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isten... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just a year ago for bestowing a trillion-dollar tax giveaway on corporate elites. They told us they did it — not for the rich — but to help the middle class and poor families. How would enriching the already rich benefit the rest of us? “Trickledown Economics 101,” said Trump & Company, explaining that giving more money to elites would spark “an immediate jump in wage growth,” because CEOs
would use their bonanza to reward workers for their productivity. The White House even got specific, declaring that average pay would jump as much as $9,000 per person. But here we are in the thick of the 2018 congressional elections, and — shh — silence. Not a single lawmaker who voted for this grand ideological promise is mentioning it, much less running ads touting their role in hammering the plan into law. Why so shy? Because their trickle-down giveaway was a crude hoax from the start. CEOs spent the GOP’s trillion-dollar boondoggle
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on lifting their own exorbitant pay — moneyed elites got the gold mine, working families got the shaft. Far from a $9,000 income boost, the workaday majority of Americans now find that their hourly earnings are lower than a year ago. But who cares? Being a Trumpeteer Republican means never admitting your lies and never apologizing. Steve Mnuchin, a former Wall Street banker who’s now the Treasury secretary, is a perfect example of a blasé, ethically challenged Trump huckster. He recently shrugged off the failure of the bloated tax cut to raise working people’s income: “Wages are going up on some people,” he declared disingenuously. Yeah, for multimillionaires like him. Yet, he wonders why most Americans despise him and his ilk. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 11 , 2018 5
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t’s more a situation than a dilemma really. When it comes to Cliff Willmeng’s candidacy for Boulder County Commissioner as the Green Party candidate, I felt the need to recuse myself from Boulder Weekly’s endorsement process. Over the last few years, I have spent a good amount of time with Willmeng. We’ve discussed oil and gas/fracking, labor issues, issues confronting the Latino community and the billionaire funding problems with the establishment Dems and the Big Greens. We’ve hoisted a good number of beers over that time, and despite the fact we don’t always agree on everything, I consider him a friend and felt our relationship was too close to allow me to vote on his endorsement. But I also feel the need to explain why I plan to vote for him despite what a pain in the butt he can be to those he sees as too willing to compromise on the most important issues of our time. I find Willmeng idealistic and with little patience for those who talk a good game yet aren’t willing to pursue real policies that reflect their stated beliefs. I know from our conversations he finds excuses like “it would cost too much” or “the courts have already ruled on that” or “we just have to get the best deal we can in the real world” to be maddening and disingenuous. And I agree with him on that. I just happen to be less abrasive about it most, but not all, of the time. And that is the knock on Cliff; that he doesn’t always play well with others. But I think it’s a complaint that’s outlived its usefulness. Let me toss out a critical piece of information that just came down from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the world’s scientific authority on global warming. According to IPCC’s report that was just released Oct. 1, at the end of its 48th session in Incheon, South Korea, we only have approximately 11 years to stop global warming at our current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, before it’s too late to halt the process. You read that right, 11 short years. The report went on to say that unless the world fully commits to “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” right now, the planet is game over. Now consider this. The establish6 October 11 , 2018
ment Democratic Party does not endorse Proposition 112, which would establish a 2,500-foot setback between oil and gas operations and occupied buildings and water supplies. The industry claims 112 would prevent 85 percent of all future oil and gas production in our state. That, of course, is just another oil industry lie because they can now drill horizontally up to 3.5 miles, meaning it would cost them more to develop some minerals but they’d still be producible, just at lower margins. But forget the lie, I wish it were true. That would make 112 a “farreaching and unprecedented” societal change, just the kind of thing we have to have right now to save our children’s future. So why does the establishment wing of the Democratic Party, and virtually all of its candidates, refuse to endorse Proposition 112? Simple answer: money and power with a healthy dose of fear tossed in. So long as the party’s major, billionaire donors from Michael Bloomberg to George Soros and a barrel full of family foundations are invested in natural gas production and infrastructure, most establishment Dems will be as well. And don’t forget the Big Greens who are funded by these same donors. Sure, the local Colorado Chapter of Sierra Club endorsed 112 (and I admire and appreciate that), but when it came to putting money where their mouth is, Sierra Club National gave Jared Polis, who opposes 112, $600,000 and gave the pro-112 effort nothing last I checked (payback for 2014?). Could it be because Sierra Club can’t afford to piss off Bloomberg, who has given them $80 million so far, not to mention the other millions they’ve gotten from oil and gas companies and other supporters of the industry? I think you can answer that one. This is exactly the kind of twofaced crap that makes Willmeng, and me, crazy. Even Boulder County Democratic candidates, who have endorsed Proposition 112 — polls show that position is politically expedient in this county — used their name recognition and influence in the primary to help elect other Dems who oppose it... even while pro 112 Dems were available on the ballot. Such endorsers could have at least called out their chosen see DYERTIMES Page 7
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ollowing the Kavanaugh confirmation, a lot of progressive pundits and Washington swampies started wondering out loud if the newly energized Republican base would stay energized long enough to vote in November. There are times when these guys are, to borrow a phrase, the dumbest smart kids in the room. How could the Republican base not stay energized? The left’s hyperventilating activists won’t shut up about Kavanaugh long enough to let Republicans cool down. And neither will Trump. He’ll be speaking at big rallies almost every day between now and Election Day, the modern-day equivalent of Harry Truman’s furious whistle-stop campaigning in 1948, and at all of them he’ll be waving Kavanaugh’s bloody shirt and tearing into Democrats as angry, unhinged extremists. The bases of both parties will be pumped up to the last ganglion and then some until Nov. 6. That much is about as certain as anything can be in politics. But speculating about the relative energy in the Republican and Democratic bases may be speculating about the wrong thing. As pollster and BFF Paul Talmey used to remind me, most elections are decided by those voters who feel least strongly about the candidates and issues involved. There can be a lot of reasons for a voter’s absence of passion about a particular race. It may be that they don’t follow politics and know nothing about the candidates or even the office. Or that they view the race as a choice of the lesser of
two evils. Or it may be because they aren’t directly affected by the issues or the outcome. But sometimes something comes along that fires up non-passionate voters or, more important, just nudges them toward one candidate or another. Democrats think the issues that can do that this time are the #MeToo grievances — sexual assault and harassment of women, threats to abortion rights, white male privilege and so on. They think these issues and the Kavanaugh affair will energize women in suburban districts to vote for Democrats even if they don’t feel particularly strongly about them. These voters don’t have to be mad as hell, just energized enough to send a message with their vote. It’s a strategy that may well deliver the House of Representatives to Democrats. Or maybe not. Discussion of the political impact of the Kavanaugh affair has focused almost exclusively on how it will move women to vote. Almost no attention has been given to how it might move men. The assumption seems to be that since abortion and #MeToo issues don’t impact many men directly, those issues don’t make a big difference in how they vote. That may have been true in the past, but it may not be true this year, thanks to how the Democrats treated Kavanaugh and what that says about how they see men generally. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation may or may not have been true. But a lot of Democrats — like Senators Booker, Hirono, Gillibrand and see DANISH PLAN Page 7
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candidates on the issue. That’s like claiming to oppose a war and then telling everyone to vote for pro-war candidates. I see it as just another form of climate change denial that puts political party ahead of the planet’s future. I understand endorsing an anti-112 Dem when its a choice between them and a Trump Republican, just not when there is a better alternative to combating global warming. Folks, if we’re lucky, we have 11 years to take radical action to slow global warming. If that doesn’t make global warming a litmus test for the Democratic Party and its candidates then what does? The science says natural gas is killing us, the Democratic Party and its billionaire donors say it’s good for us. Which of these two are you going to bet the lives of your children on? The option of not betting doesn’t exist, so you better get it right because we’re out of time. No more kicking the global warming can down the road. We have to be smart enough to see through political jargon like “sustainable,” and “clean energy,” words used to appear sympathetic to the 112 cause while the candidates dance around their refusal to endorse it. Politicians who would steal our children’s future just to make sure they don’t alienate their big donors aren’t worth the price of the paper that my ballot is printed on. I’m not crazy, but Donald Trump is, and I fully understand that at this point in history we need a blue wave to save our democracy. I’m not going to vote against Polis and help Trump Mini-Me Walker Stapleton get elected just because I believe Polis has made our environmental future subordinate to his
own political ambitions... at least not this year. And I’m not suggesting you do that either. I am suggesting that you vote for the person who will do the most to fight global warming in every race. Which brings me back to Willmeng. This Commissioner’s race is one of the only races where I don’t feel like I have to compromise my principles because of the Trump factor. I have the choice between a Dem and a pretty radical progressive in Willmeng. And frankly, at this point in Boulder County’s history, with oil rigs poised on the horizon waiting to invade and destroy our health, quality of life and property values, I’m voting for radical. With only 11 years left to win the war against oil and natural gas or lose the planet — not to mention losing our county in the next year or two — we don’t have time to support good-intentioned folks who are willing to endorse members of their party who still support natural gas. I want the Commissioner who we are most likely to find on the front lines trying to stop our county’s destruction, not the guy shaking his head and talking about how he wished there was something more he could have done to stop it. Eleven years, folks, 11 short years. We all better get a lot more radical and start voting for people outside the mainstream when the opportunity presents itself, because once it’s gone it’s gone, and Bloomberg and Soros and Sierra Club and establishment Dems won’t be able to put the Earth back together again. Please remember, this is my opinion, not Boulder Weekly’s. At the time of this writing, I don’t know who this paper will endorse in this Commissioner’s race.
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Blumenthal with a lot of amens from the grassroots — have made it clear that they no longer believed truth was a defense against such accusations. The accusation itself is sufficient to at least provisionally condemn the accused — which is another way of saying that the presumption of innocence until proven guilty doesn’t apply in #MeToo cases. Moreover the message was delivered dripping with snark and anger about “the patriarchy,” “white male privilege,” “toxic masculinity,” “old white men,” etc. — or more plainly with the new racism and sexism that has come to define the Democratic Party’s identity politics. Nobody knows how many men groped or harassed or bullied or shamed a girl in high school or college or wrote something offensive in a high school yearbook, but chances are the numbers run into the millions.And for a lot of those men, the take-away messages from the Kavanaugh hearings are: 1) No one is safe,
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2) There is no defense, and 3) There but for the grace of God go I. Feminist militants may reply that they have it coming, that now they have some inkling of what it feels like to be wronged and disbelieved, that they should suck it up and shut up, and so on. And they have a point there. But they should also ask themselves this question: Is threatening and insulting men going to make them more likely or less likely to vote for your candidates? Is it going to give male voters who don’t feel as strongly about #MeToo issues as women, but do feel threatened and insulted by how the Democrats are weaponizing them, the nudge to vote Republican? A surprisingly common mistake of both amateur and professional politicos of all stripes is they forget that half the voters are members of the opposite sex. Republicans have been burned by this error repeatedly in the past. This year it may be the Democrats’ turn.
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We are writing to endorse Sonya Jaquez Lewis as Colorado Representative for House District 12, Lafayette, Louisville and Longmont. During her time as an activist and leader in Boulder County, Sonya has a proven track record of working for all members of our community, protecting our environment and being a voice for House District 12. She’s a true progressive, and she truly cares. Sonya is not a single-issue candidate. Sonya knows, as we do, that working families are increasingly unable to find and keep affordable housing. She served on the Boulder County Board of Health, where she coordinated emergency housing assistance for families who lost their homes during the catastrophic floods of 2013. She is the only HD 12 candidate with a concrete plan to help jump-start affordable housing in Boulder County. No affordable housing plan can work without jobs that let current Longmont residents continue to live in the city. Sonya will always keep working families in the forefront. She is the only HD 12 candidate endorsed by the AFL-CIO and the Boulder Area Labor Council. Access to health care is the third essential for healthy communities. Many working families experience homelessness because of an adverse health event. A licensed pharmacist, Sonya knows health care inside and out and is uniquely qualified to advocate for improved access to affordable healthcare. These qualifications have earned her endorsements by Planned Parenthood and other health care and women’s organizations. And finally, as a Latina LGBTQ Coloradan, Sonya’s voice is needed more than ever today. She has a lifetime of experience in building coalitions and getting the job done. She is the voice our district needs today. We are proud to support Sonya Jaquez Lewis for for House District 12 representative. Marcia R. Martin and Tim Waters of Longmont City Council
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Before approving any public school tax increase, the voters should demand that the following common sense reforms be implemented: 1) Prohibit paying anyone to perform union work. Public schools exist to educate children — not to benefit the union. Tax-funded union work is
taxpayer abuse. 2) Abolish teacher tenure. Tenure protects low-performing teachers at the expense of our children’s education. Furthermore, protecting low-performing teachers is insulting to the average and high-performing teachers. 3) Slash the number of non-teaching employees. According to the Digest of Education Statistics, only 46.3 percent of Colorado public school employees were teachers in 2015, the latest year data are available. Colorado’s public schools have become insanely bloated with non-teaching employees. The focus needs to be put back on the classroom by capping the number of nonteaching employees, to at most one non-teaching employee for every three teachers. 4) Comply with the Colorado law against seniority-based reduction-inforce procedures, by removing the illegal seniority-based provisions from all union contracts. RIP the lowest performers first — not short timers. If Colorado would implement the above common sense reforms, more than enough money would be saved to adequately fund public schools without any tax increase whatsoever, statewide or local. Vote no on Amendment 73 (the statewide public school tax increase) and also no on any local school district tax increase, in order to help incentivize the public schools to implement discipline and prioritization in the spending of our tax dollars. Chuck Wright/Westminster
In support of Phil Weiser The role of the state Attorney General is to be the lawyer for the state, responsible for overseeing a large team of attorneys who are addressing areas of law from consumer protection to water law, as well as advising state agencies across the board. Phil Weiser has an outstanding track record of leading complex litigation to protect consumers. For example, while at the U.S. Department of Justice, he managed teams of attorneys to get rural broadband to first responders. Phil also served as the Dean of the CU Law School for five years. Again, showing his successful management skills. The Republican opponent wants you to believe that only trial law is the necessary experience to be the state Attorney General. In fact, knowing, understanding and making sure the law is followed is how our state Attorney General’s Office needs to operate. It will with Phil Weiser. And that’s see LETTERS Page 9
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Against Ballot Initiative 6A I oppose Ballot Initiative 6A and hope both the residents of the affected district and the Superior Town Board will do the same. We residents have tremendous respect for the professionals in the Rocky Mountain Fire Protection District (RMFPD) and the service they provide to all of us. The inherent ambiguity evident in 6A suggests that all taxpayers (residential and commercial) will be subject to RMFPD’s own determination on their additional needs for funds. Less transparency will be afforded to the district residents regarding the trade-offs that should factor into any decision as it relates to service levels. Operating expenses at RMF have increased by 11-13 percent annually since 2014 with personnel expenses increasing nearly 17 percent since 2015. Additionally, RMFPD has an enormous cash balance and does not charge for ambulatory services as done so by other emergency service organizations. Opportunities for cost reduction through service changes must always be fully evaluated prior to asking voters to increase taxes. With the ballot language of Initiative 6A, RMFPD would not be required to do so. Unfortunately, the RMFPD already has one of the highest mill levies in the state. Homeowners and businesses in Superior pay nearly three times more than our neighbors in Louisville. This asymmetry puts our businesses at a distinct economic disadvantage to those same neighbors. Based on my own analysis, if the ballot initiative passes and assuming continued modest increases in Superior residential property values, the RMFPD mill levy would be increased from 20.445 to 23.9 in 2020 and then to 29.0 in 2022. I urge the voters in the district and the Town of Superior Board to support a no vote on Ballot Initiative 6A. The RMFPD should not be allowed to change the mill levy on their own and without specific assent by the voters. Neal Shah/Superior resident and Trustee candidate
In support of Sonya Jaquez Lewis I am writing to endorse Sonya Jaquez Lewis as Colorado State House District 12. As a Lafayette City Council member, I care that Sonya has served our town for over 21 years. Boulder Weekly
Sonya served on the Boulder County Resource Conservation Board representing Lafayette and served on the Boulder County Board of Health for seven years. Sonya helped initiate and vote for the first oil and gas specialist to audit and detect any toxic spills from drilling in Boulder County. This specialist position was the first of its kind in the state. Sonya does not just talk, she takes action. Sonya Jaquez Lewis is an oil-andgas-impacted Coloradan. She organized her neighborhood and worked with Erie neighbors and has assisted members of Lafayette’s TAND, Together Against Neighborhood Drilling. Sonya supports Proposition 112 and is against Amendment 74. She gathered almost 200 signatures at public events like the Lafayette Farmers market for Proposition 112. Sonya is the true environmentalist in the race. She is the only Democratic candidate with her support for Proposition 112 right on her literature. Sonya is also the only candidate endorsed by Conservation Colorado, the largest environmental group in the state. Sonya is not a one-issue candidate. She is endorsed by the national group Progressive Change Committee because she has strong stands on working families, affordable housing and universal health care. Sonya is a licensed pharmacist and has a concrete plan to decrease the rising cost of prescription drugs. Sonya will keep working families as a priority. She is the only candidate endorsed by the AFL-CIO and the Boulder Area Labor Council. As a city council member, I want our state house representative to have experience, to be responsive and full of integrity. Sonya Jaquez Lewis is that leader. JD Mangat/Lafayette City Council
Paul Danish and CU South This is the second time in my 65 years I am compelled to write a Letter to the Editor. Agree or disagree with Paul, I feel he is an absolute treasured resource for Boulder County. His thoughtful columns are informative, entertaining and well-written. E.g.: his column regarding CU expansion to the old STK site in Louisville (Re: “CU should expand in Louisville,” Danish Plan, Sept. 27, 2018). As a cyclist, I’d add one more data point. The U.S. Highway 36 bike path. Usable most of the year in our climate, it blends very well with the desire to reduce congestion on our ever increasingly clogged roads. Keep up the great work, Paul! Tom Shonka/Hygiene
