As has been referenced in comments earlier, there is a website called What's In It For Longmont? that focuses on the whole Lifebridge annexation issue. Details go back to April 2007. That one issue can provide the energy for so much rebuttal by one source is worthy of a story itself. Some fans of planning issues would likely be intrigued at the concurrency request of the developers - approve all exemptions in a sweeping decision, instead of individual vetting as issues came forward. Asking Longmont to pay for their $5 million firehouse? Exemptions from affordable housing requirements? What IS in it for Longmont?
That's not all that's happening in the realm of activists Longmonters.
Paul Tiger, a candidate for Longmont has recently written an article extolling the necessary virtue of recognizing you can vote, registering to vote and then actually voting. Plus his passionate challenging of a construction flagger made the Camera's editorial page, highlighting his more libertarian views regarding handgun possesion. (Update: felony menacing charges dropped; misdemeanor is the plea.)
The site Wrongmont.com continues to flare up with comments about both local and national issues. (You may have noticed occasional postings by Wrongmont on the East BoCo blog, here's the most recent.) The details to topics have become more and more pertinent and interesting, such as the Longmont 2007 election info and its subsequent link to another Longmonter's website, and his overview of the candidates in Longmont.
In today's Times Call the outgoing Mayor Julia Pirnack is on the front page describing her need to step away and "regain her faith in the public process and in people." (But holy cow I loathe sending anyone to that website...)
What else, Longmonters? Where is is the debate alive on the internet? Who you going to vote for?
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