, must raise their prices so that they will get the payment they need. Therefore we have skyrocketing medical bills caused by insurance providers and government.

To make this scenario worse, if a medical provider allows self-pay clients to just pay the amount that the provider would receive if the client were insured, the insurance company and government will often “punish” the medical provider for not charging the full amount charged to the “covered” clients.

As government takes more control, this situation is only going to get worse.

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that time again … time to exercise our greatest privilege and responsibility as citizens by voting. As has become the norm, we have Democratic, Republican, Independent, Green Party and Libertarian candidates on the ballot, along with a host of important ballot measures that will determine how we proceed on several important issues.

Unfortunately, the issue many believe to be the most important for Colorado’s future will not be decided on this year’s ballot. As everyone is aware by now, the anti-fracking measures were traded away in a last minute compromise between Congressman Jared Polis and Governor John Hickenlooper. We won’t rehash all the reasons for that trade here.

If you are interested in more information on the fate of the fracking measures, you can go back and read our 12,000-word explanation on our website (“Who killed the anti-fracking ballot measures?” Cover story, Oct. 2).

But have no doubt, this omission from the ballot makes it a very tough voting year for a great many people in Colorado. Here’s why.

Global warming is real. In as little as 25 to 30 years, if we do not radically change our ways with regards to greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth is expected to pass its global warming tipping point. In other words, we will pass a point of no return and the planet will be lost or so radically altered as to weather patterns and where food grows etc., that we won’t be able to recognize it or its geopolitical patterns.

The current shale oil and gas drilling/fracking boom that is spreading all across our country and to the rest of the world is opening up massive supplies of cheap natural gas and oil that will last for more than a hundred years, which is more than enough to drive us over the global warming cliff, not to mention contaminate our water and air while severely impacting our quality of life, our property values and our natural places. Our only hope is to restrain development of this shale resource as to create only a short, perhaps 10-year, 14 October 9, 2014

bridge to a world powered by zero-carbon renewables. If we never drilled another well, we already have plenty for such a bridge.

Governor John Hickenlooper, Senator Mark Udall and Congressman Jared Polis are all Democrats who are willingly driving us over that cliff. Their Republican counterparts are equally enthusiastic about the oil and gas industry. Not more enthusiastic, equally enthusiastic, and that is what makes voting this year difficult.

We at Boulder Weekly have no desire to be single-issue endorsers. We believe that gay rights and women’s rights, the economy and jobs, racism and homelessness are very important issues, and in those areas we feel that Democratic candidates tend to be superior to their Republican challengers.

But at the same time, the thought of endorsing people who so rabidly support the oil and gas industry in this day and age — in some instances transparently for politically self-serving reasons — and whom if elected would be in power for as much as 20 percent of the time we have left before we hit the global warming point of no return, seems irresponsible and, frankly, repugnant.

Nothing on the global warming front will ever change if we continue to vote for subpar, pro-fossil fuel Democratic Senate and Congressional candidates simply because we fear that

to do otherwise might result in Republicans taking over the House or Senate. Democrats beholden to the oil and gas industry who destroy the planet are no better than Republicans beholden to the oil and gas industry who destroy the planet.

It’s not a football game. If it requires selling out the environment and the public’s health in order to win an election, then winning is rendered meaningless because the cost is simply too high and the benefits too small.

Colorado can and must do better.

So here is the bottom line. In an effort to inform our readers, by way of our endorsements, we have devised a new tool for this most difficult of election years.

We know that for some voters, oil/ gas/fracking/global warming is the litmus test for supporting a candidate. We understand this position. As important as other issues are, they won’t matter if we kill the planet. The days when Colorado Democrats can give the oil and gas industry whatever it wants in exchange for the industry keeping its money on the sidelines during election years is over.

For that reason, we will be using an asterisk (*) system this year. For instance, we will endorse Mark Udall because we don’t think it would be good for the country or foreign policy to have the Senate and House controlled by

Republican majorities. But we will add an asterisk beside his name to denote that — for those of us who simply cannot, in good conscience, continue to support candidates whose energy policies are increasing global warming — another choice is highly recommended.

In addition to using an asterisk, you will notice that we have endorsed a variety of parties. For example, the Green Party is polling close to 5 percent. The party needs 10 percent of the vote statewide to achieve major party status and earn a place near the top of the ballot for subsequent elections. So with Hickenlooper and Beauprez both being unacceptable candidates, we think this would be a really important time to drop a vote for the Green Party candidate and position that party to play a more robust role in our political process in the future.

And finally, we want to encourage everyone to vote. We understand many of you were disheartened by the political maneuvering that killed the anti-fracking ballot measures. We also know that many more of you are being encouraged to throw up your hands and stay home on Election Day by all the negative advertising.

But remember, one of the primary reasons both major parties and their consultants use negative advertising is exactly because it causes people to lose interest and not vote, and that is what they want. The idea behind this antidemocracy ploy being that the fewer people who vote, the easier it is to steal an election simply by turning out the base even if it is only a small minority of registered voters.

So don’t let them win in such a manner. Don’t let the professional politicians and their hired-gun pollsters and consultants manipulate you into not voting.

Fill out that mail-in ballot or go to the polls and send them a message instead. Let them know that you expect more from your elected leaders than simply being less bad than the other side.

Good voting.

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✓ * Mark Udall ❑ Cory Gardner Gaylon Kent Raúl Acosta Bill Hammons Steve Shogan

Mark Udall has done a lot of things right in the six years since he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He crafted the “Not My Boss’s Business Act” in response to the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby’s case against paying for certain forms of birth control to say that women should continue to have access to affordable contraception. He’s working on equal treatment for LGBT service members and immigrants, and has pushed for the federal government to provide benefits to legally married same-sex couples. He’s worked to address wildfires and bark beetle infestation. On the mixed-reviewed health care reforms, he continues to say that increasing the number of Coloradans with health insurance has been a positive step, and efforts should continue to keep insurances costs down while maintaining consumer choice and reasonable changes for businesses. He’s served on a presidential commission to help reduce the national debt. He’s pushed back against the National Security Association’s monitoring programs of U.S. citizens, and introduced bills to reduce the collection of phone records, lay out safeguards for warrantless wiretapping and create an advocate for privacy rights in cases that come before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Though we consider his policies on promoting renewable energy disappointing at best and his pressure to increase the speed at which natural gas reserves are accessed and exported alarming, in the interest of keeping that progressive voice in our nation’s capital, Boulder Weekly endorses a vote for Mark Udall for Senate.

Representative to the 114th United States Congress – District 2

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* Jared Polis George Leing

We’ve repeatedly reported the disappointment with which many Front Range residents responded to the move to drop the anti-fracking ballot initiatives from the ballot this November, but the fact remains that Rep. Jared Polis has made an effort to support communities that have an interest in protecting themselves from oil and gas development and has been in the past, whatever his investments and however the compromises may have moved him Boulder Weekly

since, a proponent for some forms of local control of fracking. At the very least he has argued for increased setbacks from homes. Because he still supports oil and gas extraction, and we would prefer to endorse candidates who demonstrated a record for voting and acting on behalf of a planet that has few short years left to wait before we have reached a point from which there will be no return, we’ve added an asterisk to our endorsement.

We’ll note here that Polis has been an advocate for small businesses, equal rights for LGBT community members and immigration reform, funding for education and protecting wild lands.

Polis’s opponent, George Leing, argues for healthcare reforms that could undermine the advances made by the Affordable Care Act. He opposes a national gun registry and other laws that would translate to increased gun control. Though he wants to see renewable energy incorporated in the energy portfolio in a way in which it will stand on its own, he also promotes the development of natural resources, including natural gas, and signed on to support the defeat of the fracking ban in Loveland.

Representative to the 114th United States Congress – District 4

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Vic Meyers Ken Buck Jess Loban Grant Doherty

Though registered as the Democratic candidate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of the Democratic Party of the U.S. House, hasn’t returned Vic Meyers’ phone calls, Meyers says. So he argues that a vote for him is a vote against the established system.

“It won’t just be Vic Meyers coming to Washington, it’s the hundreds of thousands of people in the 4th Congressional District saying they’re not putting up with this anymore,” he says.

Meyers, a military veteran, is campaigning on a platform that prioritizes economic recovery, particularly for Colorado’s Main Streets and investment in infrastructure. On social issues, he’s solidly progressive — supporting equal rights for all citizens, including LGBT community members and their

right to marry; saying passing the DREAM Act is the least we can do in terms of immigration reform; and calling the president’s proposed $10.10 an hour for a living wagedisappointingly low.

Coming from the district that will represent Weld County, where oil and gas development is widespread and visible, he’s campaigning on an approach to energy that supports the utilization of oil and gas resources, but he says Coloradans deserve the right to decide how much of that development they want in their communities. He supports local control movements such as Longmont’s ban on fracking within city limits.

He says that campaigning on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as his opponent has, ignores the fact that health care reform has seen 32,000 previously uninsured people in District 4 get health insurance and saved them millions of dollars in health care costs.

Ken Buck, the Republican candidate, has been Weld County’s district attorney since 2004 and ran against Sen. Michael Bennett for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Buck has a reputation for being tough on immigration, arguing for strengthened borders and increased verification of legal residency to work. He supports giving more control to individuals and local communities in making decisions about health care and education. His policy on energy is to develop domestic resources including oil and natural gas, approve the Keystone XL Pipeline and eliminate the renewable energy standard.

Loban, the Libertarian candidate, says at the top of his list is eliminating excess federal spending and reducing the national debt. A veteran, he suggests freeing up veterans to take their benefits to doctors of their choice, reducing wait times and travel time.

BW is endorsing Meyers for the U.S. House seat representing District 4.

Governor/Lieutenant Governor Bob Beauprez/Jill Repella John Hickenlooper/Joe Garcia

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Harry Hempy/Scott Olson Matthew Hess/Brandon Young Mike Dunafon/Robin Roberts Paul Noel Fiorino/Charles George Whitley Few races illustrate so poignantly how the lines have blurred between our two major parties, leaving two candi-

dates whose differences, in terms of the actual policies they can pass, are negligible. Bob Beauprez, the staunch Republican, the small business and lifetime Boulder County resident, has made enough statements that simply can’t be reconciled with a progressive agenda — his comment equating IUDs to abortions is just the latest of these — as to make an endorsement for him impossible.

But likewise this paper cannot, in good conscience, not even faced with all the arguments of pragmatism and the multitude of benefits brought on by having a Democrat in the governor’s mansion, endorse John Hickenlooper.

Because what, really, has Hickenlooper accomplished in office?

He was against the legalization of marijuana and voters passed it anyway. He’s made no move on gay marriage and that issue has simply circumvented his desk. He attempted to gather support for Amendment 66 to increase funding for K-12 education and it was met with a dismal reception at last year’s ballot box. He managed to put his signature on a bill that allows undocumented students in-state tuition at public universities, many of which are still so expensive because higher education funding has been so deeply cut in recent years as to make that little more than a gesture.

His signature accomplishment is the creation of an oil and gas task force he says represents the people as well as oil and gas interests, but fails to bring the view hundreds of thousands of Colorado residents have expressed — an interest in local control over oil and gas development in their communities — to the table.

Many of the rest of the accomplishments his campaign touts, such as job creation and a pro-business environment, a trade agreement with Mexico and increased efficiency in government offices, could just as easily have come from a conservative in office. Even seemingly conservation-minded achievements, like protecting the sage grouse, are pro-oil and gas industry and ranching movements masquerading as support for the environment.

It’s a net-gain of zero.

Beauprez himself, in a meeting with Boulder Weekly earlier this summer, acknowledged that the governor’s position in Colorado is one that calls on leadership and vision more than policymaking. Hickenlooper’s executive actions since taking office have primarily been to declare disasters in response to wildfires and floods and establish taskforces or other advisory boards.

The hope is that Colorado’s House and Senate will see legislators who can See VOTE Page 16

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collaborate and enact real change — but given the hostile climate that saw state legislators recalled after efforts to increase gun control and have seen other bills gutted in the name of making them safe for all parties involved, even that’s unlikely.

It’s a time when real leadership is needed, and we are sorry to report we don’t see that in any of the candidates on the ballot for governor.

In this race in particular we looked for a realistic third option.

Unaffiliated candidate Mike Dunafon could be fun. Libertarian Matthew Hess, with his belief that the government should be extracted from everything — education, healthcare and, while you’re at it, get rid of federal income taxes, too — would likely find himself so entangled in red tape as to make for an amusing game of cat’s cradle.

Not one of them looks like the kind of leader who can incite the level of change this state, like this country, desperately needs.

We had hoped to see a more optimistic outlook for Hempy, and polls at one point showed drawing close to 5 percent of the vote. It now appears he’s only at 3 percent, less than a third of the 10 percent of the vote needed to secure major party status in the state for the Green Party.

It’s tough to get excited about a candidate who’s platform hinges on election reform, however dire the need for it may appear right now. Hempy argues that party platforms have been abandoned in the name of getting behind candidates who fundraise well.

He wants to make it easier to run for office, host public debates that include all candidates (despite inquiries, he’s been excluded from the BeauprezHickenlooper debates) and implement a multiple choice voting system. He does say basic human rights to clean air and water should supersede oil and gas development, and he’d work for regulations that require all oil and gas development to cease any harmful emissions.

Simply to cast a vote in favor of a candidate deeply invested in walking away from a two-party system, to put support behind the movement that says these nearly indistinguishable Democratic and Republican candidates are not enough options for Colorado, Boulder Weekly endorses a vote for Hempy for governor.

Secretary of State Joe Neguse Wayne Williams Amanda Campbell Dave Schambach

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Democrat Joe Neguse argues the Secretary of State’s office, which oversees elections and official filings for businesses, should do all it can to make elections as accessible and easy for as many voters as possible. Republican Wayne Williams favors careful exercise of electoral privilege.

Neguse supports the election reforms passed in 2013 that extend voter registration through Election Day and required mail-in ballots be sent to all voters as progress toward better, more accessible elections. Williams worries they’ve loosened the system’s requirements in ways that open it up to fraud and says voters should have a choice in whether their ballots reach them at home, where family members, unions or coworkers could pressure them in how to vote.

As El Paso’s clerk and recorder, Williams has increased the number of 24-hour drop-off locations and worked with Black and Latino coalitions to make sure minority groups had voting locations convenient for them. He touts overseeing the complex recall election of Colorado State Senator John Morse among his accomplishments. His work to run an election amid the Waldo Canyon Fire has also been commended.

For his interest in increased accessibility, transparency and streamlining the system by which small businesses are created, Boulder Weekly endorses Joe Neguse for Secretary of State.

State Treasurer Elizabeth “Betsy” Markey Walker Stapleton David Jurist

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The duties of the Colorado State Treasurer’s office include investing Colorado’s tax dollars, overseeing the unclaimed property division and serving on the board of the Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA).

The incumbent, Walker Stapleton (R), has a fairly reasonable and forward-looking approach to reforming PERA, which is going to be an enormous issue for Colorado in the future.

The program is already $26 billion in debt. He won a half-percent reduction in the projected return (from 8 to 7.5 percent) and even sued the PERA board in 2011 to get the information he said he needed to make good decisions.

His opponent Elizabeth Helen “Betsy” Markey (D) worked in the U.S. Treasury office, and has the endorsement of two former Colorado Treasurers. She is the former U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Stapleton supports the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) and Markey is in favor of continuing to reform it.