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his is a tough year for making responsible political endorsements. We pride ourselves on putting together the most complete and wellresearched election guide around. We lose sleep over it; we argue passionately over it; we try to look at every issue and race from every angle before making a recommendation. As all of our regular readers know, we never choose a candidate simply based upon party affiliation. We are pretty darned critical of both major parties and we aren’t afraid to endorse a Green or Libertarian or Republican candidate if we believe they are the best person for the job. As always, we made every attempt to interview every candidate, and with few exceptions we did so. Jared Polis refused to do an interview with this paper for the first time ever this year. That was disappointing. If you’re going to support fracking and oppose the setbacks in Proposition 112, we feel like you should be willing to, at a minimum, explain those positions to voters. But here we are in 2018 and Donald Trump is president, and that’s where it gets complicated. As has been written in this intro many times in past years, we believe in the Howard Zinn view of the two-party system. That’s to say that the establishment wings of the two parties are 98 percent the same when it comes to economic issues, both being funded by billionaires who want to achieve similar economic goals, namely the status quo for themselves. The main differences between the major parties tend to be based around social justice and civil rights issues such as race, gender, sexual orientation, abortion and education. But again, here we are in the time of Trump and the old thinking no longer seems to apply. That creates new challenges for our endorsement process. For example, the most recent scientific research, a report released on Oct. 1, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the world’s scientific authority on global warming — says that we only have approximately 11 years to stop global
n FEDERAL OFFICES Representative to the 116th United States Congress – District 2 Joe Neguse – Democratic (D) ❑ Peter Yu – Republican (R) ❑ Roger Baris – Libertarian (L) ❑ Nick Thomas – Independent (I)
There are several candidates Boulder Weekly has chosen to support in spite of what we consider deeply problematic flaws, mostly related to the influence of corporate money. Joe Neguse is one of those candidates. That being said, there’s a lot to like about Neguse. He’s the son of East African immigrants, which he credits 10 October 11, 2018
warming at our current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, the primary ingredient of natural gas. It says that the only chance to save the planet is to take rapid and radical action to halt the use and development of fossil fuels. Normally, such dire warnings from the scientific community would serve to affirm our position that working to stop global warming is a litmus test for a Boulder Weekly endorsement at the state or federal level. And we’re not talking about rhetoric where politicians spout phrases full of words like “sustainability” or “clean energy” and then work against real laws or amendments that would actually make a difference. We’re talking about candidates willing to take serious action to stop global warming. In a normal year, I don’t know how we could have endorsed a candidate that didn’t fully support Proposition 112. As we have often written, we see Democrats who take corporate and party money in exchange for not doing anything that might upset the oil industry as just a different flavor of climate change denier. When it comes to losing the planet in a short 11 years without radical action, their continued support for the George Soros, Michael Bloomberg pro-natural-gas position is no different than an old Republican senator throwing a snowball on the Senate floor and declaring it to be proof that the planet’s doing just fine — thank you, Jim Inhofe. At some point, all of us have to choose: Do we believe the billionaires who fund the Democratic Party, who tell us the natural gas they have so heavily invested in is good; or do we believe the scientists who tell us that if we elect these natural-gas proponents, people like Polis and Joe Neguse, for even one more term, it will likely all be over, too late to turn things around. But unfortunately it’s not that simple this year, as we live in the time of Trump. We understand that if a massive blue wave doesn’t wash over this country in the next 30 days, then this president, who has done such harm for people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, journalism, law enforcement and countless other areas, could well finish destroying our
for his nearly life-long dedication to public service and his commitment to reforming American immigration and protecting DACA recipients. He’s in favor of expanding Medicare, which he calls a great “vehicle” for universal health care, and he supports a $15 minimum wage tied to inflation. He’s championed paid parental leave and voiced his concerns about how the Democratic JOE NEGUSE Party has slowly but surely forsaken unions and the right of workers to collectively bargain over the years. Neguse calls climate change the “overriding concern for my generation.” He supports taxing carbon emissions,
democracy, or at best, set it back for decades to come. Our children will grow up in a world where they only believe the other side is wrong and that all information that they don’t agree with is fake. So we have to ask ourselves: How do we not endorse Jared Polis — even though we truly believe his environmental policies could well destroy the planet in the very near future — when the alternative is a Trump clone with an equally bad or worse environmental position, plus a thousand other problems on social justice issues that Polis doesn’t have? Then I hear the voice of Zinn saying that the two parties always control us by making their enemies seem so scary that we feel forced to vote for the lesser of two evils out of fear. But Trump is president, and we do fear. We fear the racism, the totalitarian leanings and narcissism so deeply ingrained that our president could see a nuclear exchange as preferable to being personally embarrassed. These are not ordinary times. In the end, after hours of talking, frustration, anger and, for me, at least a certain amount of shame, we are endorsing a lot of Democrats who will do nothing to create the radical change we need to save the planet over the next 11 years, the last 11 years when we can still make a difference. In several races — there is simply no other way to frame it — we are advocating for the lesser of two evils. So with few exceptions, which you will find in the following pages, we recommend you turn out in mass and vote blue this year. It’s a sad day when this paper feels compelled to make such a dull-bladed suggestion to our readers. But these are extraordinary times, and we must all do what is necessary to turn from the destructive path on which we now find ourselves. And then, as quickly as possible, we need to hold the Democratic Party, its candidates and elected officials responsible for their planet-destroying policies designed more to raise money and placate the oil and gas industry than to protect the planet. But first thing’s first. — Joel Dyer, Editor
investing in renewable energy, eliminating oil and gas subsidies in the federal tax code and banning extraction on federal lands. Which is why we take issue with the numerous law firms from which Neguse has accepted campaign money that support oil and gas development. Neguse has taken campaign contributions from Brownstein, Hyatt et al, the law firm that represented the Colorado Oil and Gas Association against citizen initiatives passed in Lafayette, Longmont and Fort Collins. His campaign has also accepted contributions from Polsinelli, which represented Extraction Oil & Gas in the recent civil suit against several nonviolent protesters at a recent action against
pending extraction near Bella Romero Academy in Greeley. Holland & Hart and Hogan Lovells, both of which have represented large oil and gas extraction companies, have also supported Neguse, not to mention Snell & Wilmer, who Neguse still works for as an attorney. In our conversation with Neguse, he voiced support for Proposition 112, saying he signed the initiative earlier in the year when it was still numbered 93. It would take an act of God to keep Neguse from winning the CD 2 seat, and in the age of Trump, we need all the progressives we can get. That being said, Green Party write-in candidate Kevin Alumbaugh is about as progressive as they come, for those uninterested in compromising. Boulder Weekly
Representative to the 116th Unites States Congress – District 4 Karen McCormick (D) ❑ Ken Buck (R)
While CD 4 Democratic candidate Karen McCormick isn’t as progressive on oil and gas extraction as we want from our elected officials (she won’t come down on either side of Proposition 112), we endorse her based on the need to build a more progressive House of Representatives, however incremental that progression might be. McCormick does sup- KAREN port building up renewable MCCORMICK energy sources, particularly wind, in the district. She supports single-payer health care or Medicare for all “if we can get there,” citing Sens. Michael Bennet and Tim Kaine’s plan to open up Medicare as a public option buy-in as a model to follow. She has a relatively compassionate stance toward immigration reform, stating a solid commitment to protecting DACA recipients and streamlining the process guest workers go through to receive H-2B visas. She expressed frustration at incumbent Ken Buck’s absence from the most recent vote on a 10-year re-authorization of the federal farm bill. Ken Buck did not respond to requests for an interview. n STATE OFFICES Governor/Lieutenant Governor Jared Polis/Dianne Primavera (D) ❑ Walker Stapleton/Lang Sias (R) ❑ Bill Hammons/Eric Bodenstab – Unity Party ❑ Scott Helker/Michele Poague (L)
Democrat Jared Polis has a number of goals and policies with which we agree, and he’s our choice for governor. Polis pledges to fight for Medicare for all, possibly pursuing a regional, multi-state system with one common payer. He says he’ll help resurrect a health care co-op, like the popular, but now defunct, Colorado HealthOp. JARED POLIS Polis says he’ll fund full-day preschool and kindergarten, citing the benefits to young children who receive early education, and the civic and personal benefits when parents can return to work sooner. Polis says he’ll create a group to write ballot language that will ensure passage of the requisite funding. We hope that’s successful. We like that Polis will allow cities and counties to raise the minimum Boulder Weekly
wage; that he’ll provide paid family medical leave; that he’ll encourage profit-sharing at Colorado companies; that he’ll pursue a Front Range rail, and that he’ll work to have Colorado run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2040. When it comes down to it, there really is only one choice for governor. Though we’ve disagreed with Polis in the past (on trade and oil and gas regulation, for instance), and we disagree that he’s as progressive as Republican strategists and out-of-state media would have you believe, we do know he will pursue many objectives with which we agree. And, most importantly, he’s not Walker Stapleton. Stapleton would work to end sanctuary cities, take people off Medicaid, eliminate the possibility of single-payer health care, expand funding to charter schools, deregulate the oil and gas industry, repeal the common-sense gun laws passed in 2013, and pursue environmentally damaging water damming and diversion projects. So whether you vote for his values and goals, or you vote for who he’s not, we just hope you vote for Polis.
those collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, which is something incumbent Secretary of State Wayne Williams says is a realm he’s “not looking to enter.” Though Colorado currently enjoys the highest voter registration rate in the country, we think the Secretary of State’s office can do more to increase voter turnout. Griswold’s pledge to add same-day voter registration, provide permanent polling stations, and put voting stations on college campuses are ways to do just that. That Griswold decided to run for Secretary of State after Williams complied with the Trump administration edict for states to hand over voter data ensures, in our opinion, that she has the requisite perspective to serve our voters righteously.
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Secretary of State ❑ Wayne Williams (R) Jena Griswold (D) ❑ Amanda Campbell – American Constitution Party (ACP) ❑ Blake Huber – Approval Voting Party
We enthusiastically support Democratic candidate Jena Griswold for Colorado Secretary of State. Griswold runs a private law practice in Louisville. She grew up in Estes Park and worked as an anti-corruption lawyer before serving in the Obama administration as a voter protection attorney. Griswold helped bring back millions of dollars in flood relief in 2013 in the JENA GRISWOLD Director of the Governors D.C. office. We appreciate Griswold’s diagnosis of what currently ails the state’s election system, and are excited about the bevy of common-sense solutions she’s proposed to increase voter registration, boost voter turnout, continue Colorado’s cyber-security efforts and ensure our election systems are reliable. Griswold recognizes that state and federal laws have brought billions of dollars in dark money into state and local elections. She proposes closing campaign finance loopholes that will increase transparency, including auditing campaign financing so voters can see which funding sources for candidates before they vote. She also recognizes the need to work with the state legislature to reduce harassment of
State Treasurer Brian Watson (R) ❑ Dave Young (D) ❑ Gerald K. Kilpatrick (ACP)
The State Treasurer manages $6.5 billion in 750 state funds, has a seat on the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) Board of Trustees, and oversees the Great Colorado Payback, which restores lost monetary or property assets to their rightful owners. Of those responsibilities, no issue is more pressing than the PERA obligation, and the next Treasurer will need to have clear objectives in resolving the state retirement fund’s $32 billion in unfunded liabiliBRIAN WATSON ties. Republic Brain Watson is our choice for Treasurer because he has the most thorough plan to address the shortfall. A commercial real estate investor, Watson plans to take a nonpartisan, apolitical perspective to the office, and he says his first act as Treasurer will be to sit down with each member of the PERA board to determine what’s been lacking in the fund’s management, what opportunities exist, and overall, build communication. Watson supported Senate Bill 200 last spring, which was the largest bipartisan PERA reform bill of the decade and made modest changes to start to address the funding gap. Watson’s opponent, state Representative Dave Young (D-Greeley) did not support this measure. Though we appreciate Young’s commitment to divest state funds from certain industries (such as gun manufacturing) and his commitment to working with the marijuana industry to alleviate banking concerns, we agree with Watson that addressing PERA will require tough decisions and strategies
we trust him to implement. Those strategies include raising the retirement age for pubic employees just entering the system, amending the benefits, and looking realistically at the historic rate of return and projections of state investments. Watson notes that the PERA fund lost 11 percent of its value just from the economic crash in 2008, and we believe his initial diagnosis of the issues that led to PERA’s deficit will serve as a solid foundation on which to build an effective strategy to restore it. Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) ❑ George Brauchler (R) ❑ William F. Robinson III (L)
Phil Weiser is the former Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, served as a senior advisor and deputy assistant attorney general in the Obama administration, and was a clerk for Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Byron White. We endorse him for the state Attorney General position, which will serve an outsized role in regulating Colorado’s oil and gas industry, protecting health PHIL WEISER care rights for residents, ending the opioid epidemic, and standing up for immigrant families, among many other important issues that have arisen in the current political climate. Weiser disagrees with current Attorney General Cynthia Coffman’s decision to appeal the Martinez case, in which the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has an obligation to protect public health and the environment even to the detriment of oil and gas extraction. He also laments Coffman’s decision to sue Boulder County over its moratorium on accepting oil and gas permits. Weiser said, if elected, he’ll create a special unit within the department to work directly with municipalities and counties to create oil and gas regulations that work for their communities. Weiser would likely be what his opponent, George Brauchler, currently the District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District (Arapahoe, Douglas and other counties), calls an “activist” Attorney General. We’re OK with that. Weiser says he’d be willing to sue the federal government to protect the Affordable Care Act, keep pharmaceutical companies from perpetuating the opioid epidemic, and ensure consumer rights. Weiser says he’ll defend communities that refuse to follow Department of Homeland Security directives regardSee VOTE Page 12
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ing immigration. Weiser would also work to revise our criminal justice system, aiming to rehabilitate those in our state’s prison system, and provide alternative sentencing for those dealing with substance abuse or mental health issues. Brauchler and his supporters have branded the Attorney General race as “prosecutor (Brauchler) versus professor (Weiser).” In fact, although Brauchler has an impressive history of service and criminal justice work, we prefer Weiser’s thoughtful approach to a job that requires much more nuance than that tagline suggests. For a bold Attorney General that’ll stand up for what the majority of Boulder County values, vote for Weiser. State Board of Education Member – Congressional District 2 ❑ Johnny Barrett (R) Angelika Schroeder (D)
Perhaps as early as 2014, media outlets began to report on a sort of conservative school board revolution, where Republicans worked to stack boards with radical conservatives who would help rewrite textbooks and educational standards. In 2017, Democrats gained control of the Colorado State Board of Education for the first time in 50 years, and one of the ANGELIKA SCHROEDER Board’s first orders of business was to appoint Angelika Schroeder as chair. With nearly 10 years of experience on the State Board, we support Schroeder as she seeks re-election for another sixyear term. Schroeder recently worked to make revisions to Colorado’s content standards, helping to make significant changes to state science standards and bring Colorado students up to the level expected in other states. Schroeder has a strong understanding of the “levers” the State Board can pull to make positive impacts on education, particularly with a focus on teacher recruitment, retention and evaluation. She hopes to continue work that will simplify the licensure process without compromising rigor. She’s a proponent for concurrent credit programs that allow high schoolers the option of learning about trade vocations like plumbing and mechanics, as well as earning credits that can apply to a fouryear institution. Schroeder supports school choice, but not school vouchers. She has been vocal in her opposition to “hardening” schools by arming teachers.
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State Board of Education Member – Congressional District 4 Tim Krug (D) ❑ Debora L. Scheffel (R)
Benson, for the record, was an oil man with no experience in education. He was also the only candidate the Board considered. We need a Board of Regents that prioritizes academic achievement over political agendas, and that casts a reasonably wide net in its search for a qualified candidate for CU’s new president. We believe Lesley Smith has the skills and values to help with that. Lesley spent 30 years as a scientist and educator at CU, and served on the Boulder Valley School Board for eight years. She is currently on the Colorado Science Education Network steering committee. Smith champions online degree programs through the CU system so that people living in rural areas or who have full-time jobs and families can obtain degrees from CU schools without having to come to campus. She supports a CU system wide guaranteed tuition, like the one implemented on the Boulder campus, that locks students into a tuition rate without increases across their college career. She hopes to bring student and faculty pay up to rates equivalent to other PAC 12 schools, an issue she believes is making it difficult for the CU system to attract staff and students.
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Tim Krug is an experienced educator with three young children, and we believe he’s the best choice for the District 4 seat on the State Board of Education. Krug taught English in the Japanese public school system for a number of years before becoming the owner and CEO of a chain of English language schools. One of his elementary-aged sons has autism, and Krug believes that his place on the Board would equate to much-needed representation for Colorado’s special needs students. Krug believes that the teacher shortage in Colorado is exacerbated by TIM KRUG tying standardized test performance to teacher evaluation, “making the profession less desirable.” Krug sits on the board of a testing company owned by his parents, and says that the tests “are designed to measure individual student achievement and identify gaps in curriculum — not to be an evaluation tool.” Krug calls the “debate” around charter schools “nuanced,” and believes that independent, locally owned charter schools are better than chain schools based in other states. He would like to help alleviate the teacher shortage in rural Colorado by exploring alternative licensure programs. These types of programs, he says, would allow those living in rural areas to pursue a career in education without having a degree in education. Regent of the University of Colorado – At Large Lesley Smith (D) ❑ Ken Montera (R) ❑ Christopher E. Otwell (Unity) ❑ James K. Treibert (L)
The CU Board of Regents has been on a sort of conservative crusade over the last several years, calling for measurements of the political climate on campus, creation of programs centered on conservative thought and hiring faculty to teach conservative thought. Board Chair Sue Sharkey even made the unsavory and uncultivated comparison between being conservative on campus and being gay. LESLEY SMITH Now, with CU President Bruce Benson set to retire next year, the Board of Regents will be tasked with finding his successor.
