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At Nucla and Naturita, which lost their small coal plant in 2019, the challenge is even greater.

Maybe Craig, Hayden, and the other e councilor’s nal appeal is to ‘join me’ in ‘preserving Westminster’.

Having supported the council’s drive to reduce a ordable housing in the city, Baker also frets that a future Council might be more considerate and allow housing costing less than a seven-digit gure.

To preserve anything is to keep it in its existing, even ossi ed state (think Lenin’s corpse). But what would we be preserving, should we vote for Councilor Baker? A city that is unsustainable and fossilized and cares only for itself. A city that, unless you own and can pay for the kind of manse occupied by the councilor, you can only visit – not inhabit. A city that considers the approaches and concessions that must be made to ameliorate the e ects of a deteriorating climate only apply to others.

Here’s a practical idea: when voting in November and holding your pen over the circle by the name of Bruce Baker, try standing before a mirror. Take a good look. Is that what you want?

Is that who you are?

Chris Stimpson, Westminster

towns will gure out new careers by working with the state and the utilities. But maybe not.

You can nd a deeper read on this at BigPivots.com, where Allen Best tracks Colorado’s energy and water transitions as best he can with his set of skills. Every newspaper that employed him no longer exists.