Laughable Boulder

Rocks don't change and neither should Boulder.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

It's 6:00pm on Tuesday: time for another #Boulder City Council Circus

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

and Boulder city council would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling reporters @shayshinecastle, @djswearingen, @meltzere, @alex_burness

[Deborah Swearingen @djswearingen]

Exactly 2 years ago today, I covered my first #Boulder City Council meeting. It was the budget hearing, the same thing I'm covering tonight. It feels as good a time as any to share that tn will be my last time covering council. Tomorrow is my final day at the Daily Camera.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

1,000 people? What about 1,000 prairie dogs on Zoom?

3 minutes of squeaking for every public comment.

No, we will not clarify about how that's different from the status quo.

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

Lord, can you imagine a 1,000-person city council meeting? I shudder to think.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Is it Throwback Thursday?

https://t.co/PZIQ0SluvE

It's throwback Thursday.

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

And if it didn't happen when a councilwoman compared killing prairie dogs to the Holocaust, it ain't ever happening.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

@shayshinecastle

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

@shayshinecastle Wait until you see our budget for candles!

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Parks & Rec $150
Climate $200
Transportation $250
Police $800
Open Space $35,583,000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my city is dying

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

Parks & Rec has a maintenance backlog of $20.5M. That's a bit bigger than when I wrote this story in 2018(!) https://t.co/o2KSZ2mwJX

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Who's excited to listen to more public testimony? Bob and Mark are excited, that's who.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Checking in on Yates and Wallach

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Most everyone supports creating a library district, but we hear Pomerance is calling the NIMBY army for back up.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

I don't support the library district in Boulder but I would vote for a library district in Longmont

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Counting the pro-library supporters tonight has us singing

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

Yates with an important clarifying question: If council/commissioners don't form a district by resolution, a petition doesn't *automatically* form a district — it puts the question to voters.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Oh, look who finally showed up to the meeting.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Gather 'round, children. Bob Yates has a message for the younger generation.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Life will be different under the Library District regime, comrades

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Look at this Boulder. Libraries are friggin' awesome. Heck yes we should have more of them.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Mark Wallach knows we should fund libraries but can't think of an easier way to do it

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

Wallach: How many city dept are being funded at the "vision" level of their master plans? (As 3.8 mills would do for the library)

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

How rich Boulderites believe libraries should be funded

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Every time you buy from Amazon instead of supporting the #Boulder Library, money leaves our community and you take an opportunity away from another child

[Shay Castle @shayshinecastle]

Legal proceedings are just grown men sniping at each other like children, but with more formal language.

[Laughable Boulder @laughablebldr]

Game recognizes game.

[Eric Budd @ericmbudd]

an anonymous reader has explained the historic value of Boulder's Millennium Hotel