Many Chaffee County citizens gathered at John Held auditorium Saturday night to listen to Amy Goodman speak. She was on a long weekend whirlwind tour of Colorado and came to Salida from Carbondale, Paonia to Crested Butte via snowmobile. Amy spoke on recent uprisings around the world and attempts stifle the truth. Democracy Now circumvented the shutdown of satellite links, that hamstrung mainstream media and reduced them to using skype,by utilizing the Internet in ways that worked around censorship. My wife was viewing Egyptian news through a facebook page of a college friend who had lived in Egypt for many years. Your local radio station, KHEN-LP, receives all of it's syndicated content through website downloads or by mailed CD. It is possible access the truth of events in many different ways. What is harder is to sort through the noise and find what is true vs what someone wants to sell as truth. In the end it is the actions speak the truth. In the end it is the attention of everyone and sharing of this attention that illuminates these actions for all to see.
About a year ago I started down the path to run for Chaffee County Commissioner. I didn't win but at least I can now spell commissioner. But what I gained the most during the campaign was a knowledge of how many people in Chaffee County are involved in wonderful community sustaining organizations. I felt that again on Saturday.
Tuesday, the 8th of March, there is public meeting on the changes to our county land use codes. This process is now in it's 14th year. It has been stalled and worked around so a minority view, as represented by public input on our new comprehensive plan, can have the votes to prevent much of what a majority wants from occurring. I know that is a run-on sentence but so is this process. It would behoove the citizens of Chaffee County to be as many as possible at the meeting tomorrow to represent all interest in this important process. I have a conflict but I encourage everyone who can to attend.
About a year ago I started down the path to run for Chaffee County Commissioner. I didn't win but at least I can now spell commissioner. But what I gained the most during the campaign was a knowledge of how many people in Chaffee County are involved in wonderful community sustaining organizations. I felt that again on Saturday.
Tuesday, the 8th of March, there is public meeting on the changes to our county land use codes. This process is now in it's 14th year. It has been stalled and worked around so a minority view, as represented by public input on our new comprehensive plan, can have the votes to prevent much of what a majority wants from occurring. I know that is a run-on sentence but so is this process. It would behoove the citizens of Chaffee County to be as many as possible at the meeting tomorrow to represent all interest in this important process. I have a conflict but I encourage everyone who can to attend.