Markey’s platform seems dependent on reasons why Stapleton isn’t good for the job and offers few solutions to the problems Stapleton has been actively dealing with. We’ll stick with Stapleton.

State Attorney General Cynthia Coffman Don Quick David Williams

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While an attorney general’s primary function is to uphold the law of the state, we believe there is room for activism in the position, so we asked the candidates how they would handle a number of issues that are important to Boulder County constituents.

Each candidate stated that regulations on fracking is an issue best dictated at the state level. Both Democratic candidate Don Quick and Republican candidate Cynthia Coffman (who is currently the deputy attorney general under John Suthers) said they were glad that four fracking-related measures were dropped from this November’s ballot, and both are interested in seeing what Governor John Hickenlooper’s newly created 21-member oil and gas task force come up with.

The candidates separate themselves more on social issues like same-sex marriage. The current AG’s office sued Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall in July for issuing samesex marriage licenses. Coffman says that her office had to take action against Hall because of the stay put in place by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

While Williams says he doesn’t believe it’s the government’s job to sanction consensual relationships between adults, he too would have defended Colorado’s definition of marriage and ordered Hall to stop issuing licenses.

Quick, however, says he wouldn’t have sued Boulder’s clerk over the issue.

“In the last six months alone we’ve seen the attorney general of Colorado continue to defend the same-sex marriage ban after there were 27 decisions in a row that said it was unconstitutional, including two decisions out of a state and federal court here in Colorado,” Quick says. “The reason we have a constitution is that the majority doesn’t get to repeatedly vote on the rights of the minorities. That’s the whole reason we have equal protection under the law.”

Quick continues to draw our support with his attention to environmental crime, something he’s well versed in since establishing Colorado’s Environmental Crimes Prosecution Unit while working under former state

attorney general Ken Salazar.

While we disagree that stepping back from the anti-fracking ballot initiatives was the best move, we feel that Quick stands out against Coffman and Williams on some issues we feel strongly about. Quick gets our nod.

Regent of the University of Colorado – Congressional District 2 Kim McGahey Linda Shoemaker Daniel Ong

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This seat is one of three that could turn to Democrats this year, which would put a Democratic majority on the long Republican-dominated university board just as the president and several of the chancellors approach the possibility of retirement.

Democrat Linda Shoemaker says she would like to see the University of Colorado campuses, particularly Boulder’s, become more welcoming to a diverse student body, a college education for an in-state student become more affordable and Board of Regents meetings accomplish more in public than they do in private. She’d like to bring her background in fundraising to draw increased scholarship and research funds to the university. Measures that could reduce expenses for students, like competency exams, should also be considered.

“It’s cheaper for Colorado parents to send their students to Wyoming or New Mexico, and that’s a travesty,” she told Boulder Weekly.

Kim McGahey, the Republican candidate, says he’s interested in shifting the focus for the university.

“The pervasive ideology in most colleges these days is a liberal mentality that shows students that they don’t need to think ... and I think that’s short-sighted because I don’t think that prepares them to be successful in the world,” McGahey says.

He says the university should be more focused on cutting its budget, and weaning students off loans subsidized by taxpayers.

On the topic of Title IX complaints (CU is one of 55 universities under investigation for mishandling Title IX requirements), Shoemaker says there’s a need to set a higher standard for preventing and handling cases of sexual assault, as well as addressing the broader issues of harassment and discrimination faced by students as well as staff and faculty. McGahey says laws offer sufficient protection and the university and its staff should not get involved.

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During her time at the statehouse, Jeanne Nicholson (D-Black Hawk) sponsored and passed 68 pieces of legislation, nearly all of which gained bipartisan support. Nicholson says she is a champion of the environment, particularly water rights. Nicholson supports natural gas as a bridge fuel, but says that renewable energy needs to play a much larger role in the state’s energy, and soon.

“We still need to rely on fossil fuels but we need to phase out of fossil fuel use and into more renewable energy,” says Nicholson. She adds that it is the state’s decision, not local communities, if fracking should be allowed, but the health and safety of citizens should be assured.

Tim Neville (R) is a former smallbusiness owner who served one year in the state Senate in 2012 after narrowly winning a run-off election for a vacated seat. Neville is a pro-gun rights advocate, calling the Second Amendment, a “bulwark against tyranny.” During his brief Senate stint, Neville introduced a bill to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit.

Neville is also strongly pro-life and opposed to gay marriage, going so far as to send out an automated phone message to a neighboring district’s constituents, warning that their representative was the deciding vote on “bringing homosexual marriage to Colorado,” according to The Denver Post.

Concerning the economy, Neville favors low regulation and low taxes and believes that unions are detrimental to worker’s rights.

Our endorsement goes to Nicholson.

State Rep District 10 Dickey Lee Hullinghorst

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Dickey Lee Hullinghorst is the majority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives. She has a proven track record, and we have endorsed her before. She has shown dedication to issues like public education, closing corporate loopholes, protecting women’s rights to choose, civil unions and passing a DREAM-like act for undocumented immigrants who were brought here as youngsters and graduated from high school. She is pro-business and has been on many boards.

It’s also worth noting that Hullinghorst worked very hard to reach a legislative compromise that would have pulled the anti-fracking measures from the ballot this year. She’s running unopposed.

State Representative — District 11 Charlie Plagainos Jonathan Singer Bill Gibson

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We endorsed Jonathan Singer in 2012 and will do so again this year.

We asked the candidates about their thoughts on fracking, given Longmont’s clear-anti fracking position, and thoughts on the dropped anti-fracking ballot measures.

“I think honestly, those measures were a small drop in the bucket compared to what my constituents really want,” Singer says. “At the same time, I also understood the political reality of a resounding loss on those issues without taking the time to educate the entire Front Range, the entire state of Colorado, about the issue. It would have potentially set us back even further.”

Republican candidate Charlie Plagainos says no one in academia or government can come up with an argument against fracking.

“There’s no mass groups of people coming down with strange diseases,” Plagainos says.

Libertarian candidate Bill Gibson says he is concerned most with property rights, both for mineral owners and those who are affected by fracking, and says that local bans do nothing to compensate mineral owners when they are denied access to what is rightfully theirs.

For efforts to listen to his constituences, our endorsement goes to Singer.

State Rep District 12 Mike Foote

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When he ran in 2012, Mike Foote said he wanted to be elected to the state Legislature to help improve the economy, education, health care and the environment. He said he was “willing to work with everyone to solve our problems.” Boulder Weekly endorsed him then and we will endorse him again.

Colorado House of Representatives – District 13 Michael James Hocevar KC Becker

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Democrat KC Becker was elected to the state House of Representatives in Boulder Weekly

only eco-friendly products used 2013 by a special committee tasked with filling a vacated seat. Becker served previously as a Boulder City Councilwoman from 2009-13.

Michael James Hocevar (R) has not served public office but has worked as a campaign volunteer for Republicans Paul Cornelison and Adam Ochs.

Becker says she’s most proud of legislation she’s worked on to support Colorado’s waterways, which called for conserving water.

“We are going to be facing a water shortage in this state accounting for population growth and we have got to figure out what the plan, as a state, is,” says Becker.

Becker acknowledges that environmental issues are important to everyone in District 13, which encompasses a large geographical area. She supports natural gas extraction and supported legislative reform to regulate fracking instead of the ballot initiatives that were ultimately pulled.

Hocevar, on the other side, is focused on securing individual liberties.

Some of those issues include pro-gun laws, which Hocevar says are important to upholding the Colorado statute that defines all males between 18 and 45 as members of the state militia. Hocevar also says it is not the role of the government to determine personal decisions like reproductive rights and abortion.

“No society can survive without moral governance, however, it is not the government’s job, necessarily, to supply the moral leadership,” says Hocevar.

Becker says she has the experience and skills necessary to operate effectively at the statehouse.

“I think it’s really important for any legislator to think about what it does take to get something done and how to work with your colleagues both in your own caucus and across the aisle,” says Becker.

Our endorsement goes to Becker.

State Representative – District 33 Marijo Tinlin Dianne Primavera Carter Reid

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Incumbent Dianne Primavera (D-Broomfield) has been an advocate for small businesses, education, health care and transportation, and has been honored by several prominent women’s organizations, especially for her sponsorship of a bill that anonomized addresses to protect victims of domestic violence from stalkers.

Her main opponent, Republican Marijo Tinlin, has focused more on the sort of divisive social issues that have mired government in dysfunction.

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that Dianne Primavera will better serve the residents of District 33 and the state of Colorado.

District O Regional Transportation District Director Elizabeth Adams Chuck Sisk

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Former Louisville mayor Chuck Sisk was appointed in 2013 to fill the District O slot for RTD vacated by John Tayer. He made it clear from the outset that he planned to run again because the problems that he wanted to solve would take more time.

“I’m looking to RTD to fulfill our role as stewards and deliver the promise made in 2004 to deliver the system,” Sisk told Boulder Weekly.

Sisk has also built a reputation for himself as someone who helps bridge divides and build the sorts of coalitions that will be required for RTD to fulfill its promises.

It is the opinion of Boulder Weekly that Chusk Sisk is the stronger candidate in this race.

County Commissioner – District 3 Cindy Domenico Randy Luallin Kai Abelkis

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Randy Luallin, the Libertarian candidate for the seat, and Kai Abelkis, who is running as an unaffiliated candidate, have some good ideas for the county and would bring sensibilities that could benefit any county office.

The argument both of them have made about how county commissioners are elected — that because of the county’s strong Democratic leanings, the caucus of 300 that meets to determine the Democratic candidates early in the year essentially makes the choice for the county’s 300,000 residents — has merit to it. But making a valid point about the political process isn’t the determining factor in a campaign. So while Luallin is clearly dedicated to finding a position of leadership in Boulder County — this is his sixth run for county commissioner — and Abelkis has a great investment in the human interest aspects of the position, those don’t outshine a candidate with a demonstrated ability to work among the many organizations that the county organizes and strive to get things done efficiently and in a cost-effective manner.

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county built back after the 2013 flood, and her stance on oil and gas development in Boulder County — which is to extend the moratorium while research continues — make her what BW believes to be the right person to continue to hold this seat on the board of county commissioners.

Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall Ralph Shnelvar

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Hillary Hall, Ralph Shnelvar and Boulder Weekly have some history. In September 2012, BW began to investigate the possibility that Boulder County ballots could be traced back to the voter via a system of unique serial numbers.

In October 2012, Hall refused to grant election integrity activists, including BW staff and Ralph Shnelvar, access to the ballot-printing facility to observe the handling of ballots.

When asked recently about the incident, Hall told BW she felt she’d already addressed this issue.

“When people wanted these changes implemented, we were already full into the printing process, and in 2013 we set it up ahead of time with our vendor, if we had watchers that wanted to come, they were more than welcome to do so, and they were more than welcome to do so this election,” Hall says. “We have not received any requests since we opened that process up.”

Hall maintains that it was very unlikely that Boulder County ballots could have been traced back to the voter, but activists were able to show that Boulder County ballots could be traced back to voters (BW editor Joel Dyer was able to do so).

Shnelvar admits beyond this issue (albeit a rather large issue), he and Hall aren’t very different, though he says he wouldn’t have stopped issuing same-sex marriage licenses even after the state attorney general sued the county clerk.

Shnelvar gets our endorsement.

County Treasurer Paul Weissmann

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Democrat Paul Weissmann is running for County Treasurer unopposed to replace incumbent Bob Hullinghorst, who is being term-limited out of office.

Weissmann, who had a reputation as something of a fixer in the state legislature, wants to use the opportunity of being treasurer to find ways that different boards and agencies within the county can better cooperate and be more effective. We endorse his effort.

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Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall

In more than 30 years of experience in the Boulder County Assessor’s Office, Jerry Roberts has held nearly every position in the department.

The assessor’s office primarily determines property values and factors into disputes regarding such. It also helps determine zoning areas (residential, industrial, etc.) Roberts also oversees the valuation of damages to property caused by natural disasters, such as the 2013 flood or previous wildfires.

Roberts’ work in the department has earned him and the office numerous state, national and industry awards.

Roberts has our endorsement for county assessor.

Incumbent County Coroner Emma Hall has taken some heat (mostly from her opponent in the Democratic primary, Deron Dempsey) for several issues, including delayed autopsy results, creating a poor work environment and a decline in organ donations (per the Mountain Lions Eye Bank). Hall says she didn’t become a coroner for the politics of it and says that when she got into office, it was in such disarray that it took time to organize it. Delayed autopsy results are only delayed relative to past results, which were incomplete and hastily done, Hall says, and that doing them the right way takes time.

In May, Boulder Weekly looked into the coroner’s office after hearing comments from employees within the department that Hall was difficult to work with, as was the medical examiner in charge of autopsies. Several people in the room during one examination with the examiner, Michael Arnall, said the careless way he treated a deceased infant made them sick.

Arnall was put on leave from Boulder County and continued work in Adams County. Hall says he has not returned.

Though she is unopposed, Hall says she knows Boulder is a participatory community and that her job performance won’t be judged in an unopposed election, but by her work in the coroner’s office.

Hall, who says she wanted to be a coroner ever since she witnessed a death investigation near her family’s ranch at four years old, is suitable to handle the roughly 200 cases the coroner’s office receives each year.

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County Sheriff Joseph K. Pelle

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Joseph Pelle has always been about common sense. He was one of only 10 sheriffs (out of 64) in Colorado who did not join the lawsuit over gun restrictions following mass shootings in 2013. After the 2009 ban on texting while driving, Pelle said deputies would concentrate on the “culture of bad driving” rather than texting. Pelle called the watered-down law a “feel-good” law.

His ban on fires and fireworks during the 2012 season was smart, though not particularly popular. He and his office also did commendable work following the floods in 2013 and have been invited to speak with other emergency management offices around the country about Boulder’s model.

He’s running unopposed, but he’s a strong candidate and worth the vote.

County Surveyor

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Lee Stadele has more than 31 years of uninterrupted experience surveying Boulder County, owning and operating his own company, Flagstaff Surveying, since 1992. His firm has more than 450 survey plats filed with Boulder County.

Stadele also has the endorsements of the previous two county surveyors, Jason Emery (who will be leaving the office due to term limitations) and William Stengel.

The County Surveyor reviews all the subdivision plat maps, attends meetings with other elected officials to create land policy, works to get historic maps filed with the Land Use Department and seeks to improve survey monuments. Stadele’s wealth of experience and easygoing demeanor make him a good fit for the position.

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City of Louisville City Council Person Ward I

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Chris Leh Cory Nickerson Susan Honstein While Susan Honstein demonstrates a great interest in communicating and collaborating to keep people connected with Louisville while the city continues to grow, and Cory Nickerson brings a deep investment in Louisville’s youngest residents and innovative ideas for development, Louisville City Council candidate Chris Leh demonstrates the clearest objectives for the council and a list of tasks to achieve those ends.

His priorities include acquiring and protecting open space around Louisville, adding stoplights at intersections that have demonstrated a need for them for safety and to Highway 42 to

slow traffic through town, and balancing the vision of development with maintaining the small-town character.

“I love Louisville, I love the town and want to keep the wonderful parts there and want to make sure it can be sustained economically in the future,” Leh says.

For his concrete ideas for Louisville’s future and deep knowledge of its past, Boulder Weekly endorses Chris Leh for Louisville City Council.

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Clint Folsom Gladys Forshee

The town of Superior is at a turning point, with Town Center, an in-progress major development project with major implications on Superior’s tax base and its general character.