State Senator – District 16 Tammy Story (D) ❑ Tim Neville (R) ❑ James Gilman (L)
During his time at the Capitol, Republican Tim Neville has been a conservative stalwart, sponsoring antiLGBTQ, anti-sanctuary and pro-gun rights legislation, including a measure that would allow concealed carry of firearms without a permit. He’s sought to suspend environmental regulations, believes in school choice and vouchers, and is staunchly pro-life. Boulder TAMMY STORY Weekly also reported earlier this year that data acquired by Cambridge Analytica was used to secure his win in 2014, unseating the Democratic incumbent, and he’s supported by the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity. That’s why we’re endorsing Democrat Tammy Story for State Senator in District 16. Prior to running for office, she helped lead the 2015 effort to recall conservative Jefferson County School Board members and promises to fight for the Colorado middle class if elected. She also refused to talk about any of the statewide ballot issues, while touting her grassroots campaign, which includes outspending
Neville and receiving $20,000 from the Democratic Party. Although we wish Story could have been more concrete in her plans to fund education and transportation (she does support public/private partnerships for transportation infrastructure), she’s running in a key district and could help flip the Senate blue. State Representative – District 10 ❑ Murl S. Hendrickson IV (R) Edie Hooton (D)
Edie Hooten was first elected to the State House for District 10 in 2016. During those two years she’s been a strong proponent of progressive cannabis regulation, hoping to further diminish “the reefer madness mentality” she feels still persists at the Capitol. She’s also worked on issues related to women and child welfare, public health and health care accessibility, and elections. EDIE HOOTON She’s a staunch supporter of local control and finds the way the oil and gas industry is continually exempt from local zoning processes both “egregious and infuriating.” She was a co-sponsor of Rep. Mike Foote’s multiple bills to stop the spread of fracking in the state and supports Proposition 112, while also calling for 100 percent renewable energy use by 2030. She also supports both Amendment 73 and Proposition 110, which would increase funding for education and transportation respectively. She supports increased gun control legislation, justice for the LGBTQ community and wants to end the use of the death penalty and solitary confinement in the criminal justice system. State Representative – District 11 Jonathan Singer (D) ❑ Brian O Donahue (R)
Boulder Weekly once again endorses Rep. Jonathan Singer for House District 11, just like we have every election since 2012. With a background in social work, Singer has dedicated his time at the Capitol advocating for mental health services, child welfare, early childhood education, affordable child care, health care and immigrant rights. He wants to continue to work in these areas as well as gun violence prevention, preparing our state for an increasingly automated society and local control issues. He also wants to rid the COGCC JONATHAN SINGER of conflicts of interests and supports taxing the oil and gas industry at the local level. He has Boulder Weekly
fought tirelessly on issues relating to oil and gas development and is a strong supporter of Proposition 112 and shakes his head at other members of the Democratic Party who don’t support it. We enthusiastically support Rep. Singer in his last term as state representative for District 11. State Representative – District 12 Sonya Jaquez Lewis (D) ❑ Theresa Stets – Unaffiliated
While we appreciate unaffiliated Theresa Stets’ progressive stance on labor and environmental issues, as well as her activist background, we’re endorsing Sonya Jaquez Lewis for House District 12. As a pharmacist and former member of the Boulder County Board of Health, Lewis is particularly concerned about the public health impacts of climate change and fracking, and she collected petition signatures for Proposition 112. She’s also personally fighting the proposed Crestone multi-well production pad that would reside 500 feet from her home, after being forced SONYA JAQUEZ LEWIS pooled. She wants to propose a Medicare for All bill if elected, as well as further drug pricing transparency. She supports increased mental health services, including more bilingual providers, and is an advocate for both immigrants and LGBTQ rights, including a ban on conversion therapy and the ability for transgender individuals to change their birth certificates. Lewis does have strong personal ties to establishment Dems, including with gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis, but we see her views as independent from the status quo. State Representative – District 13 ❑ Kevin Sipple (R) KC Becker (D)
Our endorsement in this race goes to incumbant Rep. KC Becker. As house majority leader, she led the investigation that eventually led to the expulsion of Rep. Steve Lebsock for sexual harrassment and wants to continue her work in reforming the harrassment policies and procedures at the Capitol. Moving forward, she says the main issues facing the state are economic security, criminal justice and health care reform and the environKC BECKER ment. In terms of the environment, she wants to put the “oil and gas wars to bed” and supports Proposition 112. She also acknowledges the limits of TABOR, while questioning it’s constitutionality, when it comes Boulder Weekly
to funding transportation and education, but supports efforts to fund these two key areas. State Representative – District 33 ❑ Eric Rutherford (R) Matt Gray (D) ❑ Kim Tavendale (L) ❑ Jay Geyer (I)
race to support Proposition 112. He’s a firm believer in education equity, particularly for minority students, supports early childhood education and trade schools. He does want to increase funding for teacher pay, but not necessarily school improvements. For transportation, he wants to move toward technological solutions like autonomous vehicles and electric cars to get us away from fossil-fuel based options. He has an atypical temperament, and we’re not sure about his ability to play well with others, but if Proposition 112 is your litmus test, he’s your guy.
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With four candidates, this race is perhaps the most interesting in Boulder County. Representing Broomfield, Superior and Erie, education and transportation are of utmost importance as well as of course oil and gas development. Two years ago, we didn’t endorse in this race because then-first-time Democratic candidate Matt Gray didn’t seem to be aware of the significance of oil and gas development in the district (or the state). He surprised us. While he doesn’t support Proposition 112 because it doesn’t allow communities to opt-out of the mandatory 2,500-foot setbacks, while serving in the Capitol he was successful at passing a bill that better protects the rights of property owners facing forced-pooling, and voted in favor of all legislation (though none of MATT GRAY it became law) related to further regulating the oil and gas industry. Likewise, he voted pretty much along party lines on all other proposed legislation, while advocating for universal paid medical and family leave and TABOR reform to increase funding to both education and transportation, especially to ensure regional equity. Kim Tavendale also ran two years ago, sticking to the basics of the Libertarian Party. Independent Jay Geyer provides a unique centrist’s approach, only recently leaving the Republican Party and running with a slate of independent candidates around the state. He’s more concerned about monied interests gaining an outsized role in our politics and the process of government rather than checking all the boxes on particular issues, and promotes the fact that he won’t have to answer to party leadership if elected. However, when it comes to meeting our energy needs, he wants to further incentivize renewable energy but does not support Proposition 112. He works at the University of Colorado and is a strong supporter of funding education. Eric Rutherford is a bit of an anomaly within the Republican Party. He believes in individual responsibility, doesn’t want to see tax increases and supports TABOR in theory. At the same time, he’s a staunch environmentalist and is the only candidate in this
District Attorney 20th Judicial District Michael Dougherty (D)
Michael Dougherty is running unopposed. Regional Transportation District Director – District O Lynn Guissinger
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County Commissioner – District 3 Gary Cooper (R) Cliff Willmeng – Green Party (G) Matt Jones (D)
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Boulder County has several issues that are of growing importance over the next several years, which makes the race to replace term-limited Cindy Domenico for District 3 hotly contested. First and foremost, encroaching oil and gas development, particularly in eastern Boulder County, is concerning, and the Commissioners are going to have to continue to fight extractive industries and the COGCC, maybe even MATT JONES more fiercely, to prevent drilling. Commissioners will also have to collaborate with city jurisdictions on other issues related to population growth, such as affordable housing, countywide homelessness services and transportation. Lastly, the preservation and management of open space, including agricultural practices, will continue to be an issue in the years ahead. Both Matt Jones, Democratic Party, and Cliff Willmeng, Green Party, understand the dire consequences of oil and gas development, but differ somewhat in their approach to fighting it. Willmeng is a long-time labor activist who became an environmental activist since moving to Boulder County in 2012. He advocates for a countywide Climate Bill of Rights, wants to prohibit all fracking in the county by taking the
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act to court in an attempt to fight the 2016 state Supreme Court decision preventing jurisdictions from banning the practice. He is also against other large projects he sees as environmentally dangerous, such as the Martin Marietta gravel mine in Lyons and the proposed Gross Reservoir expansion. He is sure to continue his activist activities as an elected official. Jones, as state senator, has been an outspoken advocate of local control and fought against oil and gas lobbyists at the state Capitol. He ran 20 bills seeking to prevent oil and gas development since he took office in 2010, although he wasn’t very successful in getting them to pass. He regularly attends meetings of the COGCC, which he calls a “permit mill for the industry,” and was one of the first elected officials to come out in support of Proposition 112 (although he has endorsed other Democratic candidates who oppose it.) He knows the limitations of the law, but believes we need to be fighting the industry in every available space. He believes we need to get to 100 percent renewable energy as soon as possible and expanded the PACE program statewide as well as helped push through higher wind and solar requirements for electric utilities. He is yet undecided about both the Gross Dam expansion and Lyons mine, but has concerns about both projects. On social issues, Willmeng advocates for countywide paid family and medical leave, an increased living wage to address issues of affordable housing and homelessness, and a revamp of labor laws. He also advocates for a public bank to get rid of debt, fund transportation and other essential services, and also supports a move away from commodity farming through regenerative agriculture on open space land. Jones wants to focus on updating transportation throughout the county by replicating the bus service currently available on U.S. Highway 36 from Denver into Longmont and the rest of East County. He thinks countywide mental health and homelessness services are moving in the right direction, while also promising to make Boulder County a firewall against state and federal policies that seek to decrease health care. He wants to leverage state and federal dollars to provide attainable housing for Boulder County residents, provide countywide paid family leave and also supports regenerative agriculture on open space, while acknowledging the need to defend our public lands in light of federal policies. See VOTE Page 14
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Willmeng’s passion and determination is admirable, and he would no doubt carry that on as Commissioner. But Jones’ expertise in state law and persistence in fighting the industry at every turn would be a valuable asset to county government. You can’t really go wrong voting for either candidate, but our endorsement goes to Matt Jones. County Clerk and Recorder Molly Fitzpatrick (D)
Molly Fitzpatrick is running unopposed. County Treasurer Paul Weissmann (D)
Paul Weissmann is running unopposed. County Assessor Cynthia Braddock (D)
Cynthia Braddock is running unopposed. County Sherriff Joseph K Pelle (D) ❑ John Bedrick (R)
Boulder Weekly believes incumbent candidate Sheriff Joe Pelle should serve another term, which would be his fifth consecutive, adding another four years to his now 16-year tenure as Boulder County Sheriff. Last year Boulder County residents voted to extend the Sheriff ’s term limits, once again, from four four-year terms to five four-year terms. This vote was, in part, tied to Pelle’s commendable record as JOSEPH K PELLE Boulder County Sheriff since January 2003. Thus, his name, again, appears on the ballot, and he’s eager to continue serving the people of Boulder County. During his time as Sheriff so far, Pelle has been continually working to reduce overcrowding at the County jail, advocating for better mental health services, and he righteously came out against a law requiring law enforcement to report certain people to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). If re-elected, Pelle plans to continue garnering support for an alternative sentencing facility on the County jail’s campus — as detailed in Ballot Issue 1A — and believes it’s the best tactic to alleviate overcrowding in the current jail, as well as increase programming availability for substance abuse and mental health care, and, most importantly, reduce recidivism. If Ballot Issue 1A does not pass, Pelle is still committed to resolving the suboptimal living conditions in the County jail. 14 October 11, 2018
Pelle does not plan to pursue the placement of rifles and rifle safes in the St. Vrain School District, which he advocated for earlier this year, as he respectfully understands the majority of the community doesn’t support such a safety tactic. Instead, he plans to focus school safety measures on building relationships between school resource offices and students, as well as bolstering the “Safe to Tell” program, which gives students an anonymous way to alert law enforcement officers when anyone is in need of help. Pelle is a firm believer that immigration laws are not his responsibility. Historically he has resisted cooperating with ICE, as he believes in order to best keep the community safe, everyone should feel safe reporting misconduct, regardless of immigration status. “If anyone is scared to call they are undermining our ability to keep our community safe,” he said in our interview.
vice events. During his first term as Mayor, he worked successfully with the Board of Trustees to attract new businesses and promote the development of recreation and community amenities. In 2014, he spearheaded the now-annual State of Superior, Manager & Mayor event, which has grown each year. If re-elected he plans to sharpen his focus on designing more community spaces, including public and year-round access to swimming pools. Even before stepping into political office, Folsom started building a positive relationship with the school communities in Superior. For the past nine years, he’s served as a crossing guard volunteer and coordinator, and plans to continue inviting all second graders for tours of Town Hall, his School Lunch with the Mayor program, and coordinating field trips with the Youth Leadership Council, if he is re-elected. Folsom has been endorsed by the mayors of Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette and Longmont, in addition to receiving support from Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle.
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Lee Stadele is running unopposed. County Coroner ❑ Emma R. Hall (D)
Emma R. Hall is running unopposed. Town of Superior – Mayor ❑ Gladys M. Forshee Clint Folsom ❑ Jack Chang
Boulder Weekly was able to speak with two of the three candidates for Superior’s mayoral race. Jack Chang had not responded by the time Vote Guide went to press on Wednesday afternoon. Clint Folsom is Superior’s incumbent mayoral candidate. Among the three candidates, we believe Folsom will best serve the Town of Superior, as his knowledge of the town’s issues and CLINT FOLSOM inner-workings is extensive, his relationship with the Board of Trustees is healthy, and the accomplishments of his first term have laid a strong foundation for continued success. For the past four years, he has been serving the Town of Superior, where he has lived for more than two decades. Prior to serving as mayor, Folsom served on the town’s Planning Commission starting in 2008, and spent 13 years as a state-certified peace officer, on-call to help with extra patrol, surveillance, forest fires, floods, crime security, accidents and community ser-
Town of Superior – Trustee The three candidates with the highest number of votes will each serve a four-year team. (Vote for not more than three.) Ken Lish ❑ Dalton Valette Theresa A. Clark ❑ Neal S. Shah ❑ Anthony L. Stewart Laura Skladzinski
Frankly, the candidates for Superior’s Board of Trustees all roughly want the same thing: for development in Superior to move at a reasonable pace while bringing in the right mix of businesses and maintaining its family-friendly charm. Most candidates THERESA CLARK spoke of increasing communication channels between elected officials and Superior residents, and all expressed a desire for Superior to be a town where residents can find everything they need, and not just be a bedroom community. We’ve chosen these candidates based on a number of factors, including their civic engagement, their knowledge of Superior and their commitment to managing the town’s imminent growth. Teresa Clark has been involved in helping Superior’s community in numerous ways over the past decade, including her role as a ski patrol volunteer, a Brownie troop leader, and the
human on a pet therapy team; she prioritizes environmental values and advo cates for more extensive public transportation options as town growth continues. Ken Lish is currently the Chair of Superior’s open space adviKEN LISH sory committee, and grew up in Boulder County; as a certified personal accountant and fraud examiner, he brings acute knowledge of economy efficiency and will continue to advocate for the preservation and maintenance of open space. Laura Skladzinski is known throughout Superior for the notes she publishes on LAURA SKLADZINSKI her personal website following every Board meeting; as a management and consumer marketing consultant, she envisions streamlining most aspects of the Board’s work. n JUDGE RETENTION Boulder County ballots will include several statewide and local judge retention questions. For our endorsements we used the Blue Book text, authored by the Colorado Office of Judicial Performance Evaluation (COJPE), as well as our own research into the judges’ previous evaluations and written opinions. On the ballot, the questions read: Shall Judge [name] of the Court [name] be retained in office? Colorado Supreme Court Justice Justice Richard L. Gabriel: Retain
Justice Richard Gabriel was sworn in as a member of the Colorado Supreme Court in September 2015. The COJPE Commission notes that Gabriel issues clear, thoughtful and well-reasoned opinions that adequately explain the basis of Supreme Court decisions. We recommend Gabriel for retention, however, we disagreed with his majority opinion to strike down Longmont’s voter-approved fracking ban in 2016. Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Judge John Daniel Dailey: Retain
Judge John Dailey has served on the Colorado Court of Appeals since 2000. His legal career began in 1978 with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Since then, he has served on the Colorado Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules of Appellate Procedure and currently serves as the chairperson of the state Supreme Court’s advisory committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure and as vice chair of the state Supreme Court’s advisory Boulder Weekly
Judge Freyre was appointed to the Colorado Court of Appeals in September 2015. During her tenure as a public defender in the Arapahoe County Trial Office starting in 1990, Freyre eventually served as Deputy State Public Defender, Appellate Division. She regularly engages in several community-based endeavors, including Mock Congressional Hearings at middle schools and a diversity internship program. With a history of timely, well-organized and concise opinions, we recommend Judge Freyre be retained. Judge Elizabeth L. Harris: Retain
Judge Harris joined the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2015. The COJPE writes that Harris “unnecessarily rexamines facts and lower courts’ reasoning, which reduces her efficiency and which may create a perception that she is unfair,” and also cites her lack of timeliness as an issue, although she has shown substantial improvement and “is taking concrete steps to address these areas of concern.” Harris was given high marks for strong writing skills, diligence and a commitment to fairness. We recommend a vote in favor of retaining Judge Harris, as 90 percent of judges surveyed reported she met judicial performance standards. Judge David J. Richman: Retain
David Richman was sworn in as a judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals in June 2008. The COJPE reports that Judge Richman is fair and impartial toward both sides during a case and is well prepared for oral arguments, though notes he can be occasionally gruff with attorneys. Of the 37 attorneys surveyed, however, 88 percent believe Richman does meet performance standards, and commend his seasoned, well-respected contributions to the Court of Appeals. We recommend Richman for retention. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE – 20TH Judicial District Judge Thomas Francis Mulvahill: Retain
Thomas Mulvahill was appointed as a District Court Judge in the 20th Boulder Weekly
Judge Norma A. Sierra: Retain
Judge Sierra was sworn in as a 20th Judicial District Court Judge in August 2015. Previously, she served as District Court Magistrate and as County Court Judge. The COJPE Commission found Sierra excels at managing the courtroom in a dignified and professional manner, and is “generally timely, clear and thorough.” When she moved from County Court to District Court, Sierra rose to the occasion and took it upon herself to learn more about civil law. Based on the Commission’s analysis, we recommend Judge Sierra for retention. County Court Judge – Boulder Judge David Archuleta: Retain
David Archuleta was appointed to the Boulder County Courts in June 1999. In his near-20 years of service, Archuleta has maintained high integrity and good communication skills; he has also continued to improve in areas of administrative performance and judicial temperament, according to the COJPE Commission. He serves as a faculty member at the Colorado Institute for Excellence in Judicial Education, and we recommend Archuleta for retention. Judge Elizabeth House Moulton Brodsky: Retain
Judge Brodsky was appointed to the Boulder County Court bench in 2015, following her service as a Domestic Relations Magistrate. From the COJPE’s observance and analysis of Brodsky’s actions in court and samples of her rulings, the Commission determined she is fair and unbiased. She treats all participants in the courtroom with respect, though the Commission noted her demeanor might lean toward compassion and empathy. Overall, the Commission determined she meets or exceeds all performance standards, and, as such, we recommend her for retention.
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Judicial District in September 2009. After each member of the COJPE Commission evaluated Judge Mulvahill’s performance in the courtroom, in addition to his rulings and orders, the Commission reports he demonstrates great leadership qualities, approachability, fairness, efficiency and impressive legal expertise; additionally he has proven his control over difficult proceedings by staying calm and professional. We recommend Thomas Mulvahill for retention.
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committee on Model Criminal Jury Instructions. Of attorneys completing the COJPE survey, 79 percent said Dailey met judicial performance standards and of judges completing the survey, 100 percent reported he met such standards. We recommend Judge Dailey be retained.
