Today's Denver Post reports on Golden taking another step towards acquiring the proposed HDTV tower. In a perfect world we wouldn't pick fights with adversaries that have pockets as deep as Lake Cedar Group's, nor would we pick fights with adversaries that control the media (or, as in Lake Cedar Group's case, actually are the [...]
[Continue reading…]City Council Webcasts Are Online
April 12, 2006
It took them a little while longer than expected but the webcast is now on the city's web site. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page. I haven't had a chance to do anything but skip around for a few minutes but what I saw looked and sounded pretty good. Now I know [...]
[Continue reading…]Community Meeting on GHS Parking and Traffic
April 11, 2006
Tomorrow night we are having a community meeting at Golden High School to discuss both student parking issues (during the part of the construction period when the high school lot will be unavailable) and the future of the intersection in front of the high school (24th and Jackson streets). On the latter, there seem to [...]
[Continue reading…]Public Art in Golden
April 8, 2006
I mentioned that one of our more colorful conversations at last week’s City Council meeting had to do with public art in Golden. The issue came up because of a proposal to install a new bronze statue at the north end of town adjacent to Highway 93. I asked for an explanation of the process [...]
[Continue reading…]What’s Next With the Helicopters?
April 8, 2006
I wanted to offer a few more thoughts and clarifications about the Rotors of the Rockies helicopter flights. First of all, I think it’s important that folks in the community understand that City Council did not approve either the ongoing service between Golden and DIA or the promotional event last Thursday. Had Rotors of the [...]
[Continue reading…]What's Next With the Helicopters?
April 8, 2006
I wanted to offer a few more thoughts and clarifications about the Rotors of the Rockies helicopter flights. First of all, I think it’s important that folks in the community understand that City Council did not approve either the ongoing service between Golden and DIA or the promotional event last Thursday. Had Rotors of the [...]
[Continue reading…]Pothole Hotline Contest
April 7, 2006
I believe next week is the last week of the city’s 2006 Pothole Hotline Contest. Every week the Public Works Department awards a prize to the person reporting the largest pothole that week. The largest pothole as of the beginning of this week was 24” x 30”, which seems rather large to me. I think [...]
[Continue reading…]TV Time at City Hall
April 7, 2006
We did it – our first televised City Council meeting. The DVDs and web download version won’t be available until Monday, though, so those of us who were on tv won’t have a chance to see how it looked until then. A few folks sent emails last night saying they thought it worked well but [...]
[Continue reading…]Effectively Reaching Out to City Council
April 5, 2006
I energetically welcome folks in the community reaching out to me and to the rest of City Council. I think being accessible to the folks we represent is a critical part of our job. That said, there are more and less effective ways to communicate with your City Council representatives, and I thought I would [...]
[Continue reading…]Golden City Council Goes Live
April 4, 2006
At long last, we’ll start broadcasting City Council study sessions and regular meetings on Comcast cable channel 8. You can watch live at 7 p.m. on most Thursday nights, and Comcast is planning to rebroadcast the meetings at various times of day throughout the rest of the week. It’s funny to think that we’ll have [...]
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