“We have very little left to develop.

So we have to be careful in how we do that, in order to sustain our tax base to maintain the parks and amenities,” says Clint Folsom.

Folsom’s opponent, Gladys Forshee, says she is only running to call attention to a bureaucratic misstep: that when Superior moved its elections to November from April, it skipped over the extra seven months for those currently in office. It is her opinion that the election she is a candidate for should not even be happening and needs to go back to court.

It is the opinion of Boulder Weekly that the town of Superior would be better served by a candidate that actually wants to be mayor, not just call attention to a cause. That candidate is Clint Folsom.

Town of Superior – Trustee Sandy Pennington Rita Dozal

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The candidates running for Trustee share similar values and competency for navigating the challenges Superior faces, but the challenges are compounded by so many seats opening up at once, which runs the risk of the election purging institutional knowledge.

That’s why Boulder Weekly believes that incumbents Sandy Pennington and Chris Hanson should be retained in their positions, and why longtime community activist Rita Dozal should be added to the board as well.

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Judge retention Boulder County ballots will include four statewide and nine local judge retention questions. If a judge is removed by a majority “No” vote, a bipartisan commission submits candidates to the governor and his staff, and someone new is appointed.

For our endorsements, we used the Blue Book text, authored by the Colorado Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation (COJPE). We also researched the judges’ written opinions and sought input from Stan Garnett, district attorney for the 20th Judicial District.

On the ballot, the questions read: Shall Judge [name] of the Court [name] be retained in office?

Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court — Brian D. Boatright RETAIN Only 66 percent of the attorneys surveyed recommended Justice Boatright for retention, citing concerns about his ability to write opinions “that adequately explain the basis of the Court’s decision,” as well as his ability to make “reasoned decisions based upon the law and facts.”

However, the justice acknowledges his shortcomings and vows to continue to improve the clarity of his writing.

Attorneys also said that Boatright was courteous and allowed them the opportunity to present arguments. Add to this that 97 percent of surveyed judges recommended his retention.

We recommend Boatright for retention.

Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court — Monica M. Márquez RETAIN The COJPE’s evaluation of Monica M. Márquez shows that attorneys find her “courteous,” and feel they are treated equally “regardless of race, sex, or economic status,” and thus, 87 percent of attorneys recommend Márquez for retention. Similarly, surveyed judges find Márquez “intelligent,” “well prepared” and “hard working,” with 93 percent recommending her for retention.

We recommend Márquez for retention.

Court of Appeals — Terry Fox RETAIN While attorneys’ survey responses indicate that Judge Terry Fox treats parties equally and she extends courtesy and respect toward attorneys, their responses also indicate that she is weak in writing reasoned decisions that are clear and adequately explain the legal basis of the decision.

Upon reviewing Fox’s opinions, the commission found some of her opinions

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did lack “in-depth analysis,” but others were “thoughtful and well-reasoned.”

Still, 89 percent of trial and appellate judges recommend Fox for retention.

Fox was sworn in as a judge on the Court of Appeals in January 2011. As a relatively new judge on the court, Fox will likely grow with more experience.

We recommend retention for Judge Fox. Court of Appeals — Alan M. Loeb RETAIN Judge Alan Loeb has been on the Colorado Court of Appeals since 2003 and was appointed Chief Judge in October 2013.

Attorneys’ and judges’ responses to surveys about Loeb all indicate that he is fair, courteous and impartial. His writing is clear and attorneys find it easy to see the legal basis for his opinions.

We recommend Loeb for retention.

District Judge, 20th Judicial District — Ingrid S. Bakke RETAIN In evaluating Ingrid Bakke, survey participants “consistently” referenced her professionalism and even temperament, according to the COJPE. She was overwhelmingly recommended for retention by both attorneys (89 percent of those surveyed) and non-attorneys (93 percent).

We recommend Bakke for retention.

District Judge, 20th Judicial District — Maria E. Berkenkotter RETAIN Maria Berkenkotter has been a district court judge in Boulder County since 2006, and was appointed chief judge of the 20th Judicial District in 2013.

Berkenkotter’s workload is arduous, yet when surveyed about her performance, attorneys and non-attorneys alike characterized her as fair, hardworking, organized and consistently respectful to everyone in the courtroom.

In summing up their evaluation of Berkenkotter, the COJPE writes that it feels “fortunate to have such a skilled, hard-working, and compassionate Chief Judge in the 20th Judicial District.”

We recommend Berkenkotter for retention.

District Judge, 20th Judicial District — Patrick Butler RETAIN Patrick Butler is a relatively new judge on the 20th Judicial District’s bench — he was appointed in 2011 by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Attorneys surveyed about Butler expressed some concern that Boulder Weekly

Butler lacks knowledge in certain areas of domestic relations law and that at times he favors the “speedy resolution of matters over reaching a correct result.”

Despite this, the COJPE notes that both attorneys and non-attorneys “praised Judge Butler for his calm, respectful, and accessible demeanor.”

The commission feels Butler will continue to address his shortcomings and further his development as a jurist.

We recommend Butler for retention.

District Judge, 20th Judicial District — Judith L. LaBuda RETAIN While the COJPE admits Judith LaBuda’s survey results were “mixed,” with some participants describing LaBuda as “smart, hard-working and knowledgeable,” other responses indicate “she can be disrespectful, imperious and inflexible.”

The COJPE writes LaBuda’s knowledge of the law and willingness to grow in her position encourages them to recommend her for retention.

LaBuda “voluntarily agreed to enter into an improvement plan to address her demeanor and flexibility.”

She has only been on the 20th Judicial District Court since 2012. We give LaBuda the benefit of the doubt as a new judge who deserves appropriate feedback to grow in her position.

We recommend LaBuda for retention.

District Judge, 20th Judicial District — Andrew Ross Macdonald RETAIN Appointed in May 2011, Andrew Ross Macdonald is still relatively new to the bench. As such, some attorney respondents said Macdonald is still learning many aspects of criminal law, but overall the comments were positive, calling Macdonald’s demeanor “pleasant.”

Attorneys did say Macdonald tends to favor the prosecution. However, the commission notes “attorney respondents tend to report, on average, a slight bias in favor of the prosecution among all judges standing for retention all across the state.”

“Overall,” writes the COJPE, “Judge Macdonald appears to be successfully growing into his role as a district court judge, aided in large part by his engaging judicial demeanor and enthusiasm for the job.”

We recommend Macdonald for retention.

County Judge — David Archuleta RETAIN David Archuleta has a long history of judicial service in Boulder County, Boulder Weekly

serving first as a deputy district attorney for the 20th Judicial District from 1990 to 1999. He has been with the Boulder County Court since 1999.

During this evaluation he was rated above average by attorneys in each of the 17 categories provided, and 89 percent recommended him for retention.

Non-attorneys similarly recommended retention in high numbers (87 percent), and rated Archuleta above average in 15 of the 17 possible categories.

We recommend Archuleta for retention.

County Judge — Noel E. Blum DO NOT RETAIN “Consistent with Judicial Performance Commission review results in 2010 and 2006, Judge Blum continues to receive criticism for his judicial demeanor,” the COJPE writes in Blum’s most recent evaluation. “He has been described by survey participants and observed by some Commission members as being moody or impatient.”

Blum’s current evaluation reads much like his last two: “Some participants described him as courteous and hardworking, with a pleasant and friendly demeanor,” writes the COJPE. “Other participants indicated that Judge Blum can be abrupt, rude, and lacking neutrality.” Of the nine members of the commission who voted on whether to recommend Blum for retention, six voted yes while three voted no.

After a decade on the County Court bench and three questionable performance evaluations, we believe Blum’s supposed commitment to improving his demeanor is less than sincere.

We do not recommend Blum for retention.

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County Judge — Karolyn Moore RETAIN Karolyn Moore garnered a “do not retain” recommendation from the COJPE. Survey results show only 40 percent of responding attorneys recommended Moore be retained. Their concerns seem to center on Moore’s perceived bias toward prosecution.

However, the COJPE notes in the Blue Book that “attorney respondents tend to report, on average, a slight bias in favor of the prosecution among all judges standing for retention all across the state.”

“I thought it was remarkable that [Boulder County District Court] Judge [Noel] Blum, who’s been criticized over the years for the same issues, is recommended for retention, and yet Judge Moore, whose criticism is really in one area ... not be retained,” says Boulder see VOTE Page 24

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County District Attorney Stan Garnett.

Garnett adds that Moore was not offered an improvement plan, unlike other judges. He also notes that Moore had the highest approval rate of any Boulder County judge among non-lawyers. None of the attorneys surveyed about her performance were prosecutors.

As this is her first evaluation, we believe Moore deserves the same feedback and chance to improve that her peers receive.

We recommend Moore for retention.

County Judge — Norma A. Sierra RETAIN Norma Sierra, according to the COJPE’s evaluation, “is seen as a judge who keeps appropriate control of her courtroom, communicates well, and is diligent.” The main complaint from attorneys was a bias toward prosecution, and a lack of knowledge of criminal law.

Sierra acknowledged her deficiency in criminal law, and the COJPE says she is taking steps to close the gap in her knowledge.

We recommend Sierra for retention.

Ballot questions Amendment 67 Yes

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Amendment 67, which proposes to apply definitions of “person” and “child” in Colorado’s criminal code and wrongful death act to include unborn humans, is a solution in search of a problem.

For one, the legislature already responded to the issue it claims to address (the loss of a child by an eightmonths-pregnant woman after she was hit by a drunk driver) by passing laws that apply penalties to the unlawful termination of a pregnancy through criminal or negligent acts.

Second, the language in the law is overly broad, written in such a manner that it would criminalize not just incidents like the accident and all abortions, but any circumstances that do not result in a live birth, including miscarriages and birth control.

Third, Coloradans have voted on this type of “personhood” amendment twice before, in 2008 and 2010. Both times the result was definitive, with more than 70 percent voting “no.”

Boulder Weekly recommends a “no” vote on Amendment 67.

Colorado State Amendment 68 Yes

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Amendment 68 would permit one casino to be built at horse racetracks in 24 October 9, 2014

Arapahoe, Mesa and Pueblo counties.

The catch is that the casino could only be built at a horse track that is in operation for five years. Because Arapahoe Park is the only track that meets qualifications, it would be the only track ready for a casino. Unsurprisingly, the sponsors of the amendment own Arapahoe Park.

The amendment gives up to $114 million to K-12 education funding statewide, however, reductions in tax revenue from the mountain casinos (in Black Hawk, Cripple Creek and Central City) would offset the total amount given to K-12 education to about $67 million. Current revenue from the mountain casinos amounts to just under $100 million annually.

Colorado schools are budgeted $6 billion annually.

“It’s one of the more cynical things I’ve ever seen,” says Michele Ames, spokesperson for the No campaign.

“Not a single education group, not a single school district is supporting this.”

Amendment 68 would also amend the state constitution for one private company, says Ames.

Amendment 68 would strip local communities in Arapahoe, Mesa and Pueblo counties of their right to determine local gambling regulations. The mountain towns in which Colorado’s only casinos currently reside may suffer from what the state says will be a 30 percent immediate decline in visitors.

Therefore, because Amendment 68 essentially writes one casino into the state constitution, severely restricts the rights of local communities to determine rules about gambling in their counties, and because the impact of the funding for K-12 education is minimal, vote no.

Colorado Proposition 104 Yes

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Proposition 104 would amend Colorado statutes to require local school boards and their representatives to hold collective bargaining agreement negotiations in open meetings.

It is unclear, according to the state’s electoral Blue Book, if discussing negotiation strategies will have to be made public. The ballot question would make public “any meeting of a board of education, or any meeting between any representative of a school district and any representative of employees, at which a collective bargaining agreement is discussed.”

“The only groups that are really going to be against opening negotiations are the school districts and the unions, and they have a mighty big stick down at the legislature but I don’t

think that represents what Coloradans want,” says Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institue, which is sponsoring the propisiton.

The proposition would also free information during teacher strikes.

Eleven other states already have similar school board negotiation regulations and several school districts in Colorado already make their CBA negotiations public.

Those opposed to the proposition say voters elect school board members whom they trust to run these negotiations, and that labor negotiations are often difficult and complicated.

Although the wording in the proposition could be more definitive, Boulder Weekly ultimately agrees with Caldara, who says, “Sunshine is not a scary thing except for people who are acting in the dark.”

Proposition 105 Yes

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The meat and potatoes of this measure would require “any prepackaged, processed food or raw agricultural commodity that has been produced using genetic modification” to include the label “Produced With Genetic Engineering” by Jan. 1, 2016.

The biggest cry from critics is that labeling will drive up costs for consumers. A 2013 investigation by independent consultant Kai Robertson found “no evidence that changes to a food processor’s product labels affect the prices paid by shoppers.”

“We’re not asking to ban GMOs, we’re simply asking that people have a right to know what’s in their food by a simple label,” says Larry Cooper, cochair for Right To Know Colorado, the campaign that’s been working to get a GMO labeling measure on this November’s statewide ballot since 2012.

We endorse a “yes” vote on proposition 105.

Boulder County Ballot Issue 1A County-wide Flood Recovery Sales and Use Tax Yes

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Faced with an estimated cost of $217 million to recover the county’s infrastructure after the flood and an expected reimbursement from federal funds of $161 million, the Boulder County Commissioners have crafted a ballot initiative to close that gap — some $56 million. With an increase in sales and use tax of 0.185 percent, or less than $.02 for every $10 spent, they can come closer to covering the escalat-

ing costs of recovery from the 2013 flood, including repairs to county roads and bridges, redirecting rivers that changed course and assisting programs to rebuild residents’ homes and businesses. The increase is set to sunset in five years.

The hope, county commissioners say, is to rebuild better, stronger infrastructure ready to withstand the next natural disaster.

Public support has been widespread for the ballot issue. Boulder Weekly joins those endorsements in saying this is a necessary step to recovery.

Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B Human Services Safety Net Mill Levy Extension Yes

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Ballot Issue 1B proposes extending a mill levy that comes down to $7 per $100,000 value on a home and has been used to fund housing and human services programs within the county. A significant percentage of Boulder County residents have yet to fully recover from the recession and are still looking to the help that Boulder County’s Housing and Human Services program either provide or connect them with on a federal level. Between 2011 and 2014, Boulder County’s Housing and Human Services-funded community partner programs have served an estimated 6,905 Boulder residents in need of housing assistance, 6,108 residents with basic needs for families, 2,432 people for mental health services, 1,514 for domestic violence services and 202 for parent education programming.

The county commissioners describe the programs as having been wildly successful in helping families.

The measure was initially proposed to help fill a gap left as state and federal funding was reduced to these kinds of programs, but signs point toward that funding not being backfilled and demand has continued. This ballot issue proposes to extend the Safety Net Tax by 15 years.

City of Boulder Ballot Issue No. 2A – Temporary Tax Increase for Community, Culture, and Safety Yes

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for cultural and safety improvements to the downtown civic area, Museum of Boulder, Chautauqua Park, University Hill and more.

If passed, 2A will raise $8.7 million for capital improvements to the downtown civic area (Canyon Boulevard to Arapahoe Avenue; Ninth Street to 13th Street), including increased lighting, refurbishment of Eben G. Fine Park, better paths and more.

2A would raise $3.2 million for improved lighting on the Hill, and $5.2 million to light Boulder Creek Path from 3rd to 17th streets and improve paving along the path.