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n STATE MEASURES Colorado often sees a long list of statewide issues to vote on each election, which can be quite overwhelming. However, it’s also a key function of our democracy: we the people have a large say in what makes it into both our constitution and state statutes through the amendment and initiative process. It’s given us both the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana. Some of the following amendments are proposed by citizens, others were referred by the legislature, but ultimately it’s the voters who decide what becomes law. Thanks to 2016’s Amendment 71, constitutional amendments require 55 percent majority to pass, while statutory amendments only a simple majority. Statutory amendments are more malleable to revision to accommodate for changing circumstances, but they also can be revised by the legislature after passing, although most candidates we’ve talked to say they would respect the wishes of the people and, if passed, leave statutory amendments as they are. Amendment V: Lower age qualification for state general assembly members
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A proposed constitutional amendment, this measure suggests lowering the age requirement to serve in the state legislature from the current limit of 25 to 21. Currently, Colorado is only one of seven states that has age requirements for the state legislature at 25 or older. While opponents say age 25 balances youth with the experience needed to be an effective lawmaker, we think that if 21-year-olds are responsible enough to make key health care and financial choices for themselves, purchase alcohol, marijuana and cigarettes, and be drafted into the military, they should also be allowed to serve their community as a state legislator. We say vote yes on Amendment V. Amendment W: Change ballot format for judicial retention questions
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This issue proposes to change the ballot format for judicial retention elections, which is about as frivolous as it sounds. Currently, all Colorado ballots repeat the same language for the retention of each individual state Supreme Court justice and judge, but this would change retention ballots to only ask about retention once, followed by a list all justices and judges. The idea is to simplify the ballot and encourage voter participation. We support this measure. 16 October 11, 2018
Amendment X: Change hemp definition from constitutional to statutory definition
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Currently, Colorado is the nation’s leading producer of industrial hemp, which is used to make textiles, paper, personal care products, food and supplements, as well as CBD products. Referred to the ballot by the state legislature, this constitutional amendment would remove the industrial hemp definition from the state constitution, deferring instead to the definition according to federal law or state statute, in anticipation of Congress deregulating the cultivation of the crop at the federal level. As a cannabis variety, hemp is currently classified as a controlled substance in federal law, but that’s expected to change in the near future. If the federal law changes in regards to industrial hemp, then Colorado could be at a disadvantage compared to other states in the growing industrial hemp market if we have a limited definition in the state constitution. We support Amendment X. Amendment Y: Change the way congressional districts are drawn in Colorado
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Amendment Z: Change the way state senate and state house of representatives districts are drawn in Colorado
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We’re writing about these two issues together, as they are both about redistricting in the hopes of preventing gerrymandering. Amendment Y is about congressional districts, whereas Amendment Z concerns state senate and state house districts. In order to account for population changes, district boundary lines are redrawn following the U.S. Census every 10 years. As it currently sits, the ruling party gets to set the agenda for drawing the new maps, with Colorado lawmakers creating congressional maps, and appointing a commission to redraw legislative ones. However, three out of the last four redistricting cycles, a court has had to choose the maps because of deadlock, and Amendments Y and Z are a bipartisan effort, referred to the ballot by the legislature, to prevent such squabbles in the future. Under these constitutional amendments, the maps must also promote competitive districts as well as account for communities of interest, be they social, political, ethnic or geographic. The measures would create
12-member independent redistricting commissions, comprised of four unaffiliated voters along with four commissioners registered to each of the state’s two largest political parties. The maps would first be drawn up by nonpartisan legislative staff assigned to the commission, and then must be approved by eight of the 12 members on each commission, including two unaffiliated voters. Community members could weigh in on the maps to point out any problems in the ways counties or regions were split. The amendments would require at least three public hearings in each district to allow for community support. And they would be submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court for review, although the Court could only take action if they found abuse of discretion. All sounds pretty straightforward, right? And we thought so too, until we realized who’s behind the efforts. The measures were created by Fair Maps Colorado, a collaborative effort between pro-business, pro-industry front groups on both sides of the aisle, which includes a plethora of oil and gas industry lobbyists and conservative operatives, most notably Josh Penry from EIS Solutions, and others with ties to the Koch brothers. The largest individual donors are establishment Democrat and billionaire health care heiress Pat Stryker and CEO of dialysis giant DaVita Kent Thiry, who largely bankrolled the 2016 effort to allow Colorado independent voters to cast ballots in primary elections. Boulder Weekly has reported on several of these players in the past for their meddling in any effort to thwart oil and gas expansion in the state. Additionally, there is a question about the software and data sets that will be used to draw potential maps that will then be presented to the committee. As we’ve seen with the economic modeling software the oil and gas industry uses under the auspices of unbiased data research, it’s hard to know how much influence these moneyed interests will have in the redistricting process. Although leaving redistricting up to the courts, as has happened the last several cycles, is less than ideal, these financial ties cause us too much skepticism to endorse either Amendment Y or Z. Vote no. Amendment A: Amend Colorado constitution to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime
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It’s 2018, a time when it’s widely accepted that slavery and involuntary servitude are illegal. And yet, the
Colorado Constitution still says the two are prohibited “except as a punishment for crime.” Amendment A is a revamp of 2016’s failed Amendment T that sought to remove the outdated language from the constitution to say slavery is prohibited, period. Proponents argue that this is largely symbolic, but would not prevent prison work and community service programs from continuing. Opponents argue the change could create legal uncertainty for such programs, despite a resolution passed by lawmakers to the contrary. In hopes of creating a freer society, we endorse Amendment A. Vote yes. Amendment 73: Establish Income Tax Brackets and Raise Taxes for Education Initiative
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In the face of teacher shortages, stalled salaries, four-day school weeks and growing class sizes, Colorado is in desperate need of funding for education. Nationwide, Colorado is ranked 39th in per-pupil spending, which is a little over $2,000 short of the national average. Past ballot measures to increase taxes to pay for educational funding gaps have always failed. Still, Boulder Weekly endorsed those measures, and we endorse 73 because education is just that important. It would eliminate a TABOR provision requiring equal income taxes to increase funding for preschool through high school by instituting an income tax increase for Coloradans making $150,000 or more each year, as well as corporate income taxes. It also changes the assessment rates for property taxes levied by school districts to a fixed 7 percent for residential property, and decreases nonresidential property taxes to 24 percent. Amendment 73 is expected to generate $1.6 billion annually to go toward an education fund that would then be distributed by the legislature equitably throughout the state’s school districts, which will choose how to spend the funds in best service to their community. So much could be done with the funding: increase per-pupil funding, institute early childhood development and allday kindergarten programs statewide, and fund English-as-a-second-language programs to name just a few. Opponents argue that with a booming economy, and President Trump’s tax cuts that should increase Colorado income tax revenue, the state general fund is set to grow exponentially over the next several years, enough so that the tax increases are unnecessary. At the See VOTE Page 18
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KEVIN SIPPLE for COLORADO Common Sense for Colorado
Candidate for Representative – State House District 13 ABOUT KEVIN SIPPLE
Rule of Law: Government agencies and officials should follow the law, not their own preferences or laws they’ve made up. If the government won’t follow the Laws, why should anyone? Law Enforcement: I’m a strong supporter of Law Enforcement. Military: I’m a strong supporter of the Military and Veteran’s Services. Expertise with Regulatory Agencies, Including the EPA, FDA, CDPHE Also Agriculture: I’m a strong supporter of Agriculture. various County and City Agencies including Land Use, Zoning, and Building Environment: I support maintaining strong enforcement of our Departments. environmental regulations in order to keep our air, land, and water clean. I support maintaining the Endangered Species Act. PUBLIC SERVICE Constitution: I am a strong supporter of the protection and enforcement Volunteer in various Boulder County Agencies. 1992-2002 Placement of our Constitutions. These documents are a large part of the reason our Alternatives Commission, an appointed Board managing seven social services programs designed to keep families together, and Victim Advocate nation and state are such a good place to live. Energy: I support the development of all forms of energy, Wind, Solar, with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office 2001 to present, a program that provides assistance to victims of crimes, personal tragedies, and natural Hydro, and Fossil Fuels. disasters. Background in Business - One of founders of Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc., the bottled water company. Inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame in 2010, numerous other community awards.
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Twenty-six years ago when I entered public service as a volunteer, I discovered the great personal satisfaction that came from helping people. I consider the pursuit of public office in the State Legislature an opportunity to continue my public service.
Fiscal Responsibility: The Government should spend our tax dollars wisely. I support sensible spending, no new taxes, and not wasting our money on “showboat” projects.
Why Vote for Me: I believe that you, not the government, are in the best position to make decisions about what is right for you and your family. It’s not the role of government to dictate or regulate anyone’s personal choices. If elected, I pledge to do my best to keep alive free choice, fairness, and the American Way.
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same time, the measure would create a dedicated revenue source for education, and free up general fund revenues for other important sectors like transportation and health care. Vote yes on Amendment 75. Amendment 74: Compensation to Owners for Decreased Property Value Due to State Regulation Initiative
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Amendment 74 is a ridiculous item being put forward as a constitutional amendment designed to punish any level of government that might attempt to limit oil and gas operations in any way, even though it’s being put forward by the Colorado Farm Bureau, which has worked hand-in-hand with oil and gas interests for the last decade. How bad is this oil and gas industry Trojan Horse? It’s so bad that in this time of unprecedented partisan bickering, Republicans and Democrats actually agree that this amendment must not be passed. Both parties agree that its passage would cause countless lawsuits and waste billions of taxpayer dollars. The real idea is to make the limiting of oil and gas development anywhere a taking of minerals. If a town or county said you can’t drill in a certain location like a city park or someone’s back yard, then this 11-word-long amendment would claim that the governmental entity had to compensate the mineral owner for what he would have gotten had the well been drilled. Regardless of what you think about oil and gas and that scenario, this amendment is not limited to any particular issue and it doesn’t even have nuisance exceptions. So if your neighbor decides to start running a feedlot in his back yard or maybe builds a firing range next door to a school, any order to cease and desist such activity by a government would be considered a taking and the redneck with the gun range would have to be paid to stop shooting next to the school. In short, this idiotic and poorly thought out attempt to blackmail Colorado governments by the oil and gas industry and its allies is so broadly written that legal experts say it would completely rewrite the concept of property ownership with many unforeseen and negative ramifications. Vote no on 74, it’s about the only truly bipartisan thing you can do this election.
Amendment 75: Campaign Contribution Limits Initiative
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Yes No We all know that there’s just way too much money in politics these days. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which allows corporations and the ultra-wealthy to drop endless funds in an effort to elect their candidates, and the growing income disparity in our country has created a situation in which the wealthiest among us have an advantage in almost every sector of society, including politics. It’s a real problem in need of a real solution. While we are all about campaign finance reform, Amendment 75 is not the way to do it. As a proposed constitutional amendment, 75 doesn’t have anything in it to limit campaign contributions on a state or local level (federal law dictates campaign finance regulations for federal candidates). Rather, it increases current individual contribution limits for candidates facing a challenger who injects $1 million or more of their own money into their campaign. So if Candidate A finances his own campaign worth $1 million, Candidate B can now collect up to five times the current limit for individual donations (currently set at $1,150 for state offices, and $400 for legislators, board of education and district attorneys). Notably, the candidate who triggers the increase would also be allowed increased contributions from individuals. It would also allow these contribution increases if a single candidate in a race gives $1 million to a committee that supports or opposes any candidate in the same election, or coordinates third-party contributions of $1 million to any committee seeking to influence that particular race. It’s preposterous. We agree that wealthy candidates have an unfair advantage in elections because they can contribute vast sums of their personal wealth into their campaign. But the answer isn’t to flood elections with more money, it’s to further restrict campaign contributions. Vote no on Amendment 75. Proposition 109: “Fix Our Damn Roads” Transportation Bond Initiative
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No
Let’s face it: As the economy and population have grown, the roads throughout Colorado are in dire need of repair. According to TRIP, a transportation research nonprofit, 40 percent of major Colorado urban roads and highways are in poor or mediocre conBoulder Weekly
dition. Which is why we understand the sentiment behind Prop 109, also known as “Fix our damn roads.” Sponsored by the Libertarian Independence Institute, the proposal would require the state, through state statutes, to borrow up to $3.5 billion in 2019 to fund highway projects around the state without raising taxes or fees. Included in the measure is a specific list of 66 projects the funding would go to, all of which are road and bridge expansion projects. However, it could not be used for any alternative transportation projects like bike lanes or mass transit, and without a funding mechanism, requires the legislature to repay bonds with the general fund, which could mean cutting spending on other key areas, like education. We recommend a no vote on Prop 109. Proposition 110: “Let’s Go Colorado” Transportation Bond and Sales Tax Increase Initiative
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Unlike Prop 109, this measure proposes to amend the Colorado statutes and increase the current sales tax of 2.9 percent to 3.52 percent for the next 20 years, and allow the state to borrow up to $6 billion for transportation projects during the same timeframe. Also, unlike Prop 109, this measure does not have a clear list of projects it would fund. However, it would raise more money and use the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) list of priorities as a guideline. It also funds more than just roads: 45 percent of revenues would go toward repaying $6 billion in transportation bonds, limiting the total repayment amount to $9.4 billion, with interest. Another 40 percent would go toward local governments and municipalities to address local transportation needs, and the remaining 15 percent would fund multimodal projects including bike lanes, sidewalks and mass transit. Unfortunately, what Prop 110 is not is a solution to complete the Northwest Rail Line that was promised more than a decade ago. And we recognize the government doesn’t have the best track record in spending transportation dollars appropriately and the tax increase could adversely affect the most vulnerable among us, especially those who don’t use the roads, by increasing the sales tax. At the same time, we need funding to more efficiently move people throughout the county and the state. Vote yes on Proposition 110.
Proposition 111: Limits on Payday Loan Charges Initiative
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Small, easy-to-access and shortterm, payday loans can often be a lifeline for many surviving paycheck to paycheck, those living in low-income neighborhoods, as well as communities of color. At the same time, these borrowers can often be susceptible to exorbitant fees and interest rates allowed in the current regulatory structure. We won’t dive into the weeds on this one, as the annual percentage rate (APR) and current payday loan regulations are complicated, to say the least. But we will say that this statutory proposal would limit APR for payday loans to 36 percent and get rid of other fees payday lenders can charge. Currently, payday loan interest rates are set at 45 percent, but with associated fees the average can reach 129 percent, so according to the Blue Book, a $500 loan can wind up costing someone $793 under the current structure, while Prop 111 would make it max $553. There is inherent risk to payday lenders with these types of loans to be sure, given that they don’t require a credit check and the default rate in 2016 was 23 percent. For that reason, opponents believe Prop 111 could eliminate the payday lending business in Colorado. However, the current structure is described by those behind the measure as predatory, as it often traps people in a perpetual cycle of debt as they often have to continue to borrow more to pay off other payday loans. We agree. Vote yes on Prop 111.
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Proposition 112: Minimum Distance Requirements for New Oil, Gas, and Fracking Projects Initiative
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Well, this is it folks. If the polling is to be believed, the majority of Colorado voters have been waiting four years to vote on an oil and gas setback that will help to keep all of us safer from harmful toxins, explosions, environmental destruction, contaminated water and the loss of property values and quality of life. We have seen one deadly explosion after another, a few workers here, a family there. We have watched and read as one study after another has found that living anywhere near oil and gas operations increases our chances of cancer, causes severe respiratory problems, and increases the likelihood of birth defects and premature births. For three election cycles we have See VOTE Page 20
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seen hard-working volunteer signaturegatherers’ efforts to put an amendment like this one on the ballot thwarted by despicable political maneuvering, millions of dollars in misleading advertising and this year, the all-out harassment of people gathering signatures and people wanting to sign the petition. Some signature-gathering companies also claim they were paid off by oil industry supporters to leave the state, causing immeasurable harm to the grassroots effort to put this measure on the ballot. Yet despite all of this anti-democratic maneuvering on the part of the oil and gas industry, its front groups and supporters, we finally have the opportunity to vote yes and protect ourselves now and into the future. We could describe all the lies the industry has told and is still telling in its effort to scare you into voting against your own interest, but you can go back into our last five years worth of articles on that subject and read them all for yourself. The current industry commercials are particularly deceptive, claiming that 112 won’t improve job safety as it claims without ever mentioning oil and gas. Of course that’s true because 112 has nothing to do with job safety. It seems that when there is no true argument for why people should want contamination and explosions closer to their homes, the industry is left with only deception and exaggerated statistics cooked up by organizations it funds and therefore controls. As for the industry’s threat that a yes vote on 112 will destroy Colorado’s economy, that’s false, and we all know it, including the oil and gas industry. Want proof? There’s plenty of it. We have already experienced a full shutdown of the industry much more so than whatever slowdown might occur with the passage of 112. Three or four years ago, the price of oil dropped below $40 a barrel, meaning that drilling wells in Colorado lost lots of money. As a result of market forces the industry shut down, there were virtually no working drilling rigs in the state. So what happened? Did our economy collapse along with the industry as it claims will occur if you vote yes? Of course not. The oil and gas industry accounts for less than 1 percent of our state’s economy and doesn’t account for all that many jobs. Many of the workers are from out of state and only temporary. Colorado’s economy grew rapidly after the oil and gas industry virtually ceased operations a few years ago. So, we don’t need to
pay attention to false claims about jobs from the industry when the free market has already shown us that the impact of an oil and gas slowdown doesn’t even create a blip on our state’s economic radar. The oil industry’s claims of economic devastation are as silly as Trump telling his followers to believe him, not what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears. The claims of hundreds of thousands of lost jobs is based on an industry friendly computer modeling system called REMI, which is owned and funded by an oil and gas/Republican front group that works with and shares board members with all the other oil and gas industry front groups. As for the industry’s claim that 85 percent of the mineral interest in the state will be undevelopable when 112 passes, again this is industry-funded misleading data. The industry now has the technology to drill up to 3.5 miles horizontally. That means most mineral interests can still be developed, only doing so would cost more, making some wells less profitable. There’s a big difference between “can’t be developed” and “won’t be as profitable to develop.” But as we have seen now for years, this industry’s propensity for spreading false information is rivaled only by the current president. So rest easy and don’t worry about all those false industry claims of what could go wrong if 112 is passed. It’s critical that none of us miss this chance to preserve Colorado’s environment and the health, safety and quality of life of all our residents. If you vote for only one thing in this election cycle, make it a yes on Proposition 112. n LOCAL MEASURES County Ballot Issue 1A – (Alternative Sentencing Facility and Jail Modernization Countywide Sales and Use Tax Extension)
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The Boulder County Jail is notoriously overcrowded and outdated. At the same time, it has increasingly held people with mental health issues and/or experiencing homelessness for low-level crimes, as well as those transitioning out of the criminal justice system in work programs for far too long. Solving the issues out at the jail is complicated, and County Issue 1A is a tricky one for us at Boulder Weekly. This proposal would institute a 0.185 percent countywide sales and use tax for five years (until Dec. 31, 2024) Boulder Weekly
to fund an alternative sentencing facility at the Boulder County Jail, as well as other jail modernization projects. The measure would essentially continue the current sales and use tax that was approved by voters in 2014 for flood recovery that is set to expire at the end of this year. It is expected to generate $50 million over five years, with about $22 million dedicated to the alternative sentencing facility, and the remaining balance to remodel current facilities to better accommodate the increasing female population at the jail as well as fund additional administration space and a new intake space including shortterm holding facilities. The new facility would not be locked down (no cells, less security, etc.) and would be used for people in transitional work programs, rather than inmates that pose a community safety risk. The new facility will also include a dedicated office space for mental health workers, a staff that just recently increased by nine new hires, and allow for more individual attention and private therapeutic space. At the same time, the County is working on a mental health diversion program to get low-level offenders who have mental health issues out of the system and into treatment. According to Sheriff Joe Pelle, a bed in the new facility will cost the county about $40 a day, whereas a jail bed costs about $132. At the same time, the facility will free up about 80 beds in the current jail that will address overcrowding issues, he says, but the updates to the current facility do not include the creation of more jail beds. However, we know that opening up 80 jail beds will inevitably lead to more people moving through the jail and doesn’t necessarily address the root causes of overcrowding. We hesitate to endorse anything that perpetuates some of the deepest flaws of our current criminal justice system. At the same time, we know that alternative sentencing has been proven to decrease incarceration and recidivism rates, and the expanded mental health services is a critical area of need in helping the most vulnerable among us. Although we wish all of these funds would go toward addressing our community’s dire mental health and homelessness services needs, we think the proposed facility is a step in the right direction. Vote yes on County Issue 1A. City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2C – Imposition of Oil and Gas Pollution Tax
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Boulder, and 88 cents per thousand cubic feet of natural gas produced. The measure takes preemptive action to pay for the damage created if drilling is ever permitted in the City. We say yes to Issue 2C. City of Boulder Ballot Issue 2D – Authorize Retention of All SugarSweetened Beverages Tax Revenue
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One year into implementation, Boulder’s tax on sugary drinks managed to generate much more revenue than expected — about $1.4 million more. In accordance with TABOR, the City must now return this surplus to taxpayers — in this case, drink distributors, aka small businesses around town — or ask the voters if they can inject the extra money into the health programs established by the original ballot issue that set up the tax. We believe the money would be best invested back into the local businesses, so we say vote no on Issue 2D. City of Boulder Ballot Question 2E – Charter Amendments for Initiative, Referendum and Recall Processes
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Question 2E clarifies the current language in Boulder’s City Charter regarding the petition process. It sets standards for the city clerk’s role in examining petitions, establishes a timeline for when petitions/initiatives can be submitted, and, perhaps most importantly, it lowers the number of signatures required for petitions to at least 10 percent of the average number of registered voters in the city who voted in the last two municipal candidate elections. It also establishes the number of signatures necessary to initiate a recall at 20 percent. Question 2E should clean up any ambiguous language in the City Charter and give both voters and City staff better guidelines for handling petitions and recalls. We endorse a yes vote on 2E.
