Cascadia financing repeal question should be put on ballot
Thank you for continuing to run stories on land development. I am a consulting engineer, and land development pays my bills.
This letter is to clarify a detail around my interaction with the officers at Aims Community College while gathering ballot petition signatures, covered in the article “Petitioners against Cascadia financing blocked from gathering signatures.”
We spoke to David Vogl, the supervisor of Campus Safety & Security, and a sheriff’s deputy. We explained our position that the campus is a public forum, and Mr. Vogl explained his position. He gave us information on how to contact Aims’ MARCOM for permission to collect signatures at future events, and provided MARCOM’s phone number and hours of operation.
I don’t remember either officer saying they would press charges. I would have left immediately. There must be something like the children’s game “telephone” that happened in our communication chain.
I am usually on the developer’s side on unpopular projects; I do engineering for frack pads. These projects generate jobs that grow Colorado’s economy.
It is crazy that the city of Greeley asks taxpayers to fund the Cascadia project. Normally, projects are funded by developers, including public infrastructure such as roads, water mains and sewer mains. The city maintains these public improvements after they are installed, but normally, my clients install or improve them.
The city signed a site lease agreement to fund the initial phase of the project in May, which mortgaged numerous buildings and two golf courses to get $115 million. Let’s put repeal of Ordinance 15-2025 on the ballot to see what the taxpayers of Greeley think of paying rent on City Hall, the Police Department, three fire stations, the Funplex, the Rodarte Center, Ice Haus, Highland and Boomerang Golf Courses, the Train Depot, Twin Rivers Softball Complex, and more.
Lisa Denke, Greeley
Cuts to FEMA and NOAA hurt all Americans
“There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.” (science.nasa.gov.). We can expect more serious natural disasters, such as floods and wildfires. (nrdc.org and noaa.gov).
Many people remember the loss of 144-plus lives in the 1976 Big Thompson Flood (1976bigthompsonflood.org) and the rapid response from NOAA (weather.gov). I wasn’t in Colorado then, but in 2016, my Baton Rouge house flooded. I remember FEMA (founded in 1979) responding immediately to Louisiana’s crisis, providing safe shelters for victims like me and handling first aid and food needs efficiently. NOAA also responded quickly, attributing the extreme precipitation to climate change (usgs.gov). “Slow-moving storm systems” had precipitated (literally) both the Big Thompson and the Baton Rouge events.
Following budget and staffing cuts this year to FEMA and NOAA (with more cuts promised), and after devastating flooding in Texas, many people, including 36 young children, were not notified, evacuated or rescued in a timely manner, resulting in 134-plus dead, 37 of them children, and three still missing, presumed dead. One mother of an 8-year-old camper reported receiving a letter from her daughter — after the child was deceased!
Usgs.gov predicts more frequent floods and wildfires caused by climate change. Wildfires are currently burning in western Colorado, while potential firefighters are reassigned to arrest immigrants, legal or not, for deportation to El Salvador, war-torn South Sudan, or Alligator Alcatraz! Who knows who will work in our fields? Work in our restaurants?
Republicans are paying the price as often as Democrats since dramatic cuts to budgets and services hurt all Americans. Only billionaires will amass more wealth.
How will we stop the madness? I urge all Americans to educate yourselves on the facts, not rampant propaganda, and “Vote as if your life depended on it.” Because it does!
Jean Mondello, Loveland
Trump promised a vibrant economy, and he’s not delivering
Waste comes from the top down. It is called the trickle effect.
We are now living in a time of economic reform when it is not needed. The president has lied about the state of the American economy long before he was elected to a second term.
Economic growth had slowly recovered under a Biden administration with multiple injections of spending to keep us afloat. By reversing the momentum of an improving economy, Donald Trump has continued to promote that the economy was trashed under Biden, and only Trump’s policies will prove productive.
After almost six months in office, the truth is clear. We can continue to let the lies of the president push us into deeper waters, or we can ask for a congressional investigation into economic stagnation and inflation caused by the economic policy of the U.S. president regarding his tariff policies. Trump promised that he would rid the U.S. of fraud, corruption and waste. Now, his own actions endorse it. Ridding the U.S. of foreign immigrants will go the way of Prohibition. It is not what Americans care about anymore.
Trump promised a vibrant economy, and he’s not delivering.
Bob Grimes, Windsor
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