2A would allot $3.8 million to the Dairy Center for the Arts so they can soundproof theaters and increase the size of dressing rooms to meet stage actor union standards, allowing more acts to come into Boulder, says Yes on 2A volunteer, Bob Yates.

The Museum of Boulder would receive $4 million in matching funds to move into the Masonic Lodge downtown and set up shop in the 16,000-square-foot building.

The new museum will include a “Children’s Discovery Zone,” science exhibitions, art exhibitions and local history displays.

Lastly, 2A would also provide $1.5 million for improved lighting in Chautauqua Park, and the construction of a wider, safer path along 9th Street. Issue 2A would also allot $600,000 for public art. “[2a] really kind of coalesced around culture and safety,” Yates says.

“There’s a lot of needs but I think the idea was ‘Lets make it something the voters can really get their arms around.’”

Ultimately, the sales tax was the best way to raise funds, Yates says, because it asks not only residents, but visitors to help pay for the improvements. The downtown improvements will provide millions in new revenue, according to independent research.

Vote yes.

City of Boulder Ballot Question 2B (on executive session) Yes

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Ballot Question 2B asks the voters to give permission to the Boulder City Council to meet in executive session to discuss legal issues related to advancing the city’s municipal electric utility.

As a newspaper, we believe the public should have access to these meetings and be engaged in the conversation, and that transparency in city government should be prioritized over the supposition that 26 October 9, 2014

there is any move the city could negotiate in secrecy that would catch Xcel by surprise. Xcel Energy has demonstrated an ability to anticipate and plan for each maneuver the city has proposed, with or without an element of surprise.

The city can also continue employing some of the workarounds currently used, such as city council members meeting in pairs. It doesn’t appear everyone on the city council thinks this measure is entirely necessary or that voters will go for it anyway. So while municipalization is an important issue, it is not the most important thing the council has ever dealt with, and opening this door could set a bad precedent.

Boulder Weekly recommends a no vote on this one.

City of Boulder Ballot Question No. 2C Yes

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Boulder has a high focus on the tech sector, the ideal sort of environment that Google was searching for with its Google Fiber Initiative, which sought to supercharge internet speeds for one lucky community.

But we were passed over for the project in large part because of state laws restricting the ability to create municipal internet.

But it is one that can be corrected thanks to home rule. The question asked by this ballot is not “should Boulder create municipal internet,” but “should it have the authority to do so.”

And if one believes in local control, it’s hard to oppose having the authority.

The principal argument against municipal internet is that it is, without a doubt government taking over something that was traditionally done by the private sector. There are many who oppose that on principle, and in many cases they are correct to do so.

But our economy and society has reached the point in which internet is becoming a utility, much like electricity or water, and continuing to let it operate as a natural monopoly in the private sector risks communities falling behind.

According to internet speed measurement service InternetAccessLocal. com, Boulder’s internet speeds are around 30 percent faster than the national average. But our 27 Mb/s download speed pales to Chattanooga’s publically-owned network which reaches speeds of 1,000 Mb/s.

For the good of our community, Boulder Weekly recommends a vote in favor of Ballot Question No. 2c.

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No. 2A – Public Safety Mill Levy Yes

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Ballot Issue 2A calls for the raising of property taxes in Lafayette to pay for upgrades to the police department and ambulance services.

The city says it needs to “ease the financial impact” of operating its ambulance service, which it figures will only increase in coming years. City council passed a resolution in favor of 2A, in which it said that in order to keep ambulance services in town, extra funds need to be raised.

“We used to have a regional service that we used and response times were really high and that was the impetus for going to more localized service,” says Debbie Wilmot, Lafayette public information officer.

The tax will also help fund upgrades for police technology, including “software and hardware investment.” And, funding will be given to youth and crime prevention programs.

“Some of [the upgrades] are communication upgrades so that we can be on the same radio frequencies with the other emergency responders in the county,” says Wilmot.

If 2A passes, Lafayette residents can expect a moderate increase in their property taxes — a $200,000 house, would mean $32 per year. This tax is ongoing.

The additional fact the funding will likely be taken out of the general fund if 2A fails, and the lack of a safe, immediate option for a regional ambulance system is enough for a yes vote.

City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2B – Recreation Bond and Mill Levy Yes

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Lafayette’s ballot issue No. 2B asks voters to approve a $5.5 million bond

to upgrade and renovate the Lamont Does pool and park complex.

Owned by the city, the Lamont Does complex is 43 years old and several upgrades would be applied to the facility if 2A passes, including the construction of a water park, which will include two flume towers, a renovated lap pool, a new bath house and more.

“Different mechanics are failing and its very costly to upkeep replacements of all those,” says Debbie Wilmot, city of Lafayette public information officer.

“It’s just not justifiable to continue to put band-aids on the pool.”

The pool had 9,500 admissions this year (and 74 dogs), with 407 participants in swim lessons and clinics.

The ballot issue also includes the construction of a new synthetic turf athletic field and handball courts.

The property tax will last 10 years and residents in a $200,000 home can expect to pay $31 annually, while those in $350,000 homes can expect to pay $53 annually.

The tax is moderate, and if you’re a Lafayette resident and want a new pool facility and turf field, by all means vote yes. Because there are other avenues for the funding of this renovation, because the total funding amount is sizeable, and because it is not a necessity to the town, vote no.

City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2C – Retail Marijuana and Retail Marijuana Products Excise Tax Yes

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This ballot measure will add a 10 percent tax on all marijuana and marijuana products bought in the city of Lafayette. This tax is in addition to state taxes already levied on the sale of marijuana.

According to the city, funds raised by the tax will be used to offset any costs that Lafayette incurs from the

licensing and regulation of marijuana.

The city also says it will use funds to support local drug education programs to prevent underage consumption of marijuana.

As a rule, Boulder Weekly supports reasonable taxation by local communities on the sale of marijuana.

City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2D – Excise Tax to Fund Clean Energy Initiative Yes

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If passed, Ballot Issue 2D will require Lafayette residents to pay a small tax based on their utility bill to fund a local clean energy program and initiative.

The tax would be 1 percent of a resident’s monthly electricity and natural gas bill in 2015, and 2 percent in 2016.

That amounts to about $1 to $2 per taxpayer per month. The total collected figures to be around $240,000 in 2015 and $480,000 in 2016.

According to the issue’s backers, Lafayette Clean Energy Campaign, those funds will be used for “offering rebates for energy efficiency projects; free expert energy advising; establishing on-water-bill repayment of certain energy upgrades; and employing an energy professional to implement programs and coordinate with an oversight Commission.”

Lafayette citizens voted in 2013 to collect a 3 percent “Utility Occupation Tax” that would offset the costs of leaving a contract with Xcel, in order to independently pursue a clean energy future. Although the measure passed, the city elected to resign with Xcel and so no tax was collected.

Boulder Weekly endorses a vote for this issue.

City of Longmont Ballot Issue 2A (street system maintenance)

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The City of Longmont’s Ballot Initiative 2A asks to extend street system maintenance and improvement by extending an existing sales and use tax of three-quarters of a cent from its enddate in 2016 to 2026.

The only real advantage to not passing this ballot issue is to eventually see a slightly lower sales and use tax.

Passing it allows the city to build the infrastructure for Longmont, like bike lanes and pedestrian underpasses, and improve the roads we all use. In addition, the tax will be used to improve transportation efficiency and safety.

Boulder Weekly recommends a yes vote.

Town of Lyons Ballot Issue 2A Yes

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Last year, Boulder Weekly supported state taxes on marijuana, but opposed localized city surtaxes on top of them, as we felt that it was likely to raise prices enough to either push purchasers to other towns without surtaxes, or into the black market.

This year, we have revised our position as it has become clear that for the average consumer, the risks and added difficultly of the black market or driving to the next town are not worth the trouble.

Additionally, sales taxes are better applied to non-essential consumer goods like marijuana than to essential items like housewares, and communities should have the right to decide how and how much to tax themselves.

We feel this issue is especially relevant in Lyons, which was hit hard by last year’s floods. Taxing local marijuana sales is a fairly painless way for Lyons to raise needed money to rebuild, and it should have the ability to do so if it chooses. see VOTE Page 32

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We encourage our readers to vote for Ballot Issue 2A. Boulder Valley School District RE-2 Ballot Issue 3A Yes

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Ballot Issue 3A is an attempt for schools to catch up after the recession required funding cuts on the state level for schools that have made infrastructure updates and even repairs a luxury rather than necessity.

Nearly every school in the district will benefit from the half a million dollars raised by the increased property taxes, according to Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Bruce Messinger. Almost half of the money raised through the bond will be used to address aging systems, including heating, ventilation, roofs and boilers, as well as to remove the asbestos from all Boulder Valley schools. Three schools that can’t be updated in a cost-efficient manner will be rebuilt — though they’ll work to keep and build around recent construction at those schools. A new school will be built in Erie to accommodate expected growth.

Funding for schools declined during the recession, and schools are still trying to get back to the funding levels they would have seen had school funding kept up with inflation and growth.

From 2009 to 2014, schools received $1 billion less annually than what inflation and growth rates projected they’d receive, leaving Boulder County behind by $34 million each year.

Nearly 72 percent of school buildings in Boulder County are more than 30 years old. Current funding doesn’t provide for regular maintenance and improvements to buildings, according to BVSD’s master plan.

The results will be a six- or sevenyear build-out of the school district, at a cost of $47 per year for every $100,000 of actual value.

Boulder Weekly endorses this increase in funding for school infrastructure and equipment.

North Metro Fire District Ballot Issue 4A Yes

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lations increase, inflation go up, and the cost of fire-fighting equipment go up even faster.

“We’ve made cuts in administrative personal and other programs,” says Sara Farris, Public Information Officer for the North Metro Fire District. “We just can’t keep on this track anymore and maintain the same response times.”

Farris says they try to maintain the national standard of being able to respond to any call within the district within four minutes, but that if this ballot doesn’t pass, they won’t be able to maintain that standard.

Vote yes for Ballot Issue 2A. Coal Creek Canyon Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 4B Yes

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Between growing human access, climate change and drought, the west has endured years and years of ever more punishing wildfires.

At the same time, costs of fire fighting equipment have skyrocketed leaving fire departments everywhere, and especially more rural communities like Coal Creek Canyon, strapped for cash.

Additionally, fire stations are also that respond to medical calls, equally crucial in rural areas.

If we expect them to be there when we call, then we need to be there when they need assistance as well. Vote yes.

Lyons Regional Library District Ballot Issue 4C Yes

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Lyons was hit hard by last year’s floods, and more than just recovering, we here at Boulder Weekly want to see it return even stronger. A library is a boon to any community, and especially one in need of a win as part of its big comeback.

Vote yes for 4C, and help Lyons build the library that the community deserves.

Sunshine Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 2A Yes

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If the Sunshine Fire Protection District is to maintain its current level of operations, it will need more operating capitol. And we here at Boulder Weekly think that’s good for everyone.

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don’t usually get up guides the last horses at 7 a.m. I wondered backwards out of the if the horses could trailer. A banner prosense caffeine jitters claims the welcoming slothe way they could gan: “One mile, one day, sense other kinds of jitor all the way!” Anyone ters. can join the ride. Even if I was spending the you have no experience. day riding with particiLike me. pants in a 400-mile ride Ventimiglia claims he that’s now passing didn’t have much riding Boulder en route to the experience himself until a Pine Ridge Indian few weeks ago. (He didn’t Reservation in South have much construction Dakota. If I’d known experience before dismanwhere last Thursday’s tling the ski lodge, 10-mile stretch would either.) He spent a few take us — steep singledays getting comfortable “Tipi Raisers” Dave Ventimiglia and his daughter Sierra are riding through Boulder on a 400-mile trip to the Pine Ridge track, dark underpasses, riding Dakotah before Indian Reservation to raise money to reassemble an old ski lodge. downtown Golden, into the pair started out from an entanglement with Breckenridge on Sept. 19. idea: ride from Breckenridge to Pine Ridge, spreadhostile tree branches — I would’ve been plenty jittery ing the word about the project.

Now they’ve completed almost 100 miles, raising without the coffee. awareness about Pine Ridge along the way. This If the Tipi Raisers can raise enough money, they Dave Ventimiglia pulls up to the Genessee Parkmorning, a few curious commuters pull off the road. could even resume Ventimiglia’s other stalled project: n-Ride off Interstate-70 towing a horse trailer.

One asks how long the whole ride will take. building log homes to alleviate the Pine Ridge housVentimiglia is the executive director of the Tipi “About four and a half years, at this rate,” ing crisis.

Raisers, a nonprofit based on Pine Ridge and chaired Ventimiglia jokes.

“That would be a dream come true,” Ventimiglia

by Lakota elders. The Tipi Raisers recently received It’s hard to predict how long each stretch will says, “to be able to accomplish both.” an unusual donation: an old ski lodge slated for Before joining the Tipi Raisers, Ventimiglia start- take. This has made for difficult logistics. The Tipi demolition.

Raisers have hired a driver to shuttle the trailer, and ed a logging operation in the Black Hills bordering “We got the call on the third of August,” Ventimiglia knows where he’s stabling the horses for the rez. He hired Lakota people to cut pine beetleVentimiglia says. “The whole thing had to be down the night. kill that would be used to build new homes. They and out of Breckenridge by Aug. 31.”

“We’re basically winging it,” he says. “We’re good logged 6,000 trees. But due to lack of funding, the through Cheyenne, [Wyo.]. North of there, there’s Ventimiglia quickly mobilized 14 Lakota people logs now sit idle. not much. I think it’ll be a lot of camping.” to travel from Pine Ridge to Breckenridge, where The new homes are desperately needed, explains He also expects to be riding most of these miles they set up a tipi village and got to work. Piece by White Plume, who also serves on the board of the piece, they took the lodge apart — just in time.

Tipi Raisers. In her house, each of her three surviving alone. He’s grateful that people have been reaching out via Facebook to offer hay and shelter.

It symbolizes hope on a reservation facing epichildren shares their bedroom with their own family.

Since I’m the least experienced rider in the group, demic alcoholism and heartbreaking suicide rates, (One daughter has four children of her own.) White Ventimiglia is explaining horse basics to me. Don’t be which are particularly high among the youth.

Plume sleeps on the couch. This housing situation is afraid, he says.

Breathing helps.

Ramona White Plume, a Lakota elder who lives on typical on the rez.

I have a lot of experience with breathing. I think Pine Ridge, says the youth have lost the wacintaka, or “We’re like a third-world country,” she says. “The I’m going to be pretty good at this. I try feeding an fortitude, needed to fight off the perils of poverty. If trailer homes our people get, we make them livable. apple to my multi-colored horse, DJ, who drenches they could reconnect with their culture, they could But some of them have busted out windows, they my sleeve in fizzy green saliva. regain their wacintaka, she says. The lodge could don’t have water, they don’t have electricity.”

We can hear the I-70 traffic as we trot down the serve as a gathering place, a step toward rebuilding White Plume says she plans to travel to Boulder what has been lost. for a Tipi Raisers gathering. The event details are still road looking for the trailhead. DJ flinches as a truck goes by. Everyone is thrilled to get off the road. We But now the lodge sits in pieces on the reservahazy, but you can connect with the Tipi Raisers on tion, like a neglected jigsaw puzzle. Reassembly will Facebook for more information. see TIPI RAISERS Page 36 cost an estimated $40,000. So Ventimiglia had an On that cold morning last Thursday, Ventimiglia

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ride through pines toward the Lookout Mountain Nature Center. But soon DJ is no longer on board. She stands motionless.