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City of Boulder Ballot Question 2F – Charter Amendment for Initiative Petition Signature Verification
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Question 2F mandates that the city clerk “ensure authenticity” of signatures on a petition by comparing them with election records of the Boulder County Clerk or the Secretary of State. Previously, the city clerk wasn’t required to do this. We say yes to Question 2F. See VOTE Page 23
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City of Boulder Ballot Question 2G – Charter Amendment Related to Electronic and Online Petitions
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We endorse a yes vote on Question 2G as it gives more people greater access to the civic process by allowing the use of electronic petitions. There are plenty of people in Boulder who can’t get out and about much, but still want to throw their support behind important issues. This is democracy for a digital age. While the City hasn’t specifically said how they plan to verify signatures, they have stated they would form a second working group to provide recommendations to Council on how to implement the new system. City of Boulder Ballot Question 2H – Charter Amendment Related to Advisory Commissions
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While we do have questions about why City Council wants to increase the size of the Housing Advisory Board from five to seven members (Roosevelt and court packing, anyone?), we support the measure’s mission to change the criteria for what constitutes a majority on boards of different sizes. And we couldn’t agree more with the measure’s goal to change references of “sex” to “gender identity.” Vote yes on 2H. City of Boulder Ballot Question 2I – Charter Amendment for Planning Department Budget Recommendations
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Question 2I asks voters whether they want to shorten the amount of time that the Planning Department has to submit its recommendations for public improvements from 60 days to 30 days. Why speed up the process and
lose valuable time that could be spent studying recommendations and making better informed decisions? We endorse a no vote on Question 2I. City of Lafayette Ballot Issue 2A – Oil and Gas Pollution Tax
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Lafayette is asking voters whether they want to implement an oil and gas tax on producers at a rate up to $6.90 per barrel of oil and up to 88 cents per thousand cubic feet of natural gas extracted within Lafayette city limits. This is the same rate at which Boulder is asking its voters to tax oil and gas producers, and, like Boulder’s measure, it would act as both a deterrent to companies looking to drill in city limits, and would also help to offset clean-up costs if drilling is ever permitted. We endorse a yes vote on Issue 2A. Town of Jamestown Ballot Question 2B
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The Jamestown Board of Trustees voted unanimously this summer to put on the ballot the question of whether the town should be required to publish in a newspaper all proceedings related to payments of bills and contracts. State law requires municipalities to report such transactions, unless its citizens vote to relinquish themselves from that requirement. If approved, those financial records would be available upon request during business hours at town hall. We agree with the Jamestown Board and think it makes sense. Vote yes. City of Longmont Ballot Issue 3A (Revenue bonds for funding the rehabilitation and improvement of city buildings.)
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If approved, the City of Longmont would take on about $16 million of
debt via a bond to improve three municipal buildings — the library, the Safety and Justice Center and the Civic Center. In 2014 and 2015, the City hired consultants to assess the integrity of these buildings, and the report indicated they’re nearing the end of their intended lifespans and could use some renovations. Generally, it’s cheaper to renovate buildings than build new ones, and no new taxes or tax increases are necessary to pay for these improvements. With interest, the total payback amount will not exceed $26.6 million. If approved, renovations could begin next year. We say yes. City of Longmont Ballot Issue 3B (Revenue bonds for funding fire station renovation or replacement.)
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If approved, the City of Longmont would take on about $9.5 million of debt via a bond to renovate or replace two fire stations. The City says the two fire stations in question are “no longer functional for the needs of the community or safe for first responders” — they’re not up to code, contain asbestos and cannot contain modern tools firefighters need. No new taxes or tax increases will be used to fund it. Approve it. City of Longmont Ballot Issue 3C (Revenue bonds for funding recreation improvements)
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If approved, the City of Longmont would take on about $6.8 million of debt via a bond to fund improvements to Centennial Pool, Ute Creek Golf Course, Twin Peaks Golf Course and Sunset Golf Course. No new taxes or tax increase will be used to pay off the bond. Centennial Pool needs the funds to accommodate a growing number of visitors — funding will allow them to
relieve lobby congestion, provide direct access to the pool, build four family changing rooms, and bring the shower and toilet facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The golf courses need updates to their irrigation systems — you may not play golf, but improving these systems will help prevent further damage, and further costs, to the City. We say approve it. Town of Erie Ballot Question 3D
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If approved, Erie would join other cities in Boulder County and elsewhere in Colorado to reserve the right to implement a citywide broadband internet system in the future. This measure does not authorize the Town to start building the system, it only opts them out of a bill that was passed in the state Senate that took away cities’ rights to implement their own broadband system. Absolutely approve this. Thompson R2-J School District Ballot Issue 5A
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The Thompson School District is asking voters for a $13.8 million mill levy override to pay for necessary operational improvements. The money would be used to maintain current class sizes, increase employee salary to attract quality teachers, update textbooks and materials and boost student security. The spending would be overseen by a citizens’ committee, and the district has been historically underfunded. Vote yes. Thompson R2-J School District Ballot Issue 5B
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bond (with total costs not to exceed $265.4 million after interest) to pay for school facility upgrades. The District needs to upgrade school security systems, extend the useful life of school buildings, construct and equip a new K-8 school and add on to Berthoud Elementary and Ivy Stockwell Elemenratry, and improve other schools and District buildings. Taxes will be raised to pay off the bond. It’s cheaper to upgrade than to rebuild, and so we say vote yes. Lefthand Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 6B – Gallagher Revenue Stabilization
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The Gallagher Amendment was passed in Colorado in 1982. Its intent is to keep the ratio between residential and commercial property tax revenues the same (45 percent for residential). As property values have risen in Colorado, the rate on residential property tax has fallen, and thus fire districts across the state have lost tax revenue, with future losses projected. Lefthand estimates it lost $620,000 in potential revenue last year alone, and expects to lose $892,000 next year. This would not be an increase on taxes, but would allow fire districts to retain the property tax revenue it would lose as a result of Gallagher Amendment leveling. Vote yes. Rocky Mountain Fire Protection District Issue 6A – Gallagher Revenue Stabilization
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The Gallagher Amendment was passed in Colorado in 1982. Its intent is to keep the ratio between residential and commercial property tax revenues the same (45 percent for residential). As property values have risen in Colorado, the rate on residential property tax has fallen to keep the total revenue proportional, and thus fire districts across the state have lost tax revenue, with future losses projected. This would not be an increase on taxes, but would allow fire districts to retain the property tax revenue it would lose as a result of Gallagher Amendment leveling in the future. Vote yes. Knollwood Metropolitan District Ballot Issue 6C – Bond Question
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million) to replace the water system, upgrade water treatment, acquire water rights and improve the streets as a result of water system improvements. Knollwood currently does not have access to city water. Some residents have lamented the City of Boulder’s attempt to annex it, while others have said it would give them access to reliable water. Since this affects a small community of residents, we say it’s up to them. Berthoud Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 7B
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The Gallagher Amendment was passed in Colorado in 1982. Its intent is to keep the ratio between residential and commercial property tax revenues the same (45 percent for residential). As property values have risen in Colorado, the rate on residential property tax has fallen to keep the total revenue proportional, and thus fire districts across the state have lost tax revenue, with future losses projected. This would not be an increase on taxes, but would allow fire districts to retain the property tax revenue it would lose as a result of Gallagher Amendment leveling in the future. Vote yes. Mountain View Fire Rescue District Ballot Issue 7J
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The Mountain View Fire Rescue District is requesting $6.5 million via 4.5 mills to repair and replace emergency vehicles, replace outdated communications equipment, construct three additional fire stations and add firefighters and EMTs, and repair existing fire stations. Vote yes. Urban Drainage and Flood Control District Ballot Issue 7G
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Due to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District (UDFCD), which covers several counties, including parts of Boulder County, has lost 44 percent of its funding — a deferment of $280 million — since 1992. The UDFCD partners with counties and cities to design and construct flood control and warning systems. The UDFCD is requesting a property tax increase (up to $1.97 on $100,000 annually) to do their necessary work. Vote yes.
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he American dream is a funny thing. Since our nation’s founding some 242 years ago, it has been a dream recognized and pursued by people, not only from here, but from all over the world. And why not? It has always represented the best chance for individuals, families and their future generations to have a better life. You could say the American dream has been, and still is, the global dream. The Irish came fleeing famine. The English and other European immigrants came escaping religious persecution and an unfair class system. Scandinavians made the journey for a chance to own and work their own land. Russians, Romanians and other Eastern Europeans came to live and die in our nation’s coal mines. Mexican workers — those from Mexico who migrated north as opposed to the millions of Latinos who lived in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California for centuries before the U.S. border crossed over them and their land was stolen — came to work the fields initially, and later to do many of the hard physical jobs that most U.S. citizens don’t want to do. And Asians came by the tens of thousands to work the gold fields and railroads, often as forced labor. Thomas Paine called our country “the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.” And believe it or not, the Republican Party platform of 1864 read, “Foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, resources, and increase of power to the nation ... should be fostered and encouraged.” I wish I could say that “in the old days” white immigrants were more welcome than immigrants of color, but while true, such a statement would leave a false impression. White immigrants are still more preferred, just ask President Trump about all those “shithole” countries from where brown people migrate as opposed to the more acceptable blonde immigrants from Scandinavia. Just compare the border patrol build up, or lack thereof, along the U.S./Canadian border to the mass militarization occurring along our Southern border with Mexico. Just look at the color of the skin in the countries Trump has placed on his no-immigration list. Show me a white woman who has had her child ripped from her arms as she entered this country. I think it’s safe to say that our immigration policies have always suffered from systemic racism, it’s just been more obvious in the last couple of years as racism has become the new merit badge for “real ’mericans.” That said, there have been many major migrations into the U.S. from our early days until now. They were often the result of wars, political or religious persecution, or natural disasters in various countries around the world. Other immigrants from places like India have come more recently to fill voids in the digital workforce. Together, all of these infusions of ethnicity, religion and class have made us who we are. They are the 28 October 11, 2018
very fiber of our greatness. Wouldn’t it be great if Trump supporters understood that their MAGA hats are actually a plea for more immigration not less. Don’t hold your breath on that one. So, let me ask you this: If you were born into abject poverty in a place where you bathed in a bucket and knew you would never have a chance to go to university or otherwise get the education that would allow you to rise above the squalor, would you just stay there and accept such a life as your destiny, if you knew you had another option? Think about it. If you understood coming to the U.S. would offer a life of opportunity for you and your
children, would you come? And if you were told that a person living in poverty like you could never legally immigrate because of a bureaucratic system that would take you several decades to navigate and even then with no guarantee you’d get in, would you simply give up, accept your station in life, condemning yourself and your children to live hungry and without dreams forever, or at least until you all died which would likely be at a very young age? I don’t think you would. I know I wouldn’t... and neither would Ingrid Encalada Latorre. Most of our regular readers are familiar with Ingrid Boulder Weekly
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and her story. We did a large profile of her and the many volunteers supporting her life in sanctuary back in April (see “Sanctuary 360,” April 19). Ingrid is currently taking shelter with her two sons — Bryant 10 and Anibal 3, both U.S. citizens — at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder (UUCB), where she has been in sanctuary since Dec. 16, 2017. After months contemplating whether or not she should enter sanctuary, she first sought refuge at the Mountain View Friends Society in Denver in November 2016 where she stayed for six months. She then left sanctuary after being granted a temporary stay of removal while the last appeal to her case was pending. But after a judge refused to reopen her case and her request for a pardon from Gov. Hickenlooper went unanswered, she had no choice but to return to sanctuary, first in a Fort Collins church for a few weeks before making the move to her current location at UUCB in Boulder. Ingrid has been a high-profile immigration activist since first taking public sanctuary, advocating for broad immigration reforms that could help not only her, but tens of thousands of other immigrants as well. She has, reluctantly, put herself in the spotlight to draw attention to what she believes is the systemic injustice of the U.S. immigration system. And as we have previously reported, she was one of
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Above: Bryant, 10, hides behind a sign that could easily be interpreted as a description of his family’s current living situation.
Left: A small playground is within the locked fence area of the church grounds, making it possible for Ingrid to play with her kids on a regular basis while remaining in sanctuary.
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Above: Ingrid wakes Anibal from a nap in the small room the family now calls home. She says this space is the one place she can go when she feels the need for privacy. But she acknowledges it’s a tight fit for a family of three and some nights four.
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the four Colorado women in sanctuary who spent five months helping to develop the People’s Resolution, a petition effort of common sense recommendations that could be implemented in Colorado and elsewhere to create a pathway to citizenship for countless immigrants now lacking proper legal status. Ingrid came to the U.S. alone as a 17-year-old in 2000 from Cusco, Peru where she had been raised largely by an aunt who had come to the U.S. before her. Ingrid was always smart and understood that education was the only way out of her dead-end existence in Peru. But she also understood that, if she stayed in Peru, she would never be able to attain a college degree. “Peru, where I’m from, there’s no progress. There’s no way to get ahead. You could work for years and years there and not be able to buy a house or a car or even just have a special meal once a month. Unless you are able to study in university and get a degree, there’s not really anything more than sustenance. There is no future, and I wanted to have a better education, to have a better life here in the United States and to have the American dream.” Ingrid understood the American dream was something that had to be earned. She was always a hard worker and never considered taking help from the government or even her family. After several years of liv30 October 11, 2018
Left: Ingrid’s partner Eliseo Juardo Fernandez visits the family in sanctuary after work most days and stays with them some nights. A Mexican national, he was picked up and held in detention towards the end of 2017 in what many people saw as retaliation against Ingrid for her decision to take sanctuary.
ing and working in the U.S., she found herself a single mother with a young son, Bryant. She wanted and needed a better job but to get one she knew she had to have a social security number. “I think people don’t understand how because there’s no path, there’s fewer options for you to sustain yourself. I felt obligated to use a social security number to work because I was young and I was healthy and I had hands and feet to go and support myself. I didn’t want to depend on my aunt or depend on the government or anybody else, I wanted to sustain myself. “ She also wanted a social security number for the college courses she was paying to take. “I wanted to study — the reason I came here was
because I wanted to study — and my dream is to get a better education. And I did pay for some semesters of college, but it’s so expensive when you don’t have a social security number and when you don’t have any status to have to be paying out-of-state and out of pocket.” In order to take care of her family and to try and better herself through education, Ingrid paid someone for a social security number. She did not know at the time the number belonged to someone else. She was simply told she could use it to work. In 2010 she was arrested and charged with using falsified documents. “A lot of people say I’m a thief because I stole that social security number. And I did purchase that social See INGRID Page 32
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Rule of Law: Government agencies and officials should follow the law, not their own preferences or laws they’ve made up. If the government won’t follow the Laws, why should anyone? Law Enforcement: I’m a strong supporter of Law Enforcement. Military: I’m a strong supporter of the Military and Veteran’s Services. Expertise with Regulatory Agencies, Including the EPA, FDA, CDPHE Also Agriculture: I’m a strong supporter of Agriculture. various County and City Agencies including Land Use, Zoning, and Building Environment: I support maintaining strong enforcement of our Departments. environmental regulations in order to keep our air, land, and water clean. I support maintaining the Endangered Species Act. PUBLIC SERVICE Constitution: I am a strong supporter of the protection and enforcement Volunteer in various Boulder County Agencies. 1992-2002 Placement of our Constitutions. These documents are a large part of the reason our Alternatives Commission, an appointed Board managing seven social services programs designed to keep families together, and Victim Advocate nation and state are such a good place to live. Energy: I support the development of all forms of energy, Wind, Solar, with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office 2001 to present, a program that provides assistance to victims of crimes, personal tragedies, and natural Hydro, and Fossil Fuels. disasters. Background in Business - One of founders of Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc., the bottled water company. Inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame in 2010, numerous other community awards.
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security number on the street, but at the time I didn’t know it belonged to someone. I paid for that with jail time, with fees that I had to pay back like $11,000 to the court system and to the IRS, and then I did probation and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on immigration lawyers. I more than paid for that impact. [And now] I’m facing this double jeopardy because I’m also expected to pay for that with deportation and that’s what I feel is unjust. That’s why I’m so committed to staying here and staying in the U.S., and I know that one day I will leave [this church] and leave this nightmare. In the sense that I know that this could be a years-long process for me to leave sanctuary, it is a nightmare. There are lots of positive things about being involved in sanctuary, but the fact is that it’s indefinite and I could be here for a long time. That part of it feels like a nightmare.” Ingrid, who is 33 and has now lived half of her life in the U.S., says to date she has spent more than $50,000 on fines and penalties and attorney’s fees in her effort to make right her use of the social security number she purchased and be allowed to stay in this country with her young children and her partner Eliseo Juardo Fernandez. All together, she has now spent nearly a year and a half in sanctuary in order to avoid deportation because of her felony conviction. Ingrid says she is very sorry for the problems she caused the woman whose social security number she purchased and used. If she had the chance to speak directly to the woman, Ingrid says she would ask her to, “‘Please touch your heart and to give me a second chance to ask for forgiveness and be able to talk.’ Because like her, I’m a mother, too. I know that she has suffered but I would also like to be able to fix things because I have already paid the system, I have already paid the IRS. I have paid with probation and now I am facing deportation. I have two children and I am a mother who is suffering and I would like you to give me another chance, to forgive me or if there is something I can solve or help pay you a refund, I do not know, but I would like you to give me the opportunity to express myself.” The $50,000 Ingrid has spent trying to stay in this country — she unsuccessfully attempted to appeal her 2010 conviction in both 2016 and 2017 — has been a difficult mountain to climb, but for this mom, it was being separated from Bryant for nearly two and half months while in jail that was the hardest. “When they arrested me for working with someone else’s papers, Bryant was Anibal’s age, he was two and a half, and I was a single mother at that time, so it 32 October 11, 2018
Ingrid says her stay in sanctuary this time around has been better because both of her sons, Bryant and Anibal, are living with her. One of the things they enjoy doing together is tending the garden at the church. The garden is on church property and within a locked fence making it part of the outdoor area Ingrid can access while still remaining in sanctuary.
was very difficult to be in jail and be away from him,” she says. “The more difficult was not being able to change his diapers, not being able to put on his pajamas, that he cried a lot and stopped eating. It was a stress being separated for two and a half months. One time he went to visit me and cried a lot because we were just talking through a glass and so I decided that he should no longer come to visit me because he could not calm down and it was two days that he was crying and asking for his mother and they did not have compassion to let me touch my baby.” This experience is one of the reasons Ingrid understands so well the current plight of parents who have had their children taken from them at the border and the reason why she is fighting so hard for immigrant’s rights in this country. As difficult as it is to be self-imprisoned in sanctuary, Ingrid says it is so much better than being separated from her children.
