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FROM PAGE 10 before doesn’t mean they weren’t happening. Airbnb’s website on June 18 showed a handful of listings that appeared to be in unincorporated Douglas County. (Some listings don’t show an exact location on the website’s map.) e text of the county’s ordinance regulating short-term rentals says: “Short-Term Rental license applications that comply with the license

Letters

FROM PAGE 15 truth. Oh, wait. ere’s no such thing as objective truth any longer. We skirt that boundary by declaring OUR truth, and no one can challenge us to think or believe di erently than what our own stubborn brains embrace.

Yell who is more loving or more hateful. Keep ramming each other in the bumper car pit. Or slog out of the mud pit and take a shower. Pick whichever pit metaphor you wish ….

Linda Mazunik

Lone

Tree

Critique of writing

Wow! at Brandi Bradley person is a regular ashpoint for excited comments from defenders of the LGBTQIA community. I am referencing the letter by Margaret Furlow “Bradley seeks to divide”). e letters started with “Bradley tra cs in vicious slurs” by Eric Brody who defended members of the LGBTQ community. Next was the smug “We deserve better than Bradley” by Megan Burch, who used LGBTQ+. And “Bradley’s brew of confusion” by Lloyd Guthrie, who used anti-LGBTQ. I was overwhelmed by all the vivid and thrill- application provisions herein for existing Short-Term Rental Properties shall be submitted to the County no later than ninety (90) days from the e ective date of this Ordinance.” at provision is in place to provide a grace period for short-term rentals that were in operation prior to the ordinance’s adoption, according to county sta . e ordinance took e ect upon the county commissioners’ approval of it on July 11. ing adjectives bandied about. Eric used decent and sensible three times to prove his point. What was his point again? Did he want those decent people to accept and celebrate LGBTQ people? Actually, he claimed that no one demanded anyone else do anything. “Apart from refraining from slurring whole communities.” Does that include Christian and Muslim communities? ose who may not want to make the LBGTQ+ communities their religion, too? And could we even agree on what they want to be called? Too many letters for me to keep them straight. Talk about a brew of confusion.

New licenses may still be requested after the 90-day period.

Lloyd used Hate, Religion and Freedom, truth and triggers all in the same sentence. Intentional misdirection and disengenuity is used in one paragraph and ideological misdirection and disengenuity in another. Because the goal is to keep us divided and o center with disingenuity in the third paragraph. Reinforcing this false construct. Is he trying to say that Brandi is a liar?

Big words, spewing vitriol. Is this any way to achieve the peace and unity that they claim they want? Are they sharing a thesaurus? Do they sound like word salad?

Mary Ann McCoy Lone Tree