Eventually, the group circles back to me. “Kick her!” they shout. “Smack her on the rear end! No, don’t pet her, smack her!”

DJ refuses to move. Or acknowledge me.

“Maybe it’s because you don’t have children,” says a fellow rider.

Apparently, I lack the commanding presence instilled by parenting and horseback riding.

At the nature center, where the horses are petted by throngs of children, we gaze at maps. There is some confusion about which trail will actually take us to Golden. I vaguely remember biking up these switchbacks here once, I say. We start making our way down.

After a couple missed turns and some backtracking, the horses are carefully stepping down Chimney Gulch trail. Hikers ask more questions than bikers. Ventimiglia’s explanations grow shorter. He wishes he’d brought the brochures.

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multi-purpose, he says. It could provide lodging for school groups visiting on community-service trips — groups that usually exit the rez after dark.

Ventimiglia used to bring his students to the rez, when he ran a school for troubled youth. If the rez had a comfortable, safe lodge, students could spend the night there and learn more about Lakota culture.

And perhaps more importantly, Lakota youth could learn more about Lakota culture, says Ed Iron Cloud, who serves as the president of the Tipi Raisers.

“We’re struggling as Lakota people to regain our immeasurable way of life,” White Plume says. “So a lot of our young people aren’t connected to it.

They don’t know the language, so it’s hard for them to grasp the meaning….

There’s a real-life battle going on right now.”

It is a battle with many casualties.

“Due to the economics, a lot of our people are consuming a lot of tobacco, alcohol and sugar,” Iron Cloud says.

“It’s an epidemic.”

The reservation receives commodity foods from the federal government.

Flour, oil and sugar are much more

available than fresh produce or the Lakota’s former staple, buffalo.

“Now, buffalo is a rich man’s food,” Iron Cloud says.

Diabetes, heart disease and tuberculosis strike the rez at rates several times the national rate. And alcohol is oddly accessible for a reservation that’s technically dry. Each year, 4.5 million cans of beer are sold in neighboring Whiteclay, Neb. (population: 14 people).

White Plume lost her son to a drunk driver when he was 14.

“People die at a young age here,” she says. “My prayer is that our children can live to be old men and old women. We want them to experience the blessings that come with graduating high school, going to college, having their first child.”

Life expectancy at Pine Ridge is commonly cited as the shortest in the Western hemisphere, except Haiti.

“As Lakota people, we have to call on our ancestors,” White Plume says.

“We can access help from the spirit world. But we have to know the language.”

To stem the wave of alcoholism and suicide, Lakota youth must learn the

old ways of calling for help, she explains. In the new lodge, they could practice. But the lodge is still a vision.

“We know one man can’t do it by himself,” she says. “I can’t do nothing by myself.”

In Lakota culture, it’s important to have allies, Iron Cloud explains.

“That’s what we’re doing out there, with the ride,” he says. “Making allies.”

Allies are defined by mutual respect, he explains. For example, horses can be allies.

On the trail with Ventimiglia, this alliance seems tenuous. We approach a sharp switchback, but DJ sees a shortcut. She doesn’t care which way the reins are pulling. She’s determined to pass under this sharp tangle of longdead branches. Unfortunately, I’m still on top of her. I lay down on her back, hoping to limbo safely underneath. But DJ is squeezing under it by just an inch, and I’m several inches thick. I brace myself for an abrasive tree encounter.

But suddenly, we stop. Not by choice. DJ lunges forward, but my belt buckle has gotten stuck in the trap of see TIPI RAISERS Page 38

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Eventually, she concedes, steps back, and lets me slide ungracefully off her back.

White Plume says animals are viewed as our relatives, in Lakota culture. The Horse Nation can see through us, understand us and heal us.

DJ doesn’t want to carry me. She has made that clear.

A couple arduous hours later, even Ventimiglia and Dakotah’s alliance is tested. On the creek path in Golden, amidst joggers and baby strollers, we reach an underpass. Dakotah sees a puddle in the shadows. To avoid it, he tries to climb a five-foot-tall retaining wall. Ventimiglia manages to hang on even as his saddle becomes vertical.

“I guess we’ll go around,” Ventimiglia says, when Dakotah is standing on four legs again.

But the bridge over the troubling water proves equally spooky. Dakotah appears dangerously close to standing up on two legs again. DJ, however, has magically started listening to me. We

take the lead, demonstrating to Dakotah that the bridge is safe.

Horseshoes clanking, we all cross.

The next day, Ventimiglia picked up where we left off. And on Sunday, he rode the Greenbelt Plateau Trail into Boulder with his 16-year-old daughter, Sierra. (Ventimiglia lives in Lakewood, so during this local stretch, he’s able to go home to his family at night.)

Soon, it will likely be just Ventimiglia and the horses, traveling through the plains with a map and a mission.

You are welcome to join them.

Ventimiglia had planned to ride though town this weekend, but the red tape got too complicated. Boulder city officials told him to talk to Parks and Open Space, who told him to talk to the police, who said he needed to hire an officer to escort him, which would cost $80 an hour. So he’s taking a loop around the city.

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Jad Abumrad, one of radio’s most compelling talents, wants to share how he does what he does.

Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad wants to let you in on his secret by Josh Gross

ad Abumrad, host of NPR’s Radiolab, doesn’t know exactly when it happened. Maybe it was as the show started climbing the podcast charts, maybe it was when it won a Peabody, or maybe it was around the time he was personally awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” but he says that somewhere along the way program directors started asking him just how Radiolab happened.

“I was like, ‘Shit… I don’t know,’” Abumrad says. “It’s the honest truth. I have no idea.”

On the surface it might seem like a cop-out answer to a somewhat naïve question. Radio is radio, a format made with smoothvoiced hosts chatting up engaging guests in interviews arranged by producers as bumper music fades in and out. Perhaps it gets thrown to a field reporter now and then.

Except for Radiolab.

The hour-long show is equal parts investigative journalism, avant-garde electronic sound collage, and teenage slumber party, with Abumrad and his co-host Robert Krelwich engaging in the sort of giddy, wide-eyed rapport about the mysterious and fantas-

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tic that one expects of flashlight-lit conversations in a bedroompitched tent. What started more than a decade ago as Abumrad hosting a mixed-bag program of documentaries to fill a lonely weekend time slot has grown to be a format-busting monster that is just as likely to stage a ballet to illustrate a scientific principle or get a museum to 3D print and display all the objects discussed in a particular report as it is to interview an erudite author. In America, Radiolab is the third-most downloaded podcast from the iTunes store, with nearly 2 million listeners per episode and more than 5,000 customer ratings, all of them 5 stars.

So it’s natural to see why programmers would want to know how such beautiful chaos came to be, and why Abumrad might not be able to pin it down.

“So, journalistically, I started trying to figure it out,” he says.

The quest of self-examination Abumrad embarked on was winding, leading him to elements of psychology, Cherokee mythology, Texas Hold’em poker and Wagner’s Ring Cycle, all see RADIOLAB Page 44

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Abumrad’s approach to radio earned him a cool half million bucks from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a certified genius.

things he says he thinks about when putting together Radiolab.

And the result is a new solo stage show that he will be bringing to the Boulder Theater on Wednesday, Oct. 15: Gut Churn.

“I’m stringing together a bunch of video and a bunch of music and a bunch of stuff that we’ve aired,” he says. listening is you’re like, ‘oh, I get this “And I hope it will feel like a show, but story,’ and then it doesn’t make any a little bit looser. Like a meditation, but sense. I love that feel of when you’re it will move the way the show moves.” bouncing between something that’s Abumrad says the subject matter really tightly cut and something that will be as mixed as the media. could explode.”

“Stories of how the show came Of course, a big part of the ability about, sort of the inside story of to overcome that situation is the interRadiolab,” he says. “But also a real play Abumrad has with Krelwich, a crewhirlwind way of thinking about creative mental connection Abumrad ativity and what to do when you get describes as “Jedi-like.” But the stratestruck in the creative process.” gies he will discuss in Gut Churn have Abumrad says he has developed a been applied solo as well. whole series of ways to stabilize himself “He and I can connect in a way that during those moments I don’t think I’ll ever of being creatively have with anyone else. stuck and “feeling like But we are also very ON THE BILL: Gut Churn: An Evening with Radiolab host a jackass,” and that different in what we’re Jad Abumrad. 8 p.m.

Gut Churn will be his interested in,” Wednesday, Oct. 15. Boulder effort to share them.

Abumrad says. “I Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. $30-$42 Over the six to would never pigeoneight months it can hole him. ’Cause his take to produce an interests are so wide episode of Radiolab, Abumrad says it’s and varied. And he’s voracious in what almost a given that the content will he’s interested in. But he does like to do begin to seem stale, and that he and core basic science reporting. Give him Krelwich must search for ways to revisome little mollusk that has 17 sexes talize or reframe it. and he’ll be happy. And he’ll do little Here’s an example he says is typical. pieces about some cool bird. I like that “Sometimes, we’ll have this really stuff too. So there’s overlap between us. beautiful thing that’s really finely conBut there’s a kind of story that I really structed, but it doesn’t have that anarlike that somehow intersects music, and chy,” he says. “So we will both say, ‘We culture and philosophy and spirituality. have to fuck this up.’ So we know the So left to my own devices, I will story, we’ve gone through it a hundred migrate away from core science reporttimes. We know the scenes, and we’ll ing and I’ll go towards things that are a start improvising and we’ll start trying little more esoteric and speculative.” to knock each other off our game. He’ll Recently, Abumrad flew solo to try to mess me up and I’ll try to mess investigate the cultural history of nihilhim up, and we’ll be making jokes. ism, an episode where the ultimate goal And we do that until we clear some was to discover how the cover of a book space. And the experience when you’re written by Abumrad’s brother-in-law

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by Jay-Z in a music video.

Esoteric intersection of music and philosophy indeed.

“Had Robert not been on vacation, I would have sat him down and had him be a little bit of a foil,” he says. “I would have kept him completely in the dark and then had him listen, ‘So here’s this weird thing that happened to my brother-in-law.’”

But it flips both ways.

“When I was on vacation he did a story about a bird, about a weird conversation drama with a whooping crane,” says Abumrad. “That was a bit more in his wheelhouse.”

Abumrad says that Krelwich tends to think in big, broad concepts, whereas he prefers to pull a small thread and see what it unravels.

One subject they’re both thinking a lot about lately is football.

“I really want to do a show on football,” he says. “I feel like it’s going to disappear. It’s on its way out. It’s a good time to do it before it disappears.”

A football show isn’t exactly science, but it’s the sort of small format experiment that Abumrad says radio needs more of.

“Radio should be evolving at the pace of every other medium,” he says.

“But it tends to putter along and take this very long, slow evolution, whereas TV is constantly re-evaluating itself over and over, and if something doesn’t perform, it gets axed. We don’t have those kinds of pressures, and I want that.”

And to achieve that end, Abumrad is all about experiments. It’s even why he’s doing Gut Churn.

“Part of me doing this talk tour is doing a little experiment,” he says. “It’s not a huge experiment. If I fall flat on my face, which could very well happen, it’s not the biggest deal.”

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t age 58, dobro wizard Jerry the ability to play together, to truly lis“This way, everything was bleeding Douglas has played on more ten to one another as a band. on everything else,” Douglas says. “That albums than most people “We’re not trying to blow the audiwas just the way records were made own. The number stands ence away with chops. We’re trying to back then. Those are some of my favornorth of 1,600 and counting, create a band sound,” he says. “They ite records. Maybe they were primitive, having backed up everyone from Ray had a choreography to their playing. If or maybe they were ahead of time.”

Charles to Eric Clapton to Dolly Parton you heard somebody backing up the Douglas says those largely lost to Elvis Costello. And that’s in addition verse, for instance, usually that person recording techniques have been a casual to his 13 solo albums and membership was going to be taking the next solo. It research project of his for some time, in Allison Krauss and Union Station was like a dance.” and he’s used some of them previously. and many production Anthony Scarlati Especially on his credits. work for the O So it’s not an Brother, Where Art exaggeration to say Thou soundtrack, in that Douglas has which he says the earned the ability to studio actually write his own ticket, tracked down damcreatively. aged vintage ribbon Which might microphones to get make it seem curious a crackly, dull sound that his new project, reminiscent of the The Earls of time.

Leicester, which will “The microplay Boulder Theater phone I used back on Sunday, Oct. 12, is then looked like it the sort of thing that had been through a many musicians fire, but it sounded embark on at the great,” he says.

Jerry Douglas wants to reintroduce a younger generation to the music of Lester beginning of their Douglas says Flatt and Earl Scruggs. career rather than that recording in once it’s reached that manner was a cruising altitude: a tribute band.

That’s something Douglas isn’t sure challenge, especially because the music “I always wanted to do an album of the younger generation and all its mixcan be so physically taxing to play. their stuff,” Douglas says of Lester Flatt, ing and recording technology quite “To make it all fit right, it’s like a Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain gets. And he wants to give a history les- big puzzle,” he says. “The instruments Boys, the iconic bluegrass group to son. all have to fit together right.” whom he is paying homage. “I grew up “One of the missions of this whole And they have to do it in only a listening to them. Pretty much night and project is to reintroduce it to a younger couple of takes. day that’s what I was listening to.” audience,” he says. “They didn’t get a If Douglas wants to reintroduce Scruggs, for his part, is as influential chance to hear Earl Scruggs. They’re those old tunes to a younger generation on the banjo as Douglas is on the dobro. beginning to listen to Allison Krauss in the midst of a bluegrass revival, he’s So much so that the signature style of and Nickel Creek and not knowing certainly put forth an admirable effort. bluegrass banjo, in which melodies are where that came from. I think it’s more But the question is why he thinks it inserted into rapidly picked arpeggios likely that they’d come and buy the matters. that roll through chords, is actually record because my name is on it. They “I take a look at bluegrass today, and known as “Scruggs Style.” wouldn’t know who Flatt and Scruggs a lot of it sounds the same to me,” he “There’s never been a better banjo are. But they know who we are. We’re says. player,” Douglas says. really beating the drum for them to go “I think that all musicians go And for him, that was a big part of back to the old stuff.” through an evolution. They go around. the challenge.

Douglas says a big component of It’s like a dial on a clock. It starts with “I wanted to see if I could really play that lost sound came from recording the roots. Then it gets over to 3 o’clock. the stuff,” Douglas says. “It’s a lot harder techniques. Instead of separately mixing They improve on it. Then they start to to do it right.” every instrument in an isolated environ- water it down. And by the time it gets Douglas had actually put off the ment and mixing it later, The Earls of to 9 o’clock, it’s completely different, album for a long time because he hadn’t Leicester recorded everything live using homogenized. We need to start over, to found the right combination of players vintage instruments crowded around reintroduce the roots.” that could handle the material. More vintage microphones, self-mixing by And what better place to start than than just individual talents, he was stepping forward when it was time for a with Flatt and Scruggs? searching for players that could emulate Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com solo.

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arts & culture Just say, “D’oh!”