“[Being with my kids] is part of what allows me to be more positive this time around, because the first time I was in sanctuary Anibal was with me but Bryant stayed with my partner in our home during the week, so we were separated more and that was a lot harder. This time, now, he lives with me. Both he and Anibal live here weekround, and that makes it easier. And now I feel like my kids are more used to this strange way of living. Bryant often asks me about the volunteers and he spends a lot of time hanging out with them now. He seems more relaxed. He seems to be the same as he was at our home.” She’s glad that her children are doing so well and she is thankful to all the volunteers and the church for making it possible for her to remain in this country with her children. But Ingrid still has her fears. On the last day I spoke with her, she had just woken up from a nightmare after taking a nap beside Anibal. “I imagined that I was outside somewhere, and immigration came and they were like, ‘Now we have you, now we’ve got you,’ and I tried to run back to the church and say, ‘My child is in there,’ and they said, ‘No, no we have you and we’re not going to let you go back in.’ The fear is always, always there, and then I feel a little bit proud but also a little more afraid.” It’s also difficult for her when her mind forces her to imagine a scenario where she is deported. “I have to think about that because it’s not just me like it was when I came to the U.S., now it’s my two kids who are both U.S. citizens, and thinking about taking them back there, away from their country. I didn’t finish a degree, I don’t have a profession, I don’t have a way to start from zero there that would allow us to be near the same standard as we have been here.” She says it would be an impossible choice between being separated from her children or taking them to a country where they would likely live in poverty without the opportunity to ever pursue their own American dreams. Let’s hope that is a choice our country never forces this mother to make. Boulder Weekly
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hey are each unique, with nuanced journeys of hardship, trauma and, ultimately, resolve. They are also bound together by their similarities: Latinas, facing impossible odds in a complex immigration system that has, in many ways, left them behind. Above all else they are drawn together by their shared love of family, the sense of home it creates, and an unwillingness to let it go. All are undocumented and all know the day-in and day-out reality of claiming sanctuary, the inability to leave church grounds in an effort to remain close to the ones they hold most dear. These four women, Araceli Velasquez, Ingrid Encalada Latorre, Rosa Sabido and Sandra Lopez, are the focus of Women of Resolution, a new multimedia performance piece created by Motus Theater’s artistic director Kirsten Wilson. A mix of storytelling, photography, music and spoken word, the show never allows the viewer to disengage; it seeks to familiarize the audience with the raw emotion of these women’s stories, to experience the grief, helplessness, hope and courage they wrestle with on a daily basis. “If you don’t have a family member who is undocumented, who is negotiating the violence of the rhetoric and the actions on the border as well as detention centers, it’s easy to put that on the list of things that aren’t going well in the country right now,” Wilson says. “But if you know someone, you’re aware that this is part of a core issue of identity that will affect not just the people on the border but everyone.” To start, Wilson collaborated with photojournalist (and editor of Boulder Weekly) Joel Dyer, as he traveled around the state conducting interviews and photographing the four Colorado women for his Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines Project. “I saw this as an opportunity to make sure that when people heard the stories of these women, who are courageous enough to not go quietly into an unjust system, [they would] reflect on the stakes of this,” Wilson says. Using her experience with autobiographical monologue form, Wilson took Dyer’s initial conversations with each woman and wove their stories together to be read by Colorado legislators Rep. Jonathan Singer, Rep. Leslie Herod, Rep. Joe Salazar and Rep. Mike Foote. “If I can use some of my power and privilege to help show that these people are our friends and neighbors, then I think it’s about time we should do that,” says Rep. Jonathan Singer, who will be reading Ingrid Encalada Latorre’s story as part of the performance. He has visited her several times at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, where she’s been in sanctuary since mid-December 2017. Four generations ago, Singer’s family fled to the U.S. from Eastern European pogroms, and he says that as a country of immigrants, we can’t forget where we’ve come from. Boulder Weekly
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“I’d like to think that if I were ever in a situation where I had to leave my country, I’d want to know that there were people there that maybe didn’t look like me but were willing to accept me and not only accept me, but celebrate me,” he says. “Fundamentally what I’m about is that we treat people like humans and remind people that we’re the country that loves people no matter where they come from.” In an effort to leave space within the performance for that emotional response, the readings will be accompanied by Dyer’s photography interON THE BILL: Women of spersed with a capella singing by Teresita Lozano, Resolution. 2 p.m. Sunday, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the Oct. 14. Live performance University of Colorado Boulder who specializes at eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. Watch the live in research about how music influences transnastream with Ingrid Encalada tional identities. Latorre in sanctuary at “We want people to really be able to pause UUCB, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. For more and feel. What do you do when you feel powerinformation visit motustheless? What do you do when you hear things and ater.org. you want to stop it, but you don’t know how,” Wilson says. “The music actually helps us hold the bigness of the pain and the bigness of our lives and people’s lives so that, I believe, we will be able to take in the stories in a deeper way and in a reflective way.” To end, Denver spoken-word poet Dominique Christina will perform a poetic response. “This entire event is about having a human conversation and asking people to think about what it is like for these women and what it would be like for any one of us in a similar situation, how we would want to be held, how we would want to be treated, how we want to be spoken to and spoken about,” she says. “For me it’s as simple as these are women like I am a woman, and they are mothers like I’m a mother.” With the performance comes a call to action. While in sanctuary across the state, the four women banded together to create the People’s Resolution, a blueprint for policy changes on a local and state level in hopes of creating a legal way for them to leave sanctuary without the threat of deportation. They are currently gathering endorsements before referring the resolution to the state legislature. “I see this performance as good medicine for the community,” Wilson says. “I think people are profoundly concerned with justice, and it will give people an opportunity to both grieve and feel inspired and empowered.” Boulder Weekly
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he first time Paul Janeway saw the work of Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, he found himself transfixed by the artist’s choice to paint subjects with dirty feet and ragged fingernails, with Caravaggio’s somber, working-class representations of holy figures like Mary and St. Matthew. For Janeway, a working-class man who now fronts soul group St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Caravaggio’s work was a revelation, an ingenious mix of the ethereal and the terrestrial. “Throughout the Renaissance, when you painted Mary, it was this reverence, there was this glow,” Janeway says on the phone from Boston, where the band has landed after a week of shows around New York. “With Caravaggio, he was using common people. I’ve always thought about him as a workingclass artist. There was a darkness to it, it felt real. These are common people, people you’d meet down the street. For St. Kathryn or Mary, there was a prostitute friend he would typically use [as a model]. “I always thought that was really beautiful and that he’s the kind of artist, though my father and grandfather would never be into that, I think they would appreciate.” There’s an intersection between these things for Janeway, between his complex relationships with his father and grandfather, his love of art and his passion for the working-class, conservative world in which he was raised in Alabama. Janeway tethers these disparate aspects of his life and personality on his band’s new album, Young Sick Camellia. Musically, the album fuses the band’s trademark soul with cerebral interludes and a touch of electronic funk. Lyrically, it steers away from the message-driven content of the band’s previous album, Sea of Noise, to focus on the Janeway clan, specifically Paul, his father and his grandfather. Conceptually, Young Sick Camellia borrows from Caravaggio’s piece “Young Sick Bacchus,” a jaundiced self-portrait the artist rendered while he was sick. The album’s cover, a wilting camellia — the Boulder Weekly
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state flower of Alabama — greets listenJaneway says his relationship with ers with eerie personification. his father and grandfather could be The record is the first in a very perdescribed as typically southern, typically sonal trilogy Janeway hopes to pen, this masculine. one written from his perspective, the “My grandfather worked every day next two from the point-of-view of his of his life and never went on vacation,” father and grandfather. Interludes he says. “He had a pretty angry streak, include snippets from a conversation very hard person. Didn’t say I love you. Janeway had with his grandfather, who My dad is kind of the same way. I strugdied shortly after the album was gle with stuff like that. I have to try and released. make an effort. Even people I work “It was one conversation we had, just with, I have to make an effort to complian hour-and-a-half long one day,” ment them,” he admits with a laugh. Janeway says. “[St. Paul and the Broken “I have to work at that. I put my Bones] were opening up for Hall and head down and plow through, which Oates in Texas. It was can be good. It can also something I wanted to be bad. My dad and do, knew I wanted to grandfather’s relationON THE BILL: St. Paul and the Broken Bones — do a while ago. I told ship was always comwith Black Pumas. 7:30 him, ‘I’m going to plicated. They had... p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, record this conversathey were never really Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. $35. tion,’ and he didn’t care. affectionate. Me and About two months after my dad didn’t have a that he got sick. It was really good relationship one of those things where, you know, until my late teens. I guess when I the music just took a different meaning moved in with him, it was like a twoafter he passed. Now it’s a little more bedroom apartment, and there were haunting than what I initially wanted. three other people. I think that’s what That’s what happens with art.” changed our relationship because I The album opens with an atmounderstood him a little bit more. I spheric feel and theme with “Cumulus always thought he was angry and tough Pt. 1,” the elder Janeway talking about on me. I’m glad I did that because we tornados tearing through the low-lying have a decent relationship now.” land of Georgia and Alabama. As a voracious reader, Janeway’s litThe theme of storms runs througherary tastes often influence his musical out the album, and throughout St. Paul’s output as well. The band’s 2016 album, work in general. Sea of Noise, filled with images of gun “[There’s a] Sisyphus quote: ‘I was violence and references to systems of born from the storm,’” Janeway says. “I oppression in the U.S., was inspired in feel like that’s a line between my grand- part by activist lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s father, father and me. This chip on my memoir Just Mercy. For these more pershoulder, you have to prove yourself. sonal records, Janeway turned to Detroit Anytime there was a church song about poet Philip Levine. storms, [like] ‘I’ve been in the storm too “I think poetry really helps get me in long,’ that imagery I’m always drawn to. the right headspace,” he says. “It’s very I wanted [my grandfather] to share the much like a working-class kind of poetworst storm he’d been in.” ry. It’s beautiful.” October 11 , 2018 37
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he Boulder Philharmonic calls its 2018–19 season Open Space, and will begin its classical programming focusing on the openest space of all. Under the title Infinite Space, the Phil will perform music about stars and astronomers and planets. You might guess one of the pieces: The Planets by Gustav Holst, one of the best loved and most programmed pieces for orchestra. The other two are completely new to Boulder audiences, having both been written in this century: Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst and James Stephenson’s Celestial Suite. “To take something well loved and surround it with music that is a discovery for people — that is the formula we have followed for a while,” Michael Butterman, the Boulder Phil’s music director, says. Neither of the new pieces is a world premiere, but Butterman believes their inclusion is significant. “It’s one thing to get an orchestra to play something once and enjoy the cachet of a premiere, but to have it given a life beyond that is what every composer wants,” he says. Montgomery is affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports African-American and Latinx string players. Starburst was written for the Sphinx Virtuosi, a string orchestra that performs without a conductor, while Montgomery was composer-inresidence to the group. “With a name like Starburst you might expect a lot of percussion and brass,” Butterman says. “It’s remarkable that she’s able to create a sense of dynamism and energy with just [strings alone]. It has energy and explosiveness without using the other timbres that you find in a full orchestra.” Stephenson’s Celestial Suite has five movements, each named for a famous astronomer who contributed to our understanding of the universe: Copernicus, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Edwin Hubbell and Stephen Hawking.
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“This is a look at the human story of coming to an understanding of our place in the solar system and the universe,” Butterman says. “He gives a musical take on each of them in some unusual and interesting ways.” One technique is using musical ideas that relate to each astronomer’s times. For example, he uses references to Renaissance lute music for Galileo, a quotation from the Lutheran chorale “How Brightly Shines the Morning Star” for Newton, and early 20th-century ragtime for Hubbell, who was doing research work in the 1920s. There are also obscure musical in-jokes that Stephenson employs, mostly for his own enjoyment, since it takes detailed analysis to uncover them. For example, Copernicus was the astronomer who identified the sun as the center of the solar system, and in that movement Stephenson uses the note G, which is “sol” in musical syllables, which in turn is Latin for
“sun,” as a central pitch. Similar techniques are used to relate each movement to the letters E-A-R-T-H. Celestial Suite will be accompanied by a video created by Kyle Kramer, a trumpet player and physicist who is a friend of the composer. “The videos are compiled from millions of fantastic images from NASA,” Kramer says. “It’s a combination of real images taken by telescopes and computer animations of things that we can’t actually take images of — for example black holes.” Kramer says the images are related to the work that each astronomer did, and timed to coordinate with the movement of the music. “There was a level of listening to the music and thinking about which image within the astronomy theme of each movement would be most appropriate,” he says. Holst’s Planets will also be accompanied by a video, “The Planets Re-imagined.” The video was created by artist Gary Kelley, who is known for his posters and illustrations, and The New Live, a company specializing in multimedia productions for the concert stage. Kelley created more than 25 separate images, from large oil paintings to small illustrations, that are combined in video imagery. World War I and the time after the war is the subject of the images, rather than the physical planets themselves. This relates to Holst’s score in two ways. First, the score was written during World War I, and in fact, the Boulder Phil performance coincides with the centennial of both the end of the war and the first performance of The Planets in 1918. And second, the music was not inspired by the physical planets, but rather by their mythological and astrological significance, such as “Mars, the Bringer of War.” “The reason I am excited about this video is that it takes a different approach to The Planets,” Butterman says. “This is about us here on Earth and the human experience.”
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WORLD PREMIER: ‘ODE TO MUIR.’ 7:30 P.M., THURSDAY, OCT. 11, BOULDER THEATER, 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER. John Muir dedicated his life to protecting the mountains he loved. In that same protective spirit, Teton Gravity’s latest release follows professional snowboarder and Protect Our Winters founder Jeremy Jones, along with U.S. Olympian snowboarder Elena Hight, as they explore the John Muir Wilderness in California’s Eastern Sierra during a nineday, self-supported splitboarding expedition. With epic scenes of winter camping, grueling mountain climbs and first descents, the film both celebrates Muir and his conservation efforts, while also examining the challenges we face in continuing to protect the environment from the threat of climate change. Tickets are $7-$15.
KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH’S ROCKTOBERFEST. 2 P.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 13, UPSLOPE BREWING CO., 1898 S. FLATIRON COURT, BOULDER. Kyle Hollingsworth has hosted nearly two dozen beer festivals. His latest endeavor supports the Conscious Alliance, a nonprofit committed to hunger relief and youth empowerment. Head over to Upslope Brewing to enjoy 60 craft beers from more than 30 breweries while you jam to music from the Kyle Hollingsworth Band and some very special guests. The event will also feature exclusive collaboration brews from Hollingsworth and select breweries. VIP tickets are also available providing early entry, tasting with Hollingsworth, private brewery tour with Hollingsworth, a limited edition pin and more. Tickets are on sale at KyleHollingsworth.com.
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Lindsey Buckingham is a world class, Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famer who needs no introduction, but his opening act, Nairobi-born, Minneapolisbased singer/songwriter J.S. Ondara, is just breaking out, and his elegant voice and delicate take on blues is not to be missed.
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SONGS OF THE TEXAS TROUBADOURS FEATURING KRISTING MURRAY “Tribute”
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CU BOULDER EVENTS For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu. THURSDAY, OCT. 11 Imagination Rules the World: Russell Kirk and Conservatism. 5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 130 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.
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How the Forverts is Being Transformed in the Digital Era. 7 p.m. University Club, Chancellor’s Silver & Gold Room, 927 Broadway, Boulder. FRIDAY, OCT. 12 Guest Master Class: Scott Rawls, viola. 3 p.m. Imig Music, Chamber Hall (C199), 1020 18th St., Boulder. Colin Dayan Talk. 4:30 p.m. Norlin Library, M549, The Center for British and Irish Studies, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Guest Master Class: Andrew Jennings, violin. 6:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
Startup Weekend Boulder Space. 6:30 p.m. CU IdeaForge, 2445 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.
SUNDAY, OCT. 14 SPARK! Cultural Programming for People with Memory Loss. 1:30 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), TreeSpace Gallery, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17
SATURDAY, OCT. 13 CU Boulder Surplus Property Auction. 9 a.m. Distribution Center, 3300 Walnut St., Boulder.
CU Volleyball vs. OSU. 2 p.m. CU Events Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder.
UROP Sidewalk Symposium: Research & Innovation Week Featured Event. 1 p.m. Norlin Library, West Entrance Plaza, 1157 18th St., Boulder.
Building for Eternity: The Romans Conquer the Sea. 1 p.m. Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotec Building, Butcher Auditorium, 3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder. CU Soccer vs. UO. 1 p.m. Prentup Field., Discovery Drive, Boulder. Even the Earth is Bipolar II: Curved Space Comedy. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Boulder Philharmonic: Infinite Space. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
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Chamber Winds: Vibrant Musical Visions. 2 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. MONDAY, OCT. 15 Research & Innovation Week. 8 a.m. Across campus. Through Oct. 19. TUESDAY, OCT. 16 Mini Law School. 7:30 p.m. CU Law School and Livestream, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittridge Loop Drive, Boulder. More dates through Nov. 13. Grain Changers: Celebrating the Heirloom Wheat Revival. 6:30 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.
National Fossil Day: All about trilobites! 11 a.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), North entrance, 1035 Broadway, Boulder.
ENVS Colloquium — Diane McKnight. 3:30 p.m. Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community, N124, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder. Space, Place and Diversity in the Arts Panel. 5:45 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Ingmar Bergman 100: Celebrating the master film director. 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 1B90, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Visiting Artist Program: Paul Ramirez Jonas lecture. 6:30 p.m. Art & Art History Building, Visual Arts Complex, 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder.
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LAST MEN ON EARTH “Arena Rock”
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NICE WORK JAZZ COMBO FEATURING HEIDI SCHMIDT “Classic Jazz”
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THE ARISTOCATS “Variety Dance”
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Thursday, October 11 Music Anthony Russo Duo. 6 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Church. 7 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Finn O’Sullivan. 6 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont, 303-258-6910. Kristina Murray. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Sleeping Beauty. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888. Through Oct. 14. Events Adultology: Fermentation 2.0: Kombucha and Beyond. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cinema Program screening: La Roue. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.