Even ‘The Simpsons’ can’t save Catamounts’ latest

by Gary Zeidner

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emember back in elementary (Laura Lounge), Matt ( Jason Maxwell) school when you could get and Colleen ( Joan Bruemmer-Holden) an A for effort? The end manage to forget their cares for a few result of your effort might moments while quoting Sideshow Bob have earned a C, or even a and struggling to remember all of the D, but the dedication and hard work plot points from the 1993 episode. you put in shone through, and your When a stranger, Gibson (Mark teacher would recognize Michael Ensminger that with an appreciative — if relatively meaningless — “A for effort.”

While the Catamounts’ latest, Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, leaves much to be desired, the company shows great ambition by choosing to produce it, and I firmly believe they did the best they could with a fundamentally flawed script and less-than-ample budget. Catamounts gets an unqualified A for effort, but Mr. Burns winds up Meridith C. Grundei in Catamounts’ Mr. Burns somewhere decidedly further down the grade Collins), arrives, the patter is dropped scale. and guns are drawn. Gibson proves The premise of Mr. Burns is an harmless, and the sequence that follows intriguing one.The first act takes place in the “very near future” after some sort with each member of the group quesof computer virus caused all the nuclear tioning him about lost friends and loved ones he may have encountered on power plants in America to explode, his travels, is one of the most effective plunging the country into electricityand poignant that Mr. Burns has to less, irradiated chaos. The play opens offer. with a small group of survivors sitting The second act moves things foraround a campfire entertaining each ward seven years. Gibson has joined the other with the retelling of a particular band of survivors, who, along with Simpsons episode entitled “Cape Feare.”

Quincy (Mackenzie Paulsen), have With creek-cooled beers in their formed a sort of theatre troupe that hands, Susannah (Meridith C. performs Simpsons episodes in exchange Grundei), Sam (Curtiss Johns), Jenny Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company presents the regional premiere of

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out of her game cast, which includes Ben Berg Wilson in a supporting role. Many of the production details, such as the survivors’ tattered clothing and the glowing campfire in the first act, are well done.

Unfortunately, Washburn’s script simply can’t be overcome. The play aspires to comment on no less than the nature of mythology itself. With the current literary, cinematic and theatrical worlds dominated by the likes of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner, I tip my hat to playwright Anne Washburn for creating a post-apocalyptic world not intended for the YA (young adult) crowd, but her reach exceeds her grasp, and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play winds up an oddity suitable only for Simpsons uber-completists and die-hard fans of quasi-experimental theatre.

It is telling that the biggest laughs Mr. Burns earns are for lines quoted directly from The Simpsons. The play’s original material, even when delivered solidly by these actors, fares far less well.

And though I have an admittedly small data set to go by, one’s conversance with The Simpsons appears to have little impact on one’s opinion of Mr. Burns. I am a longtime fan and have seen virtually every episode of the show.

My companion for Mr. Burns doesn’t care for The Simpsons and has therefore seen very little of it. Yet both of us walked out of the play far from what town founder Jebediah Springfield would have called “embiggened.”

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for food and essential supplies. Act Two’s theatre-as-survival motif shows the most potential in Mr. Burns, and Paulsen, Collins and BruemmerHolden do their best work here as they rehearse a commercial that lovingly recalls the simple pleasures of the predisaster times with Paulsen’s character drawing a hot bath and asking her hubby to fetch her a cold Diet Coke.

Act Three jumps ahead 75 years. It is meant as a thoughtful, triumphant climax that explores how the pop culture of one era can become the mythology of the next, but it is by far the most muddled and incoherent part of Mr. Burns. The only things that truly work in Act Three are the masks that turn Catamounts’ cast into Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, Itchy, Scratchy and Mr. Burns (if those characters were filtered through Donnie Darko — kudos to Costume Designer Annabel Reader) and Johns’ portrayal of Mr. Burns.

Johns has Burns’ voice and mannerisms down to a tee.

Aside from some Fringe Fest offerings once per year, Boulder seldom sees much by way of experimental theatre. For that reason alone, I commend Catamounts for attempting Mr. Burns, which contains many experimental elements. Director Amanda Berg Wilson gets the most

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Music

Dexter Payne Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Bruce Hayes. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Bruce Hayes. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733.

Chris Sheldon and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

David Booker. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

Denny Driscoll. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont,

Books

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John Branch, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

The 2001 death of professional hockey player Derek Boogaard sparked a major discussion on the issue of violence and concussions in contact sports. In Boy on Ice, his new book about Boogard, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter John Branch delves into not only the issue of the danger of impacts in contact sports, but also the root of violence in sports and coping mechanisms of athletes.

He brings the larger issue to light by narrating the life of Boogaard — a violent, troubled boy who physically fought his way up the ranks in the sport and eventually died from a drug overdose, after which it was discovered that he was suffering from advanced brain damage.

Branch will discuss and sign his book at the Tattered Cover Book Store on Thursday, Oct. 9.

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Gary Allegretto. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Nir Naaman. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Nu-Disco Night. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Policulture. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303see EVENTS Page 52

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Thursday, Oct. 9, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.

The War on Drugs has been through many lineup transformations since its beginnings in 2003. However, the band has not strayed from its folk-rock, harmonica-infused tunes that incorporate dreamy, psychedelic melodies and ’80s organ synths. The approach has earned a growing fan-base who appreciate the modern interpretation of the Dylan-goes-electric sound. Rolling Stone declared The War on Drugs one of the “breakout acts of 2014,” and they are building on that title with non-stop touring through the U.S., U.K. and Australia through 2015. Their tour hits Boulder’s Fox Theatre this Thursday.

BIFF Shorts, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303443-8696.

The folks at the Boulder International Film Festival have set their dates for February 2015. The BIFF is Boulder’s largest celebration of cinematic arts and has brought incredible local and international productions, as well as celebrity support from big names among the likes of James Franco and Alec Baldwin. To get ready for the much anticipated 2015 festival, BIFF will be hosting a night of delicious food, cocktails and a presentation of the awardwinning short films that premiered at BIFF 2014 at eTown hall on Thursday, Oct. 9.

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events

EVENTS from Page 52

Almond Brothers. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Andra Taylor and Nate Dodge. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Austrian Connection. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Chaeus. 12 p.m. Mac’s Place, 1640 Pace St., #400, Longmont, 303-678-8929.

Contraband. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Esther Sparks and the Whiskey Remedy. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder.

Fast Eddy. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

John Craigie & The Vixens. 7 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.

Last Men On Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Marcus Lucas show with accordian player. 7 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

Michelle Malone. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Mitch Barrett. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163.

Mitchell Long in Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-443-3889.

Naropa: Warrior Songs. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Radiate Unified Dance Party with Mr. Gettdowne.

9:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Robert Clyne Jr. Duo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Selasee and The Fa Fa Family. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355.

Seth Philips. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

St. Lucia: The Night Comes Again Tour. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

UltraLowFi. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Willie Bean & The Bluegrass Rangers. 6:30 p.m.

Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Willie Houston & Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

The Zimmermans. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillery, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Events

Thursday, Oct. 9

John Lehndorff. 6:30 p.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Conscious Living, Conscious Aging— by Ron Pevny. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sunday, Oct. 12 The Blood of Olympus —

by Rick Riordan. 1:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Timeless Love, Morgenthau and Me — by Lucinda Franks. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Boy on Ice — by John Branch. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Innisfree: Bombay Gin — Kaminsky, Hegnauer, Open. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303.

Rick Riordan will read from his new novel The Blood of Olympus at the Boulder Theater on Sunday, Oct. 12.

Innisfree: Poetic Assembly! with Aimee Herman, j/j hastain, Samuel Ace and CA Conrad. 8:30 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Innisfree: Critical/Animal Inhabitance - A Poetry Event. Giscombe, Iijima, Russo and Woltag.

9:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Friday, Oct. 10 Against All Grain: Meals Made Simple — by Danielle Walker. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

The Emerald Mile — by Kevin Fedarko. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Innisfree: Sam Taylor. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Saturday, Oct. 11 Innisfree: Writing Group. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Innisfree: Barry Schwabsky. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

A Taste for Writing. Food writing workshop with

Monday, Oct. 13

Innisfree: Jack Kerouac School [Dis]embodied Poetics Conference: Writing Thinking Being Off-Site Reading. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Innisfree: Naropa-CU Writers Gathering. 4 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

The Cheat System Diet. Jackie Wicks. 2 p.m.

Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349.

Monday, Oct. 13 A Sudden Light — by Garth Stein. 7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

Further Out Than You Thought — by Michaela Carter. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Tuesday, Oct. 14 The Glass Cage — by Nicholas Carr. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

A Quilt for Christmas — by Sandra Dallas. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Innisfree: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Wednesday, Oct 15 Your Body Knows the Answer — by David Rome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

All the Truth is Out There: The Week that Politics Went Tabloid — by Matt Bai. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Boulder Creek Cleanup. 8 a.m. Boulder Flycasters Memorial Park, Boulder, 201-213-7295.

Pumpkin Pie Days. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303.

Railroad Stories with Hiram Wheeler. 2 p.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Dancing With Demons. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

Giant Pumpkin Contest. 10 a.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Scandinavian Monthly Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Women of the West Saturday group. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Adobe Photoshop Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Junior and Senior Fishing Derby. 9 a.m. Wally Toevs Pond, 75th Street between Jay Road and Valmont, Boulder.

Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m.

Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Macbeth LIVE. 10:55 a.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.

Sunday, October 12

Motus Theater performance: Do You Know Who I Am?. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Barely Alive. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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WOW! Craft Club. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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Pleasant streets, Boulder, 303-444-5192.

BLAME IT ON HOBOKEN, Live! 2:30 p.m. Still Cellars: a distillery and arthouse., 1115 Colorado Ave., Suite C, Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Pumpkin Pie Days. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Brandon Hagen. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Colorado Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

All ages welcome!

David Booker. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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Jesse W. Johnson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Naropa: Warrior Songs. 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

The Neil Bridge Rhythm Express w/ Karen Lee. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Prairie Scholars Brunch. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Rise & Shine Communikey Brunch with DJ Brandon Brown & Guests. 10:30 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Sacrebleu. 4 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Shawntel with Blue Recluse. 3 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Tupelo Honey. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

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Events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

To inquire, email

Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

info@watershedschool.org

The Library Concert Series Presents: David Korevaar & Matthew Dane. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Meet the Spirits. 12 p.m. Columbia Cemetery, 9th and

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Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

Through Oct. 18.

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Ambition Facing Jester’s Dinner West. Boulder Theatre, 224 Ensemble Theater Bug Theatre will be putting on Night of the Liv- Main St., LongCompany. The ing Dead on Friday and Saturday nights through mont, 303-682Dairy Center for 9980. Through October. the Arts, 2590 Nov. 30.

Walnut St., BoulA Second der. 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 2.

Helping: The Church Basement Ladies SeMr. Burns. The Catamounts. The Dairy Center quel. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440Ave., Boulder. 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 8 7826. Through Oct. 18.

Night of the Living Dead. The Bug Theatre, Dylan Went Electric. Miners Alley Playhouse, 3564 Navaho St., Denver, 720-984-0781.

1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241.

Through Nov. 1.

Through Oct. 19.

Dracula. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Jester’s Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Nov. 1.

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Reynolds Teen Advisory Group (TAG). 2:30 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Sacred House Gathers - Yoga & Community Healing. 10 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Tea Dance with Live Music. 1 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Watercolor Basics. 12:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Monday, October 13 Music Children’s 60th Anniversary Open House. 11 a.m.

Thorne Nature Experience, 1466 63rd St., Boulder, 303499-3647.

Chris Ramey Hosts Open Mic. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Open Javan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Events Branding Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Fall Color Tree Walk. 5 p.m. Museum of Natural History South Entrance, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway streets, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Women and the Body Series with Melissa Michaels.

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Zombie Makeover. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Zumba plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Tuesday, October 14 Music The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m.

The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Flip and Fly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

The Honey Dewdrops. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wednesday, October 15 Music The Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Diverse Musicians’ Alliance. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Eric Adrian Gonzalez. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300

Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

RFS DU SOL. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events BSD Rehearsals OR Intermediate Intensive Class.

7:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Cancer using Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy & Functional Medicine. 6:30 p.m. Six Persimmons Apothecary, 840 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-583-0179.

Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-5031902.

Socrates Cafe. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Esther Sparks. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-

FACE. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Faculty Tuesday: Hsing-ay Hsu, piano. 7:30 p.m.

Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928008.

Lone Bellow. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Mark Diamond presents: The Heavy Cats. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Mitchell Long Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Open Mic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wellington Bullings. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m.

Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder Folders - Learn Origami. 6:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Facebook Marketing Hands-On. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Fall Color Tree Walk. 5 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History South Entrance, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Pages and Paws. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Plumbing for High Performance Homes. 12 p.m.

Elevations Credit Union, 2960 Diagonal Highway, Boulder, 303-443-4672.

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Sukkot Mishpacha. 4 p.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch

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Music makes us all ‘Alive Inside’

by Michael J. Casey

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ast night I pulled out a favorite Rotten Tomatoes sharpens the mind. The proof is in the album of mine that I had not pudding every time Cohen presses play. listened to in some time, Yet, Alive Inside is not really about Doolittle by Pixies. Within secCohen and his musical cure. Alive Inside onds, I was transported to is a not-so-subtle attack on how Americans turn a blind eye to aging and another time, another place. A smile sickness. According to Alive Inside, 5 milcrept across my face, my feet began to tap and a series of memories flooded forth. lion Americans have been diagnosed with How does this happen? Where do dementia, and prescription medication these memories, so vivid they seem tangiand nursing home care reigns supreme. ble, come from? How is it that a pop We make way for tomorrow by shuffling song can bring forth something that no grandma and grandpa off, loading them other work of art can? up with pills and condemning them to “Music connects people with who spend the rest of their days receding into they have been, who they are and their their own minds. It’s an undignified way lives,” explains Dan Cohen, the subject to end one’s life. of the documentary Alive Inside, which Alive Inside compares that life to the Alive Inside shows the transformative power of music in elderly and mentally ill people. is playing at The Boedecker Theatre one Nell Hardie lives with her husband, Oct. 8–11. Cohen, founder of the notNorman. The Hardies have been using for-profit Music & Memory, works tireHenry — whose viral video is what spurred on this music at home, and with success, to ward lessly to help patients with dementia access their documentary — undergo an unbelievable transformaoff dementia for 10 years now. The Hardies combat memory through the power of music. It is a long, tion. Prior to the music, Henry couldn’t recognize his the disease not with medication, but with music and uphill battle that Cohen faces, but the results keep own daughter, but with “Goin’ Up Yonder” playing, with devotion. It’s working, but it takes time, care and him optimistic.

Henry can answer questions with clarity. a whole lot of love.

Armed with a simple iPod, Cohen visits patients Cohen and first-time documentarian Michael Cohen’s cure isn’t just music — although music with varying degrees of dementia, Alzheimer’s and, in Rossato-Bennett travel to various nursing homes, does make everything better — it’s attention. What one case, schizophrenia to see if music will stir somerepeating this experiment over and over again, positing could be more effective than basic human interaction? thing in them. It does. The music starts, and these that music may be the most effective tool to combat Not much. As I watched one patient, Connie, weeping comatose patients spring to life. Most sing, many dementia. Alive Inside doesn’t spend much of its lean and happily hugging Cohen, a line from Kurt dance and some are so overcome with emotion they running time (78 minutes) on the science of this musi- Vonnegut ran through my mind: “There’s only one rule burst into tears. It’s one of the most joyous things you cal cure, choosing to show rather than tell, but here is that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to will ever see. the short and skinny: It works because it stimulates the be kind!”

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com It sounds too good to be true, but people like patients, forcing them to interact, and that interaction

ALIVE INSIDE

IVORY TOWER

ROAD TO EDEN

See full review above. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

A shocking and disturbing look at higher education in the U.S., Ivory Tower examines the many problems facing universities and students who attend them. Filmmaker Andrew Rossi brings to light the crisis looming for these young people, asking, “Is it all worth the cost?” Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

Road to Eden is a documentary that follows Dan Nicols and his band in the fall of 2011 as they travel the American Deep South during the Jewish Festival of Sukkot. Sukkot, for the Gentiles out there, is the last of Three Pilgrimage Festivals, known for being an unreservedly joyful week-long holiday. For Nicols and his band, each town, each day, is a new adventure, a new celebration, even through heartbreaking stories, and the movie as a whole reminds us that we are all traveling together on a road to a better future. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

BOYHOOD

Director Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood over 12 years with the same cast, cinematically charting the rocky terrain of childhood. We take our journey through the eyes of a young boy named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who grows up on screen before our eyes. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette act as Mason’s parents, and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Boyhood will also be shown at the International Film Festival, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 10 and 11, Muenzinger Auditorium.

CLOSED CURTAIN

Banned Iranian filmmaker Panahi made this semi-autobiographical film in secret.This is the story of a screenwriter who goes into hiding with his dog after the regime declares dogs “impure” and bans them from walking in public, an actual law in Iran. A young woman in need shows up on his doorstep to disrupt his solitude. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats is turning its October beer dinner into a celebration of food, beer and film with a multi-course meal paired with BRU’s seasonal offerings and craft beer documentary, CRAFT. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

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LAND HO! An exploration of aging, loneliness and friendship within the story of a pair of 60-something ex brothers-in-law on a road trip through Iceland. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

LA SYLPHIDE — PARIS OPERA BALLET The first of two versions of the ballet premiered at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra with choreography by Filippo Taglioni and music by JeanMadeleine Schneitzhoeffer. Ultimately, the ballet is a story about the insatiable human desire to find true love. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS A dramatic film on demonic possession, director Jerzy Kawalerowicz places his camera in the figurative and literal position of God, and puts a spin on cliched “black is evil, white is good” symbolism. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 15, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS: 2014 With both fiction and documentary, the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 94-minute theatrical program of eight short films from the 2014 edition of the festival. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

WAKING LIFE A movie that speaks to the existential crisis occuring in us all at one point or another — what does it all mean? Created with rotoscoping-style animation, the film creates a trippy experience for viewers as they journey along with a man as he traipses through dreams searching for the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, IFS at VAC Basement Auditorium.

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‘Gone Girl’ does not recommend marriage

by Ryan Syrek

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arning to newly engaged couples: Do not see Gone Girl, a movie that makes marriage look like The Hunger Games with slightly more alleged sodomy.

Writer Gillian Flynn, adapting her own novel, filters her twisty-turny whodunit (if there even is an “it” to be “whodun”) through the worst possible take on humanity. These are barely human beings and more like piles of awful shaped to resemble people. These unpersons are obsessed with either directly or voyeuristically engaging in the most biblically vile behaviors. Good thing director David Fincher sort of makes this whole thing a comedy.

Let’s back up. Gone Girl is the story of Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike). From the jump, Fincher deploys cloying rom-com dialogue and “meet cute” fairy tale romance sequences like sarcastic landmines. These flashbacks, pulled from Amy’s diary, are intercut with the present day. And in that present day, Amy is missing, and everyone thinks Nick killed her, mostly because a wax-faced, fauxenraged blonde anchorwoman is saying, “He did it” on cable TV every night.

Nick’s only allies are his twin sister, Margo (Carrie Coon), and high-profile defense lawyer Tanner Bolt (Tyler Perry).

Just as lead investigator Detective Boney (Kim Dickens) finds “nail-in-the-coffin” evidence against ole schlubby hubby, things take a turn that will only be revealed by jerks and entitled boneheads who think people who don’t read literary source material deserve to have other mediums of entertainment ruined for them.

Approaching Gone Girl gets…complicated. And not just because there’s Boulder Weekly

more wicked trickery here than is found in a politician’s playbook. Objectively, in a strictly technical sense, Gone Girl is almost inarguably fantastic: Fincher’s frequent collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Finch crank out another sensationally ooky score; Affleck gives perhaps the performance of his career; Pike declares that, dammit, she will be famous now; Fincher spray paints more of his stunning trademark noir-thriller graffiti visuals and the supporting cast are all flawless — yes, even Perry.

The question is how to reconcile that against a legion of seemingly misogynistic suggestions and the presence of a male lead treated too sympathetically despite being a total ass. Thankfully, Fincher gives us an answer, provided you’re looking for the clues. These include things like Nick’s comments about “women constantly picking him apart,” a bystander quipping about how close Margo and Nick seem (“that’s twincest”), Detective Boney’s final interrogation and Tanner Bolt’s last words.

This is parody. It’s a fart noise in the face of people who DVR Nancy Grace’s show. It’s a sinister satire of husbands and wives who fantasize “harmlessly” about murdering their spouses. This is Flynn stretching humanity to ludicrously evil bounds and letting Fincher dance around in her arterial spray.

Gone Girl defies expectations by both being and mocking what it is. At once a condemnation of murder-as-daydream and a bloody fairy tale, it is a singularly weird experience that marks a high point for several actors and a low point for its reflection of modern America’s basest desires.

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BOEDECKER THEATER Independent film & cultural performances in high definition.

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Oct 9 - 7:00 talkback with Stan Havlick Oct 10 - 6:30 | Oct 11 - 6:30

AlIvE InSIDE MuSIC AnD MEMORY

Oct 9 - 2:30 & 4:30 | Oct 10 - 4:30 & 8:30 Oct 11 - 4:30 & 8:30

lA SYlpHIDE: pARIS OpERA BAllET Oct 12 - 1:00 | Oct 15 - 1:00

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ROCK AnD ROll SuKKOT

Presented by Hazon and the Boulder Jewish Film Festival Oct 12 - 4:00 & 7:00

BOYHOOD

Oct 15 - 4:00 | Oct 16 - 1:30 & 6:30 talkback with Dick Jessor | Oct 17 - 3:30 & 8:30 Oct 18 - 3:30 & 8:30

ClOSED CuRTAIn

Oct 15 - 7:00 talkback with Firuzeh Saidi Oct 16 - 4:30 | Oct 17 - 1:30 & 6:30 Oct 18 - 1:30 & 6:30

SAn SOuCI FESTIvAl OF DAnCE CInEMA

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ClASSICS: pERSOnA

Oct 19 - 3:00 talkback with Jim Palmer

EnjOY HAzEl’S BAR AT THE BOE 26TH & WAlnuT STREET - BOulDER

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cuisine review Susan France

D

riving through Longmont, you might notice a bright flash of orange off the side of Highway 119. That’s how it starts.

On return trips you’ll steer your eyes from the road to pick out more details: a latticework fence, paintings of sandwiches and the sign that will eventually beckon you in: Bavarian Bakery.

Inside that orange concrete box you’ll find a solid lineup of delightful delights.

Michael’s Bavarian Bakery and Deli, it’s full name, features a small deli and cafe and a conjoined bakery making a long list of German-style pastries.

The cafe serves from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., and serves mostly breakfast and lunch diner standards like waffles, eggs Benedict and club sandwiches.

But it does feature a rotating daily special that hews closer to the European cookbook. Bratwurst Mondays beget Hungarian beef goulash Fridays and wiener schnitzel Sundays.

The bratwurst special ($9.95) this reporter ordered had a strong, smoky flavor and a pleasantly firm texture for a brat. My server said that the sausages are currently made by friends of the owner, but that it is their ultimate goal to make them in-house. With a sausage like that, it would have been nice to expand

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the mustard offerings beyond French’s yellow, but it wasn’t a dealbreaker.

It came with an order of handcut fries and housemade sauerkraut spiked with paprika.

The kraut was especially skillful as it wasn’t a wet, sloppy mess, like sauerkraut so often is.

A cup of French onion soup served on the side was made with a melted slice of American cheese on top (sacre bleu!), and had slightly firmer onions than the dish is typically served with, but the broth man-

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aged an especially rich beef flavor.

But the thing that really makes Michael’s Michael’s Bavarian Bakery Bavarian 613 Frontage Road Bakery, is, as Longmont its name 303-678-1014 would dictate, the Bavarian baked goods. Pastries and ryes and streusels, oh my. It’s like some sort of complex social experiment on psychology to pick just one. Especially since the average price of a baked delight from that case hovers around $1.50, often for items that might run you $4-5 in Boulder.

I settled on a chocolate rum ball. And a custard cupcake. And a cinnamon roll.

And a slice of streusel. And something called a Napoleon Hat made from almond dough. And a massive spike in my blood sugar. A trip to Michael’s is an opportunity to completely undo your fitness regime in totality.

Of the bunch, the chocolate rum ball was my favorite, with a dense structure and a strong cocoa flavor. But picking a favorite pastry is sort of like asking a parent to pick a favorite child.

Once fully baklavated, this reporter took a box of pastries back to the office and made a lot of friends for only a couple bucks. Bonus.

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Market to take over the cafe, and that it is expected to reopen in February, dishing up local snacks.

If you’d like to suggest a name for the new cafe, you can do so via an online form at http://bit.ly/1pR5KGE. But be warned, creative pottymouths, your oh-so-hilarious suggestions about calling it the “Windbreak Diner,” will probably get weeded out by city staff who will curate a selection from the submissions for an online poll. Get literary if you want to make the cut. Restaurant at the End of the Universe, anyone?

— Josh Gross

Boulderites are definitely proud of their food culture. Some might even call it snobbery. But it’s okay, because according to rankings recently released by real estate blog Redfin, we’re not just garden variety snobs; we’re some of the nation’s top snobs when it comes to coffee.

Boulder ranked 3rd in the nation for coffee snobbery, just behind EXPANDING ESCOFFIER Seattle and Portland.

The Auguste Escoffier School of “We selected these Culinary Arts in Boulder will soon be cities because they have expanding its digs in South Boulder.

We’re number three! We’re number three! We’re number three! the most indie coffee shops per capiThe City of Boulder has gotten on ta, according to Foursquare data,” board with the expansion, naming Redfin wrote. “We defined indie cofThursday, Oct. 9 “Escoffier Day,” fee shops as those with fewer than 10 week, with the doors flying open at 7 a.m. which — if we put our conspiracy hats on — retail locations.” on Wednesday, Oct. 15. seems like a scheme to help cut the Post Denver, our neighbor and nemesis, The chain has 15 locations across the Office budget by providing yet another fake ranked 5th like a bunch of chumps. Suck it, U.S., mostly in metro foodie centers, and holiday.

But hey, we’re not saying that’s the losers! And by “it,” we mean a delicious cup focuses on making meals that are both case.

Just that it looks pretty suspicious from of coffee from a Boulder coffee shop. healthy and delicious. Nothing on the menu beneath this tinfoil hat that is baking our Read the full report at http://bit. clocks in at more than 600 calories and brains at 350 degrees until golden brown. ly/1rXkwPi. there are plenty of vegan, vegetarian and Any members of the public interested in — Josh Gross gluten-free items. checking the school out or learning more — Josh Gross about its expansion plans can go to an LYFE KITCHEN’S KITCHEN TO COME TO LIFE open house at Escoffier on Saturday, Oct. 11 Anyone strolling down Pearl Street in the from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Helpful and clog-shod FARMER’S MARKET TAKES OVER LIBRARY last few months is likely to have noticed the pastry wunderkinds will be on hand to tell BRIDGE CAFE full-window signs plugging the imminent you all you ever wanted to know and more The cafe in the downtown library bridge opening of Lyfe Kitchen, a new “we’re so has been shut down for some time as part of about the school’s pastry and culinary profancy, you already know, we’re in the health the library’s remodel. But the City of Boulder grams, as well as its popular farm-to-table lane, from LA to Tokyo,” style restaurant. program. announced this week that it has signed a Well that opening is going down this — Josh Gross deal with the Boulder County Farmers’

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The Flatirons Food Film Festival returns for a sophomore year

by Michael J. Casey

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ou know, it’s really funny.

These two big loves in my life, and one is film and one is food,” avid food blogger, preservationist and food swapper Julia Joun tells BW over beers at BRU. “Reading about food films, reading about food film festivals and [I thought] ‘Why can’t we have that here?’”

So last year Joun made it happen.

Joun handles promotional campaigns for CU’s International Film Series and convinced programmer Pablo Kjølseth to give her a weekend for the fest. Five movies were booked, panels were scheduled and sponsors were hunted down. Superior Liquor came to Joun’s assistance as a sponsor and the inaugural fest was a hit.

The original festival was called Chow Down, and it brought together five sumptuous movies over the course of three days, each averaging 125 attendees per screening.

Back for a second year, and sporting a new name, Flatirons Food Film Festival looks to expand the palate even more. Once again, five movies will be screened (Craft, Trattoria, Seeds of Time, Growing Cities, El Somni) but this year, Joun booked even more panels so attendees can interact with restaurateurs, brewers, mixologists and more.

“People like having events,” Joun

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explains. “I really tried to add a lot of events. To the point where it might be madness, but we’ll see.”

Joun sets the table for Flatirons Food Film Fest’s opening night film, Craft, with a craft beer-pairing dinner at BRU on Wednesday, Oct. 15 and on Oct. 16 with a Craft Beer Celebration at Sterling Rice Group’s Culinary Center.

Craft, a 2014 documentary from

Craig Noble about the craft beer industry, opens the film portion of the fest on Oct. 17.

“Having a craft beer movie is like a gift in this area,” Joun says with excitement. “Craft beer is so popular and appreciated.”

Bryan Selders, head brewer of Prost Brewing Company in Lafayette, will introduce Craft and participate in a post-screening discussion with Dan

Rabin, author of Colorado Breweries Guidebook. Need another reason to attend? Jason Rodgers, executive chef of Oskar Blues Restaurant, will host a prescreening craft brew cooking demo and sampling.

Oct. 18 features Trattoria ( Jason Wolos, 2012) and Seeds of Time (Sandy McLeod, 2013). Trattoria, the only narrative selection for the fest, is a drama/ comedy set in a San Francisco restaurant. A workaholic chef (Tony Denison) tries to balance commerce and culture while reconnecting with his estranged son ( John Patrick Amedori) over their shared love of food. A humorous look at both the employees and customers of the restaurant world, Trattoria will be complemented by a lunch panel discussion about balancing life and work in the restaurant industry at Jax Fish House.

Seeds of Time is a documentary about Cary Fowler, an agricultural pioneer. Addressing what agricultural obstacles await the changing climate, Fowler does his part by preserving and cataloguing seeds from all over the globe in a giant seed bank located near the Arctic Circle.

The festival continues on Oct. 19 with Growing Cities (Dan Susman, 2013) and El Somni (Franc Aleu, 2014). see FOOD FILM FEST Page 66

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Part documentary, part performance art; El Somni bills itself as “An opera in a dozen courses and a banquet in a dozen acts.” Joun is very excited to close her festival out with El Somni, a movie that jumped on her radar when it played at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

“This is not like any other film you have seen,” Joun says. “It’s a Spanish documentary and a culinary opera. It aims to bring all the senses together.”