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Cinema Program screening: Persona. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Comedian James Johann. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. Film: Coco. 7:15 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Flatirons Food Film Festival. 5 p.m. Various Locations in Boulder: Boulder Public Library,
Nomad Playhouse, Muenzinger Auditorium, 303-449-5928. Through Oct. 14. Front deRanged Improv Comedy. 7:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Osnat Fox: Lecture about Israeli Graffiti and Street Art — 11th Annual Neustadt JAAMM Festival. 6:30 p.m. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303316-6360. Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Teton Gravity Research: Ode to Muir — World Premiere. 6:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Third Murder. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Friday, October 12 Music Bo DePeña. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Suite 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Dawn and Hawkes. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Disco Til Your Dead Dance Party. 6 p.m. Rockin Robbins Retro & Resale, 233 Main St., Longmont, 303-652-4144.
Mad Dog Blues Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. The Main Squeeze. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Matty G., Josh Wexler. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Mercy Club. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. St. Paul & the Broken Bones — with Black Pumas. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 716-785-7655. Events Addams Family Burlesque Parody. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-293-0075. Aerial Day Off Camp. 9 a.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Suite 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Day of the Dead: Opening Reception. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. An Evening at the Museum. 7 p.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332. Indigenous People’s Day at The Collective. 6 p.m. The Collective - Community Arts Center, 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette.
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Mai Wyn Schantz: Magnetic North. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden. Through Oct. 21. Oil Paintings By Nickie Barbee. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Nov. 3. REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6.
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A collection of early newspapers, restored cameras, artifacts and old-time commerce. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.
EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building - Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
Anthrome: A Survey of Jason DeMarte’s Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18.
Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019. EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building - Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
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BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 7:00 PM
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Is It Photography? — Fu Wenjun. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillon Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Oct. 12. Through Nov. 25.
Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Through Dec. 1. Indigenize Your Eyes. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.
Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6. So authentic, it hurts — Amber St Lucia. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Oct. 12. Through Nov. 25. Someday, Everything — Dave Rowe. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Opens Oct. 12. Through Nov. 25. Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15. Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 20.
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Krystle Wright: Behind the Camera. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Saturday, October 13 Music Anxious Little Friends Fest Day 2. 7 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303733-0230.
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A Bears Choice. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.
Blitzen Trapper. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
The Crystal Method. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909.
Boulder Philharmonic: Infinite Space. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343.
An Evening with Leslie Odom, Jr. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Coyote Poets of the Universe CD Release Celebration. 7 p.m. The Muse Performace
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LASERMAU5 SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 1:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 2:30 PM
STARS AND MOONS 7:00 PM
EVEN THE EARTH IS BIPOLAR II: CURVED SPACE COMEDY
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LASER FLOYD: WELCOME TO THE MACHINE SUNDAY OCTOBER 14 12:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: LIFE OF TREES / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA
Whether you’re new to winemaking or a seasoned pro, Richard Bender’s ‘Wild Wine Making’ makes the practice accessible, thanks to its focus on small batches that require minimal equipment and use an unexpected range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs. Head to Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. to hear Bender talk about some of his favorite recipes.
Sunday, Oct. 14
Wednesday, Oct. 17
BAFS “Second Sundays” Poetry Workshop. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Anne Lamott — Almost Everything: Notes on Hope. 7 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, Denver.
Freedoms in Expression Reading. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Dorothy Marcic — With One Shot. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070
Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Liza Mundy — Code Girls. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book, Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
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Monday, Oct. 15
Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
David Levithan — Someday. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Richard Bender — Wild Wine Making. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Catlyn Ladd — Strip. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258.
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Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera — What If It’s Us. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book, Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
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John Schuttler — Liberated Spirits. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book, Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Dominique Christina — Anarcha Speaks. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Paul Angone — 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070
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Andy Chaleff — The Last Letter. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.
Leif Enger — Virgil Wander. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book, Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Friday, Oct. 12
Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive
Tuesday, Oct. 16
Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
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So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.
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Jimmy Hall — with My Blue Sky. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Jordan Boyer. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kopo Magic. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kristina Murray Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Last Nerve Band featuring MJ — with Special Guest Erica Brown. 8:30 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
The Shining Film Screening & Costume Contest. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Starving the Beast. 2 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU Boulder, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-4494. Sunday, October 14 Music Beyond Borders: Music & Words for the Year of the Bird. 3 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 360-632-3855.
Blue Canyon Boys. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
The Riley Williams Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.
Streamline Cannonball. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Henry Rollins: Travel Slideshow Tour. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Traditional Irish Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulderado Hotel License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4560.
The Music Of Michael Jackson For Kids. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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Not One More. 2 p.m. Levitt Pavilion, 1380 W. Florida Ave., Denver, 303-578-0488.
Ballet Melange Presents Melange D’Amour. 4 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Theatre, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver, 303-500-3226.
Michelle Azar’s From Baghdad to Brooklyn Theatre Event — 11th Annual JAAMM Festival. 7:30 p.m. Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, 303-316-6360. Michelle Roderick Music. 7 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Mile High Massive — Steel Pulse, Easy Star Allstars and more. 6 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Mipso — with Whippoorwill. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Norman Baker. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Octoberfest with Polka Folka. 3 p.m. Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. SNAP 90’s Dance Party: DJ A-L, DJ Love, DJ Garthy Garth, and DJ Gary Givant. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Vipers. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, 303-530-7423. Events Afro Brazilian Dance Workshops. 11 a.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Unit 64, Boulder, 719-200-6054. Amazing Bubble Man. 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave Boulder Co, Boulder, 303-443-7510. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. The Bloody Mary Festival. 10:30 a.m. EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver, 303-468-5443. Cool Cat Bash. 1 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-544-1693. Denver Handmade Homemade Market. 12 p.m. FORGE970, 970 Yuma St., Denver, 720-598-2490. Dia de los Muertos Billingual Tours. 1 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Family Play Festival. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Feast of the Senses. 1 p.m. Longmont Recreation Center, 310 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-774-4752. Maker Faire Denver 2018. 10 a.m. National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt Street 80216 At intersection of I-25 and I-70, Denver. Pumpkin Pie Days: Vintage & Antique Market. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-776-1870. Through Oct. 14. Reynolds 50th Birthday Celebration. 10 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
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Aloha: Postcards from Polynesia. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 18. Annie Get Your Gun. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 25. The Cake. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 31. Cannibal! The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Oct. 27. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 13.
The Constant Wife. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 21. Dear Evan Hansen. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 13.
Educating Rita. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Nov. 11. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 3. Invaders from Planet 9 — presented by Arts in the Open. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline road, Boulder. Through Oct. 28. The Kentucky Cycle. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Oct. 21.
The Laramie Project — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. Lafayette’s Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette. Through Oct. 14. Love Alone — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, CFU Lowry Campus, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Nov. 10. Lungs. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 14. Mamma Mia! Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Sept. 30. Mary Poppins. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Nov. 11. Men on Boats — presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Arts Center, The Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Oct. 13. Oklahoma! Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 14. Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 29. Uncanny Valley. Benchmark Theatre Company, 40West, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Oct. 13.
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Goats Galore: Meet and Greet. 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8688.
Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
GoodCinema Presents: Crown Heights. 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse - Sloans Lake, 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, 985-285-9998.
Nancy Norton. 7 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.
Modern Physics Book Discussions. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Wednesday, October 17
The Well Fall Fest. 4 p.m. Boulder County Commissioners Lawn, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-583-5189. Monday, October 15 Music American Opera. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Dreamers. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Jazz Jam at the Muse. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Lindsey Buckingham. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Shoreline Mafia: Only The Xclusives Tour. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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The Simon & Garfunkel Story. 7:30 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106,. The Turkey Buzzards. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Vocal Playshop: Finding the Ground, Learning to Fly —with Tom Weiser, part of Mmmwhah’s Vocal Playshop Series. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Events Mis Pininos/Spanish Conversation for Kids. 4:15 p.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
STEAM Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. VIVA Theater at the Library. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Younger Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, October 16 Music ELMR, Theresa Peterson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Pat Methany. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. In Dreams: Roy Orbison Hologram Concert. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. KnowMads — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series with Boulder Phil. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Events Around the World Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Dia de los Muertos Curator Conversations. 12 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Music Chief Keef. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jazzetry Night! featuring Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Necropanther. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E 1st Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Events HOJI World Premiere. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Arts Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BTAB @ MAIN. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English Wednesdays includes Beginner Group! 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Flatirons Mineral Club. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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There is a poem lying beside the road, its red fur ablaze in the morning sunlight. The spine of the poem is broken and one leg is partially severed exposing ligament and bone. The words are still wet beside the body. Sentences are smeared along the roadside and the car that did not stop. The composition is still warm to the touch. I slowly stroke the soft fur and admire the long bushy tale. The poem’s pain is set upon the muzzle, but the blue-gray eyes are at peace. They see something I cannot. I gather what words I can and hold the poem close to my chest. Unnoticed, by the world of man, I carry the poem into the woods. This is no place for a beautiful poem to end.
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‘Babette’s Feast’ and the divinity of transformation by Michael J. Casey
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eneral Lorens Löwenhielm ( Jarl ON THE BILL: Babette’s Kulle), a middle-aged man with Feast — Homage to a lifetime of missed opportunities Anthony Bourdain at the behind him, has come to dinner. Flatirons Food Film Festival. 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Seated next to his aunt, and two Boulder Public Library, chairs away from an old flame, the general is surCanyon Theater, 1001 rounded by nine others, all dressed in black, sayArapahoe Ave., Boulder, flatironsfoodfilmfest. ing little and smiling less. org/2018/08/homage-toHe takes a sip of the soup: turtle soup, pheanthony-bourdain/ nomenal turtle soup. No one else at the table bats an eye. Then comes the Champagne, and not just any Champagne, but 1860 Veuve Clicquot. The general taps his neighbor on the shoulder. “I’m sure this is Veuve Clicquot,” he whispers. “Yes, it is,” the man nods without a hint of emotion. The general is flabbergasted: this is a remote seaside Danish village with about a dozen buildings and just as many residents; how in the world could they get such exquisite Champagne? And who is making this extraordinary soup? Welcome to Babette’s Feast, a 1987 Danish film adapted from Karen Blixen’s short story of the same name. Blixen gained currency in the film world when Sidney Pollack adapted her memoir Out of Africa with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in 1985, but Babette is easily her greatest contribution to the cinematic arts. Babette’s Feast is, first and foremost, a delightful masterpiece. Director Gabriel Axel deviates from Blixen’s story only slightly, mostly rounding off her hard edges while retaining the spirit underneath. A spirit bolstered by cinematographer Henning Kristiansen, who turns every image into a Vermeer painting. If good art borrows while the best art steals, then the greatest art transforms. Though the title belongs to Babette (Stéphane Audran), a renowned French chef in exile, Babette’s Feast centers on two sisters: Filippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of a widowed pastor and prophet. All who inhabit this tiny village count themselves as disciples of the pastor, adhering to austerity levels even a monk would question. Enter Babette, a refugee seeking sanctuary on a dark and stormy night. Though the sisters don’t need a cook — their meals consisting primarily of stale bread soaked in ale and cooked down into a slop fit for neither man nor beast — Christian charity forbids they turn the stranger out. And so, Babette comes to be the sister’s cook. Then, a twist: Babette wins the French lottery, 10,000 francs. What to do with the money? She’ll prepare a feast, a full French feast to celebrate the centennial of the sisters’ father. Not exactly what the sisters had in mind, but Babette insists on repaying their kindness. The sisters relent and what happens next is nothing short of a miracle. Babette’s Feast is quite possibly the only food film where you can enter the theater hungry and leave full. As Babette transforms the raw ingredients of animal and plant into a sumptuous meal, the diners are equally transformed. The villagers bury old grudges. The general proclaims, “Mercy and truth have met together.” They sing hymns and dance off into the night. And we exit the theater feeling full and satisfied, though we haven’t eaten a single thing. Such is the power of true art. Boulder Weekly
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he first time I saw Babette’s Feast, I left the theater ravenously famished, emotionally drained and spiritually moved. One of the Danish film’s key characters, General Lorens Löwenhielm, sums it up: “This evening I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible.” I never looked at dinner as just food on the table — or at cooks as mere makers — again. The Academy’s 1988 Best Foreign Language Film is often named by chefs as their favorite food-centric flick. “It captures the real pleasures of sitting at
a table, a little bit drunk on good wine, eating incredible food. They just got it right,” said the late Anthony Bourdain. Starting today, Boulder’s Flatirons Food Film Festival brings together a community of brewers, chefs, food-makers, farmers, activists and filmmakers for four days showcasing feature films, documentaries and shorts with expert discussions, unique dining and learning opportunities as well as a smorgasbord of great local foods to taste at every event. Saturday’s highlight is a heartfelt homage to Bourdain and Babette’s. In its sixth year, the only multi-day food see NIBBLES Page 54
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film festival in the U.S. opens Oct. 11 with a program lowed Sunday night with a viewing of The Cakemaker, made for Boulder, the epicenter of America’s craft an international drama involving death, love and pasbrew renaissance. Besides a beer tasting dinner and a tries, at the Nomad Playhouse. Downtown Boulder brew tour, the new documentary Lately, I’ve watched the final episodes of Parts Brewmaster will be screened, followed by a panel disUnknown, but it’s gut-wrenching. It’s just a tragedy that Anthony Bourdain’s walk through this beautiful cussion featuring homebrewing and Boulder beer festival legend Charlie Papazian. world is over. On Friday, the festival screens Cuban Food Stories, Tickets: Flatirons Food Film Festival, Oct. 11-14, a film about Cuban-born director Asori Sotos’ return various Boulder venues, flatironsfoodfilmfest.org to the island to rediscover the authentic flavors and food stories from his childhood. Courtesy of Sustainable Settings Saturday morning’s Children and Family Food Traditions at the Boulder Public Library features three short food films that highlight family and food followed by a learning session with Boulder Italian and Japanese families making crostini and onigiri (rice balls). The Saturday night Homage to Anthony Bourdain includes a tasting of international street foods, a showing of Babette’s Feast (including an introduction by Bourdain), and a discussion and Q&A with Bourdain’s biographer and his longtime Emmy-winning cinematographer. Controversy has never been a stranger at this festival, which has tackled critical food issues along with providing appetizing entertainment. Sunday’s lineup Local food news starts with an 11 a.m. farm animal tour at Boulder’s After only a year as the Boulder Beer Company at Cure Organic Farm and an Eating Animals Brunch at 1123 Walnut St., the former Walnut Brewery space is River & Woods with a discussion of the ethical now Squared Pizza + Beer, serving thick-crusted dilemmas of eating meat led by Paul Willis, a founder Detroit-style pizza and house-brewed ales. ... Boulder’s of Niman Ranch. Two agricultural documentaries will screen Sunday Fresh Thymes Marketplace, Colorado’s first CSR (community supported restaurant), has expanded to afternoon. How We Grow profiles young farmers in offer ready-to-eat, house-made, gluten-free baked Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley who are learning to goods, paleo desserts, a hot bone broth bar, fermented raise sustainable food for their local community. foods, specialty diet meals and gluten-free cooking Eating Animals is a clear-eyed examination of the classes. ... In local comfort-food news, Boulder’s problems that come with modern industrial agriculFishSki Provisions has introduced a non-GMO, ture. CBD-infused Hatch Green Chile, Cheddar, Garlic The annual gathering concludes naturally with Mac and Cheese mix with 35 milligrams of non-psybaked goods. A tasting of cakes from Lucky’s Bakehouse and Ramon Jose Culinary Creations is fol- choactive CBD extracted from Colorado hemp. ...
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t isn’t true what they say about cooking radicchio. Whatever it is that they say, it isn’t true. Few plants radiate as much beauty as radicchio; even fewer do so while simultaneously delivering black belt-level bitterness. In the produce section, radicchio stands out, its deep purple foliage making the veins appear all the more blindingly white, emanating a sense of clean crisp. At home, you find that sharp dress to be more than skin deep. The leaves taste like something that most people would just as soon spit out, as soon as possible. Because what they’ve learned about radicchio is wrong.
Every recipe for cooked radicchio that you will find includes some note about how braising or grilling or whatevering radicchio will soften, mellow, relax or otherwise temper its taste.That may work for cabbage, but radicchio is a whole different plant. If anything softens when you cook radicchio, it’s the radicchio itself, which collapses into a damp heap as the leaves weep the water that had once pressurized their stout bodies, which are no longer royal purple and dazzling white, but dilute gray brown. All of the bitterness remains, and that’s OK. The problem is the slimy, stringy remains of a dish that appears to be in a state of decay, and shouldn’t have been prepared to begin with. Because most toxins are bitter, humans have understandably become wired to regard bitter flavors with extreme skepticism. But clearly we are also born with the capacity to override this aversion, and actually come around to appreciate certain bitter flavors on a case-by-case basis. Chocolate, coffee and beer, for example, have all earned passes, as they are non-toxic, or even pleasantly intoxicating or stimulating, and make us feel good in various ways. But with bitter vegetables the benefit is not so immediately obvious. And without something to compel us to accept a certain type of bitterness, we often stay in default mode, and simply avoid these flavors. But, aside from the various feelings they invoke, bitter vegetables are worth exploring for the sake of flavor alone. Jennifer McLagan, author of the award-winning Bitter: A taste of the world’s most dangerous flavor, likens bitterness
Radicchio may be bitter, but that’s a good thing.
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Those burgundy leaves are as tightly packed as those of a head of cabbage, and just as crispy, but the radicchio’s crisp depends on water pressure rather than the fiber that gives cabbage its crunch. A more important distinction is that the spicy elements of cabbage’s flavor do mellow with cooking, unlike the bitter elements of radicchio. Confusing radicchio and cabbage may be at the root of why everyone is wrong about radicchio; even Wikipedia seems to conflate the two, which come from different plant families entirely. 56 October 11 , 2018
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to a kind of wizened charisma, “a silverhaired man in a tailored suit, with a hint of a bad-boy aura about him.” “Bitter,” she writes, “is a cultured, intriguing, and sophisticated taste, with a dangerous side. Who could be more fun to cook or to dine with?” My wife seems to agree. She would sooner dine with a bowl of radicchio than her husband. We live on a radicchio sanctuary institute, where my wife is chief caretaker, lead researcher and executive salad dressing maker. She is so far past the bitter barrier that bitter tastes better to her than sweet. Many of these bitter flavors come from vitamins, antioxidants and various phytonutrients, which are biologically active plant compounds associated with positive health effects. My wife eats radicchio like some people eat chips and salsa. She either peels the leaves off a head, or slices it into wedges. Either way, she’s dipping the radicchio unit into her special dressing, which consists of two parts extra virigin olive oil (EVOO), one part soy sauce, one part vinegar (the vinegar portion being equal parts cider and balsamic vinegars), and half a lime for each cup of dressing. Her typical dinner consists of 6-10 radicchio heads, or a massive bowl of leaves from the sanctuary, where the harvest of entire heads is frowned upon. Her dressing is designed to celebrate, rather than hide the bitterness. She says eating all that radicchio makes her body feel good, approximately as good as coffee, beer and chocolate combined (not literally combined) make normal people feel. Being a relative grasshopper in radicchiology compared to her, I don’t mind a little assistance in order to get to that special place. So I’ve designed my own chocolate and beer-based salad dressing, with which to handle life’s bitterest leaves. Some may consider it cheating to Boulder Weekly
incorporate chocolate and beer, but I call it science. By surrounding the bitter flavors of radicchio with bitter flavors from elsewhere, the bitter jolt of a naked bite is couched in layered complexity, a context that has the effect of softening the bitter like cooking wishes it could. In addition to the beer — a citrusy IPA, ideally — and the chocolate, which is added in the form of powdered hot cocoa mix, the dressing contains bitter notes from olive oil, garlic powder and cumin. Meanwhile, the bitter flavors are countered by the sweetness of the hot chocolate mix, and acidity from the vinegar, lime juice and beer.