Chef Ian Kleinman, a Colorado

native and practitioner of molecular gastronomy, will offer a demonstration of food and liquid nitrogen prior to the screening. Alex Figura, who worked at the restaurant featured in the movie, will deliver closing remarks.

When asked to sum up her Flatirons Food Film Festival, Joun smiles when she says, “Food is so vivid, it just translates perfectly to the big screen.”

All movies screen at Muenzinger Auditorium on the CU-Boulder campus. Tickets start at $7 for CU students and seniors and $8 for general admission. Want to see them all? Festival passes run $25 and can be purchased at Whole Foods.

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he first Great American “My head brewer Jeff Griffith and I Beer Festival (GABF) was visited Cologne, the birthplace of held in the Harvest House Kolsch, this summer to see where our Hotel in Boulder in 1982. beer rated against Germany’s best,” says The motley collection of 22 owner Mike Leawinski. “We both breweries brought 40 beers, and the 800 agreed ours was as good as any we had. people in attendance can say they samWe knew we had to enter it in the pled the beginning of the craft beer GABF. I am still in shock ours was revolution. ranked best in America.”

But 33 years later, Bru Handbuilt Elizabeth Miller now that the GABF Ales brought home has swollen to include silver for Loch in the more than 1,300 Scotch ale category. breweries, 5,500 beers “It’s a seasonal and 49,000 attendees, beer we have on tap it’s safe to assume in fall and winter, brewers in Boulder but I decided to brew it a bit earlier County (BOCO) due to customer realized the bar was comments last year. set pretty high when They loved it,” says they headed to the owner Ian Clark. “So competition in when we heard our Denver on October 2. name, it was so But that made the sweet. The shock is 10 medals BOCO still setting in. This brewers brought is a lifetime goal.” home all the sweeter.

In its first ever It also restated the GABF, The Post obvious to beer lovers This is a great American beer. Like if Abraham Lincoln were a beer. everywhere: We live Brewing brought in a beer nirvana. home silver for Only four states Howdy Beer in the earned more medals.

American-style and international-style Left Hand Brewing, led the way for pilsner category. The beer is one of a second straight year, hauling in an their core offerings and is described as impressive three silver medals and tying “a revisionist American pilsner.” for most medals overall. The brewery “We have worked hard on this was not named champion in the midbeer,” says Brian Selders, head brewer. size brewery category, but were one of “I think too many brewers tend to three runners up. Over the last two ignore American pilsners due to mainyears, the brewery has won six medals stream commercial breweries. We want(three gold in 2013), and nine in the ed to redefine pilsners using the freshest last five years. Blackjack Porter and ingredients and create a full flavored Smokejumper Smoked Imperial Porter beer. We are so happy to see that others joined the perennial favorite Milk Stout love it too.” on the podium this year.

Along with Shine Brewing winning Emily Armstrong of Left Hand its first medal for Liberation Gluten summarized it this way: “Lately, we Free in the gluten-free category, keep winning for our darker styles.

Boulder County mainstays Upslope Obviously we must be onto something.

Brewing, Oskar Blues Brewing and Our brewers have unique skills at creat- Avery Brewing all brought home meding balanced, flavorful beers.” als also.

There were four first-time winners It’s good to see BOCO still leading from the area. Fate Brewing led the the way. And even better to have these way, winning the only gold medal of award-winning beers available to all of the bunch for its Laimas Kolsch in the us daily.

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Situation #1: If you meet resistance or doubt, say this: “Ha! This diversion can’t slow me down, because I am in possession of an invisible magical sword!” And then brandish a few charismatic swipes of your sword to prove that you mean business. Situation #2: If angst and worry are preventing your allies from synchronizing their assets with yours, say this: “Begone, dread! For with the power of my wicked crazy songs, I am the destroyer of fear.” And then sing your wicked crazy songs. Situation #3: If you’re finding it hard to discern the difference between useless, ugly monsters and useful, beautiful monsters, say this: “I am a useful, beautiful monster!” Your kind will flock to your side.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

In her poem “Advice to Myself,” Louise Erdrich speaks of the human heart as “that place you don’t even think of cleaning out. That closet stuffed with savage mementos.” I invite you to use her observations as a prod, Taurus. Now is an excellent time to purge the savage mementos from your heart, and clean the whole place up as best as you can. You don’t have to get all OCD about it. There’s no need to scour and scrub until everything’s spotless. Even a half-hearted effort will set in motion promising transformations in your love life.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

I hope you will learn more in the next 8 months than you have ever before learned in a comparable period. I hope you will make a list of all the subjects you would love to study and all the skills you would love to master, and then devise a plan to gather the educational experiences with which you will reinvent yourself. I hope you will turn your curiosity on full-blast and go in quest of revelations and insights and epiphanies, smashing through the limits of your understanding as you explore the frontiers of sweet knowledge.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Three times a week, I take a hike along a rough path through an oak forest. I say it’s rough because it’s strewn with loose rocks. If I don’t survey the ground as I move, I’m constantly turning my ankles. Or at least that was the case until last week. For two days, with the help of a rake, I cleared many of those bothersome obstacles off the trail. It took several hours, but now the way is smoother. My eyes are free to enjoy the sights that aren’t so close to the ground.

I recommend that you do similar work. Stop tolerating inconveniences and irritations that hobble you. Get your foundations in shape to serve you better.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

“I am naughtiest of all,” wrote poet Emily Dickinson in a playful letter to Maggie Maher, dated October 1882. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to let that same declaration fly frequently from your own lips in the coming week. Feel free to invoke other variations on the theme of naughtiness, as well: “I am exploring the frontiers of naughtiness,” for example, or “You need to be naughtier” (said to a person you’d like to get naughty with), or “Being naughty is my current spiritual practice.”

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

“There’s a way not to be broken that takes brokenness to find it,” writes Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem “Cinco de Mayo.” I suspect this describes your situation right now. The bad news is that you are feeling a bit broken. The good news is that this is a special kind of brokenness — a brokenness that contains a valuable secret you have never been ready to learn before now. Allow yourself to feel the full intensity of the brokenness, and you will discover a way to never be broken like this again.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In a competitive game show on Japanese TV, 13 people had slabs of meat tied to their foreheads. They then poked their heads up from below, through holes in the floor of an elevated platform, where a hungry lizard was stalking around. But not one of the contestants stuck around when the lizard came to nibble the meat; they all ducked down out of their holes and fled to safety. That was probably wise, although it meant that the prize went unclaimed. Now I’m wondering, Sagittarius, about what might happen if a similar event were staged in your neighborhood. I suspect there’s a chance you would will yourself to stand calmly as the lizard feasted on the meat just inches from your eyes.

As much as I admire that kind of poised courage, I want you to know that there are better ways to express it. Be on the lookout for noble challenges with goals that are truly worthy of you.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Director Michael Bay makes big, loud, fast, melodramatic action films, including Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the four Transformers movies. The critics hate him, but he’s unfazed. “I make movies for teenage boys,” he says. “Oh, dear, what a crime,” he adds sarcastically. I love that stance.

He knows what he’s good at, and makes no apologies for doing it. I recommend that you cop some of that attitude right now.

LEO

AQUARIUS

American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was ahead of his time. He created the genre of the detective story and mastered the art of Gothic horror tales. According to the Internet Movie Database, 240 films have referenced themes from his work. British writer Aldous Huxley wasn’t a fan of Poe, though. He said Poe was “too poetical — the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.” Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you may be at risk to lapse into a diamond-ring-on-every-finger phase yourself, Leo. While I am all in favor of you unveiling more of your radiant beauty, I’m hoping you won’t go too far. How about wearing diamond rings on just four of your fingers?

While walking in San Francisco, I passed the Pacific Heights Health Club. The sign out front said, “Birthday suits tailored here.” It was a witty reference to the idea that working out at a gym helps people get their naked bodies in good shape. I’d like to interpret the sign’s message in a different way, and apply it to you. The time is right for you to get back in touch with your raw, original self, and give it the care and the fuel and the treats it has been missing. Who did you start out to be? What does your soul’s blueprint say about who you must become? Home in on your source code and boost its signal.

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Republican Jody Hice is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District.

To bolster his authority, he repeats quotes by revered figures from American history. One of his favorites has been a gem from the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

The only problem is, those words were actually written by country singer Dolly Parton, not by Adams. Don’t get fooled by a comparable case of mistaken identity, Virgo. Be on the alert for unwarranted substitutions and problematic switcheroos. Be a staunch fact-checker. Insist on verification.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Horror novelist Stephen King has sold more than 350 million books. But when he was young and destitute, still honing his craft, his self-confidence was low. His breakthrough work was Carrie, about a teenage girl who develops telekinetic powers. But when he was first writing that manuscript on his old manual typewriter, he got so discouraged that he threw his first draft in the trashcan. Luckily for him, his wife retrieved it and convinced him to keep plugging away.

Eventually he finished, and later sold the paperback rights for $400,000. I hope you have an ally who will go digging in your garbage to fish out the good stuff you unwisely discard.

Or maybe this horoscope will convince you not to scrap it in the first place.

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Dear Dan: I’m 25, I’m virgin, and I find it quite difficult to relate with girls. My main problem is I can’t accept my sexuality.

I’m into fetish SM. But it seems like there are two parts of me. The first part of me wants to lick women’s feet and be humiliated. The second part of me can’t accept the first part and only wants to love and be loved by a girl. I would say there was nothing wrong if I could just lick feet to get the relationship a bit more “spicy,” but the problem is that I think I can’t excite myself the “traditional way.” I had a few girlfriends in the past, and when it was the time to penetrate, I got instantly limp. I’m going to a therapist now.

In my past, there were issues with parents divorced in a horrible way and a violent father. My therapist said there is an Oedipus complex and I could be freed if we work on this. So this is why I hope going away from home will make things get better. I want to have sons with my future loved woman and, finally, to have sex. Fetishists are considered perverted and are mocked in the country where I live, so it’s really difficult to find girls interested in this stuff to try to explore.

— Fetishist Exposes Erotic Troubles Dear FEET: You can accept your sexuality, FEET, but for a host of reasons — shame and fear being the likeliest culprits — you refuse to. And where has your refusal gotten you? You haven’t freed yourself from your harmless and common kinks. By choosing to view your desire for kink and your desire for love as mutually exclusive — someone can love you or they can humiliate you, but they can’t love and humiliate you — you have succeeded in creating a crippling case of performance anxiety.

And now you’re working with a Freudian therapist — they still make those? — who believes kinks can be cured with couch time and moving vans.

Your therapist is wrong. Jesse Bering is a research psychologist, a science writer, the author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, and one of my go-to guest experts. Here’s what he told the dad of a teenager with a far rarer kink than yours: “If it’s true that Pokémon lights this boy’s fire… there’s not much [this dad] can do about his son’s ‘pathetic’ orientation. By age 17, his son’s singular erotic profile is pretty much fixed, like it or not…

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terns of attraction than others. But whether it’s a penchant for Pokémon, feet, underwear, or spiders, the best available evidence suggests that some people — mostly males — have a genetic predisposition for being ‘sexually imprinted’ during development.”

So, FEET, at some point during your sexual development, you imprinted on feet and erotic humiliation. You can pathologize your kinks by viewing them as rooted in the violence you were exposed to as a child, or you can take comfort in the fact that there’s no proven link between abuse and kinks. The violence you witnessed/suffered at home as a child may be an unpleasant coincidence, not a root cause, and either way, it shouldn’t prevent you from reconciling the two parts of your adult self — the guy who wants a woman to love him and the guy who wants a woman to order him to lick her feet.

And here’s how you’re going to do that: You’re going to get online and find the kink personal ads in your country, and you’re going to post ads and respond to ads. I know kink personals exist where you live, FEET, because I managed to find some in two minutes. If the fetish scene in your country isn’t big enough, or if you’re worried about exposure and mockery, get your ass to London or Berlin and explore the booming hetero fetish scenes in those cities. Want to gain some experience and some confidence? Find a nice pro-Domme where you live (lots of those) and become a regular. A business relationship with a pro-Domme is unlikely to blossom into love, FEET, but a few sessions with a pro-Domme you like — and who likes you back — will help you see that affection and SM can go together.

Finally, FEET, I don’t know what your financial/work situation looks like, but spending a few months in a city with a large kink community — a summer in New York or Berlin or Seattle — could be a transformative experience. Throw yourself into the kink scene, go to the munches and parties, and you’ll meet kinksters who are open, unashamed, and capable of loving their partners even as they humiliate or are humiliated by them, aka “role models.”

Send questions to Dan Savage at mail@ savagelove.net and follow him on Twitter @ fakedansavage.

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Singer is optimistic about how the roll-out has gone so far. “Time will tell.

I would give us a B-plus. There were things we couldn’t have predicted or didn’t focus enough on to start out with that I wish we had. I think edibles was one place — dosing with edibles, consistency of edibles, regulating it in a way that kids aren’t going to get their hands on it, regulating it in a way that I know what a Chips Ahoy cookie looks like, so I want to know a marijuana cookie just by looking at it.”

And if he’s approached by other state leaders looking at legalization? I would say, ‘Figure out your banking, figure out the edibles and how you want to regulate those and pretty much do most of what we did.’”

Singer says the legalization issue has been an easy tightrope for him to walk because he’s seen how marijuana has hurt people, but also how drugs like alcohol have hurt people as well.

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Singer announced his intention to My alliteration on marijuana is, ‘How run for the District 11 seat in do we keep it out of the hands of kids, November 2011. A month later, Deb criminals and cartels?’ If we can do Gardner resigned to become a Boulder that, we can create a safer community, County commisraise more tax Courtesy of Jonathan Singer sioner, and Singer money, start to was appointed by deal with the a vacancy comdrug honestly and mittee to fill her not overstate the term. “At the end extent of its damof January 2012, ages.” in the middle of Amendment the session, I’m 64 set strict sworn in to the deadlines for statehouse. In implementation November I run by the legislature, for re-election. I which made for win and, with a an interesting year under my dynamic. “What belt, I become a was nice about it kind of red shirt was that it was a freshman.” collegial discusAmendment sion,” Singer says.

64 was passed in “It was such a Rep. Jonathan Singer’s background in social that same elecnew concept that work has helped him develop sensible laws tion, and Singer the traditional around cannabis regulation. and conservative battle lines had Shawn Mitchell found themselves the not been drawn. More people were only ones among 65 representatives interested in at least learning before who supported the ballot issue. That deciding, which is nice. You saw people got him onto the committee writing asking genuine questions, and for the the rules for legalization. most part it was an open and honest “I didn’t really ask for a seat at the conversation. It’s never been about table, but I’ve enjoyed charting this what’s best for me. It’s about what’s new course,” Singer says. “It’s been a best for our community. That was kind unique experience for me because of of a breath of fresh air for some of us.” my background in social work. And He admits the legislative landscape frankly, there are times when I’ve felt is already changing. “Now you’re seeing

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“If someone had told me in 2011 that three years later I would be running for re-election for a seat I didn’t have,” Singer, who rebelled in high school by not using cannabis, said recently. “Or that by the end of my second year that I would have helped pass a statewide tax increase on legal marijuana, I would have laughed at them.

But that’s the way it happened.”

And how did Jonathan Singer wind up a major player in Colorado’s legal adoption of Amendment 64? Trace at least part of it to his past, which has been mostly in social work. “I like to joke that I worked with kids and drug addicts. At the Capitol, it’s drug addicts and people who act like drug addicts. Nobody laughs at the Capitol when I say that.”

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