Chocolate Radicchio Dressing 3/4 cup EVOO 1 T hot cocoa powder 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar 2 T IPA beer, preferably a citrusy brew 1 T lime or lemon juice Salt, black pepper, garlic powder, cumin, to taste
Combine ingredients, season to taste by dipping leaves and testing. When it tastes right, continue dipping your leaves into the dressing. Or better yet, use the dressing to flavor goodies that you can wrap in radicchio. Those purple leaves may not like being cooked themselves, but wrapped around rich foods, they not only add a dignified dose of bitterness, but hold it all together for perfect mouthfuls every time. My favorite use of my new dressing, so far, is to toss it with rounds of panfried sausage and fried cheese curd, and place those in a radicchio leaf with raw shallot, pine nuts and a slice of jalapeno, and maybe another dollop of dressing. Fold, insert in mouth, bliss out bitterly, repeat. If this mouthful of bitter, sweet, spicy, sour, salty fat doesn’t make you a bitter believer, it may not be in the cards. But at least you didn’t waste any time, or radicchio, cooking it limp.
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f you’ve been drinking in the Boulder craft scene for a while, the Stein Brewing Company — located at 2516 49th St., Suite 5 — may seem familiar. And you’d be correct: from January 2013 to August 2018, this was the home of J Wells Brewery. Located in an industrial garage space and run by Jamie Wells, J Wells Brewery was a proud nano-brewery surrounded by a county’s worth of heavy hitters. And that doesn’t seem to be something the Stein Brewing Company looks to change. As the beer-tender says while pouring a taster of Hop Haze, “Everything’s the same, just a new owner.” Though those new owners took over roughly a year ago, J Wells has formally been re-branded as Stein Brewing Company as of August, complete with a four-barrel brewing system, 10 fermenting vessels, garage locale and all. Based on what’s brewing — this is small-batch, after all — Stein has 10 beers on tap: five regulars ON TAP: Stein and five specials. As the name denotes, the regulars Brewing Company, lean toward German origin: Rye Kölsch, brilliantly 2516 49th St., Suite 5, clear with a goldenrod color, clean nose and just Boulder, stein-brewing.com enough chewy cereal grain underneath a crisp finish; Hefeweizen, golden and hazy in appearance, banana and clove in taste with an attractive stream of carbonation reminiscent of Champagne; Red IPA, smoky and leathery; P.G. IPA; and Rye IPA — more on those two later. Currently in the specialty column are Dunkelweissen, sporting more banana than chocolate, a boozy Wheatwine Ale, which is both syrupy sweet and granola-y chewy; Lights Out Stout, a big and roasty imperial stout; and Hop Haze IPA, a throwback to the J Wells days. Unsurprisingly, IPAs are the best beers in Stein Brewing’s catalog. P.G. IPA — formerly known as Pleasant Gentleman — is a standard West Coast style: brilliant in appearance, clean in flavor with a solid hop profile. Rye IPA, probably Stein’s best, adds 40 percent rye malt and flaked rye to the grain bill to give the beer a little more complexity. The appearance is cloudy yellow with a sticky lacing down the glass. The nose is inviting: musty in a damp woodsy kind of way, dank in a not-quite-hemp/not-quite-not sort of way. The flavor highlights lupulin with a touch of burn in the back and a hint of astringency in the finish. It’s a beer that doesn’t try to trick you: you’re drinking IPA all the way down. But if you still need to take it up a tick, Hop Haze is the brewery’s version of an Imperial IPA, big and boozy with a hint of honey on the finish. Yeah, it’s sweet, but with 120 international bittering units, there is a bit of a balance to the beast. Fare thee well, J Wells, and welcome Stein Brewing. Yes, the name has changed, but the drinking remains more or less the same.
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Being practiit is the animal he “would most like to be eaten by.” cal is fine as long as you’re idealistically practical. I bring this up, Aries, because now would be a good time, astrologically speaking, for you to identify what SCORPIO animal you would most like to be eaten by. In other OCT. 23-NOV. 21: How far is it from the Land of the words, what creature would you most like to learn from Lost to the Land of the Lost and Found? What’s the and be inspired by? What beautiful beast has the most best route to take? Who and what are likely to provide to give you? the best help? If you approach those questions with a crisply optimistic attitude, you can gather a wealth of TAURUS useful information in a relatively short time. The more APRIL 20-MAY 20: Richard Nelson is an anthropologist research you do about the journey, the faster it will go who has lived for years with the indigenous Koyukon and the more painless it will be. Here’s another fertile people of Alaska. He lauds their “careful watching of question to meditate on: is there a smart and kind way the same events in the same place” over long periods to give up your attachment to a supposedly important of time, noting how this enables them to cultivate a thing that is actually quite burdensome? rich relationship with their surroundings that is incomprehensible to us civilized Westerners. He concludes, SAGITTARIUS “There may be more to learn by climbing the same NOV. 22-DEC. 21: In her only novel, Save Me the mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald described her main character different mountains.” I think that’s excellent counsel for like this: “She quietly expected great things to happen you to employ in the coming weeks. to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.” That’s a bit too much like fairy-tale wisdom for GEMINI me to endorse it unconditionally. But I do believe it MAY 21-JUNE 20: “It is sad that unless you are born a may sometimes be a valid hypothesis — especially for god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you Sagittarians in the coming months. Your faith in you,” writes Gemini author Jamaica Kincaid. I disagree yourself and your desire to have interesting fun will be with her because she implies that if you’re human, even more important than usual in determining what your life is a complete and utter mystery; whereas my adventures you will have. I suggest you start now to lay observation has been that for most of us, our lives are the groundwork for this exhilarating challenge. no more than 80 percent mystery. Some lucky ones have even deciphered as much as 65 percent, leaving only 35 CAPRICORN percent mystery. What’s your percentage? I expect that DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Russian philosopher George between now and Nov. 1, you can increase your underGurdjieff taught that most people are virtually sleepstanding by at least 10 percent. walking even during the day. He said we’re permanently stuck on automatic pilot, prone to reacting in CANCER mechanical ways to every event that comes our way. JUNE 21-JULY 22: You Cancerians may not possess Psychology pioneer Sigmund Freud had an equally the mental dexterity of Virgos or the acute cleverness dim view of us humans. He believed that it’s our of Geminis, but you have the most soulful intelligence normal state to be neurotic; that most of us are chroniin the zodiac. Your empathetic intuition is among your cally out of sync with our surroundings. Now here’s greatest treasures. Your capacity to feel deeply gives you the good news, Capricorn. You’re at least temporarily the ability to intensely understand the inner workings of in a favorable position to refute both men’s theories. life. Sometimes you take this subtle acumen for granted. In fact, I’ll boldly predict that in the next three weeks It may be hard for you to believe that others are stuck you’ll be as authentic and awake and at peace as you’ve at a high-school level of emotional skill when you have been in years. the equivalent of a Ph. D. Everything I just said is a prelude to my advice. In the coming weeks, I doubt you AQUARIUS can solve your big riddle through rational analysis. Your JAN. 20-FEB. 18: In the late 19th-century, American best strategy is to deeply experience all the interesting botanist George Washington Carver began to chamfeelings that are rising up in you. pion the nutritional value of peanuts. His influence led to the plant being grown and used more extensively. LEO Although he accomplished many other innovations, JULY 23-AUG. 22: Do you ever experience stress from including techniques for enhancing depleted soils, he having to be so interesting and attractive all the time? became famous as the Peanut Man. Later in life, he It may on occasion feel like an onerous responsibility to told the story that while young he had prayed to God be the only artful egomaniac amidst swarms of amateur to show him the mystery of the universe, but God egomaniacs. I have a suggestion that might help. Twice a turned him down, saying, “That’s for me alone.” So year, celebrate a holiday I call Dare to Be Boring Week. George asked God to show him the mystery of the During these periods of release and relief, you won’t live peanut, and God agreed, saying, “that’s more nearly up to people’s expectations that you keep them amused your size.” The coming weeks will be a great time for and excited. You’ll be free to be solely focused on amusyou to seek a comparable revelation, Aquarius. ing and exciting yourself, even if that means they’ll think you’re dull. Now is an excellent time to observe PISCES Dare to Be Boring Week. FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Every year, people discard 3.3 million pounds of chewing gum on the streets of VIRGO Amsterdam. A company named Gumdrop has begun AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: A Chinese proverb says, “Tension to harvest that waste and use it to make soles for its is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you new brand of sneakers, Gumshoe. A spokesperson said are.” I’m happy to let you know that you are currently the intention was to “create a product people actually more receptive to this truth than maybe you have ever want from something no one cares about.” I’d love it been. Furthermore, you have more power than usual to if you were inspired by this visionary act of recycling, change your life in ways that incorporate this truth. To Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic omens, get started, meditate on the hypothesis that you can get you now have exceptional powers to transform somemore good work done if you’re calm and composed than thing you don’t want into something you do want. if you’re agitated and trying too hard.
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Dear Dan: I was involved with a straight man who enjoys cross-dressing and taking explicit photos. The problem is that the props he uses belong to his three children, all under age 12. For example, he dressed up as a slutty schoolgirl and wore his daughter’s backpack. He dressed up as a slutty cowgirl and posed with his son’s stuffed horse. He even had the horse eating his “carrot.” I told him he should not use his children’s things as props. He believes that his children will never see the photos, so no harm will come of it. I’m horrified at the thought of these kids (perhaps as adults) stumbling over these pictures. He posts them on Instagram and Facebook, so they aren’t private and he can’t control where they go. It’s one of the reasons I ended the relationship. Is there anything I can say to him? —Canceled Definitely Promising Relationship Over Photo Sessions Dear CDPROPS: You told him what he’s doing is wrong, you explained the enormous risk he’s running, and you dumped him, CDPROPS. You could take one last run at it and try to explain that his children finding these photos isn’t one of those “low-risk, high-consequence events,” i.e., something that’s unlikely to happen but would be utterly disastrous if it did. (Think of the super volcano that is Yellowstone National Park erupting or a deranged, racist bil-
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lionaire somehow managing to win a U.S. presidential election.) Nope, if he’s posting these photos online, at least one of his children will stumble over them — or one of their friends will. (“Hey, isn’t this your dad? And your backpack?”) Your ex needs to knock this shit off, and will most likely need the help of a mental-health pro in order to do so. Dear Dan: My parents were married for almost 40 years — and on paper, things seemed fine. They rarely fought and were an example of a strong, monogamous marriage until the day my mother died. Recently, I found writings by my dad revealing he had several casual encounters with men over the course of their marriage. Do I tell him I know? We are close, but sex isn’t something we usually discuss. What should I do with this information, if anything? —A Deeply Upsetting Lie That Scalds Dear ADULTS: When you say their relationship seemed fine “on paper,” ADULTS, what you mean is
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Dear Dan: I’m married and poly, with one partner in addition to my husband. My partner has a friend-with-benefits arrangement with a woman he’s been with since before we met. The FWB is not poly, but she’s always known my partner is. She has always insisted they’re not a couple, but he knows she would be hurt if she found out he was with someone else, so he has avoided telling her he’s now also with me. I don’t like being someone’s secret. My husband knows I’m with someone else and is fine with it. If my partner’s FWB felt the same, I wouldn’t see a problem. But this feels oddly like I’m helping my partner cheat on his FWB, even though they’re “not a couple” (her words). So it’s not cheating... is it? —Pretty Obviously Lost, Yeah Dear POLY: It’s not cheating — it’s plausible deniability. Your partner’s FWB would rather not know he’s seeing anyone else, so she doesn’t ask him about his other partners and he doesn’t tell. Accommodating his FWB’s desire not to know about other partners — doing the DADT open thing — does mean keeping you a secret, POLY, at least from her. If you’re not comfortable with that, you’ll have to end things with your partner. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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think most women would agree that this has been a difficult but necessary year for the ongoing debate around consent and toxic male behavior. Like, I’m glad we’re all finally talking about it because that’s the first step toward changing the power dynamics and our culture that facilitates them. But as a sexual assault survivor, it’s been exhausting to be constantly exposed to the stories and the barbaric ignorance around them. If the Kavanaugh hearing didn’t emotionally wreck you enough last week, Trump, who has been accused of sexual assault himself and has never left middle school mentally, impersonated Christine Blasey Ford at a Mississippi campaign rally. He then went on to say that “a man’s life is in tatters. A man’s life is shattered.” It feels so strange to live in a time where the POTUS openly mocks a sexual assault survivor, or anyone for that matter, at the encouragement of his supporters. Trump clearly doesn’t understand that a woman’s life (Ford’s) has been privately “in tatters” for years due to the trauma caused by Kavanaugh, as is the case with most victims of sexual assault. Most people associate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with U.S. combat veterans, which makes sense because we’re seeing epidemic levels of drug abuse and suicide among veterans since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But did you know that the majority of people who suffer from PTSD are not veterans? According to the National Center for PTSD, women are more likely to be diagnosed than men. This is because sexual assault is one of the most traumatizing things that can happen to a person and it’s a common experience among women. Reports indicate that
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nearly one-third of sexual assault survivors will experience PTSD in their lifetime. Considering that conservative estimates show one in six women and one in 33 men will experience sexual assault, it becomes clear that we need to expand the conversation (and research) to include them. I have PTSD as a result of the sexual abuse I experienced throughout my childhood. In addition to the psychological issues I have to manage, I also deal with the trauma stored in my body. The physical manifestations of PTSD are rarely discussed, but many autoimmune disorders can be traced back to childhood trauma. I was 23 when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammation disorder that typically affects older adults. I’ve been on and off prescription drugs and selfmedicated in many different ways over the years, but cannabis has by far been the healthiest and most effec-
tive substance I’ve used to alleviate my symptoms. I was on edge, hyper vigilant, paranoid and going through bouts of insomnia caused by nightmares all throughout my teens and early 20s. When I moved to Boulder in 2012 and could finally access medical-grade cannabis, it was a game-changer. I thought I was just smoking it for fun, but those were some of the first times I was able to actually sleep through the night that didn’t involve chasing Xanax with liquor. After years of smoking almost every day, I rarely dream at all anymore and that benefits me greatly. Sometimes I get triggered by certain places and situations that give me an unshakeable paranoia that I’m about to be assaulted. Smoking cannabis is the fastest way for me to calm down and avoid sending my body into flight or fight mode. There are other drugs I can take, but nothing provides me with such instant relief. My triggers and flashbacks have decreased in severity and frequency since cannabis has become part of my lifestyle. A lot of people have stories like mine, but because of the legal issues around the plant, there’s little hard evidence on cannabis as a treatment for PTSD experienced by sexual assault survivors. Groups like Survivors for Cannabis (@survivorsforcannabis on Instagram) create a space for survivors of sexual trauma who choose cannabis as treatment, as well as advocate for research and work to remove the many layers of stigma around cannabis, mental illness, sexual violence and survival. In today’s political climate where known predators are allowed to hold the highest offices in this country, our voice as a community is as critical as ever. Don’t be afraid to spark up and speak up.
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by Paul Danish
The great Boulder County ganja price war
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ow! It’s a flashback! It reminds me what it was like when I was growing up in Denver in the ’50s. Back then, gasoline price wars would periodically break out
among the filling stations. One chain of stations would cut its prices, and then the others would follow and sometimes cut theirs even more. At their height you could get gas for seven or eight cents a gallon (about 70 cents a
gallon in today’s dollars). Today it’s pot. There’s a marijuana price war going on out there. It’s been brewing for months, but in September it really erupted. Boulder County recreational marijuana dispensaries are fiercely competing on price. In September a number of dispensaries started posting deals on flower for below $100 an ounce. In some cases well below. And the trend has continued into October. The lowest price I could find as of late last week was $49 an ounce, plus tax. Other dispensaries had $69-or $79-an-ounce offerings. Virtually everyone in town had something on sale for under $100 an ounce. Prices on concentrates and edibles are down too. Awesome. Far out. Far out squared and cubed. Consider this: From 1968 to Jan. 1, 2014 (when legal marijuana sales started in Colorado), the price of pot always went up, never down. Or so it seemed. In 1968, about the time marijuana use in the U.S. first explod-
ed, you could get an ounce, commonly called a lid back then, for $20-$30. I just ran those prices through an online inflation calculator. They work out to $140-$211 an ounce in 2017 dollars. In other words, thanks to the current price war, today’s legal dope is cheaper than 1960s illegal pot when you adjust for inflation — even after you add in taxes. And its orders of magnitude higher quality ganja. That $20-to$30 weed came with a substantial portion of seeds — and whatever mold happened to be present in the hold of smuggler’s boat. Potency and quality varied wildly. Sinsemilla was called lawyer’s dope and sold for two or three times as much. Today virtually all weed is sinsemilla. It’s tragic that Jack Herrar didn’t live to see this day. So what’s caused the price war to break out? The gasoline price wars of the 1950s were probably driven by a glut of product and newly opened gas stations fighting for market share. Just guessing, but similar factors may be at play in the local marijuana market. By the 1970s, gas shortages, driven by OPEC price-fixing and falling domestic production, were the order of the day and gas wars were a distant memory. Marijuana price competition
may stay around longer. Marijuana growers are already more efficient than they were five years ago and are certain to get more efficient still as the full weight of state-ofthe-art scientific agriculture is brought to bear on pot growing. Which means producers and retailers can cut prices and still have a decent profit margin. Beyond that, the marijuana market has enormous room for expansion. Only about 15 percent of adult Coloradans used marijuana in the past year, compared with four or five times that many who used alcohol. Marijuana is an obvious competitor with alcohol, and it has already begun to take customers from the booze business. It will take more if it can compete on price Currently there are a lot more booze-sellers than pot-sellers in town. There are probably a couple hundred businesses licensed to sell alcoholic beverages in Boulder, compared with under 20 marijuana dispensaries. If state law is changed to allow marijuana to be sold in coffee shops and restaurants, which will probably happen in a few years, pot availability will balloon. The local marijuana market could dramatically expand if the price comes down and more retail outlets open. That may mean that price competition is here to stay.
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