Projecting Ones Morals Onto "Society"

Robert and Catharine Pierce are naturalists living in a Boulder (CO) housing project, operated by a non-profit that receives some city funds.

The couple have been involved in mediation with the housing authority for the past few months over Ms. Pierce's propensity for gardening topless. Last year, apparently she'd choose to "worship" wearing pasties and a thong, while this spring, she's done done away with the upper modesty garments taking it down to just a thong.

State and local law prohibits the display of genitalia, but has no provisions for exposed breasts except at one local lake, which had become a haven for nudists decades ago.

The City Council is scheduled to vote on a revamped ordinance in April, but a ban on exposed female nipples has been removed from the original draft, most likely due to constitutional, discriminatory concerns and the involvement of the ACLU.

Judging from the quotes gathered by the Daily Camera in the video below, along with those expressed in both articles and the reader comments, it seems that pretty much everyone other than Betsey Martens, executive director of the Boulder Housing Authority has a live-and-let-live, more-power-to-you type of stance.

In fact, reading through the comments, not only do I see overwhelming support for the Pierces, but I also also see someone lamenting that coeds aren't into the practice and another giving a location for such a site, along with a nice review of Spanish beaches.

Lede: Colorado Wants the California Treatment

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers trying to regulate the state's medical marijuana industry is calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to stop raids of medical marijuana operations, saying the raids are making it harder to create rules to keep tabs on the booming industry.

Denver Post

Goose, Gander, Tax

The Denver Post recently published an editorial supportive of lifting some state tax exemptions. While I don't have a position on every provision and am actually a little confused by their suggested by-product benefit of taxing paper bags and napkins, I do have to take umbrage at a Republican Senator's attempt to tax newspapers.

After all isn't the 'net mantra, "information should be free"?

Quickie: When Aliens Attack

Patrons in a Colorado Springs (CO) bar last Wednesday were surprised, when they heard a loud boom and a four inch hole opened in the roof, down through the ceiling.

The hole was clearly made from the roof down, which meant it wasn’t caused by gunfire in the bar, and there’s no burn marks or signs of high heat that would indicate lightning.

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Teaching to the Test

Perhaps they're not quite panic-stricken, but residents and leaders of Vail (CO) are concerned enough about their third-place ranking in the annual Ski Magazine Reader Resort Survey, they've had a Town Council retreat to plot strategy and have another scheduled for January.

It seems that for 14 of the past 21 years, Vail was at the top of the list.

The prior two years, Utah's Deer Valley had won the poll and Vail was second, a position they've traditionally held when not in the top spot, but now Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia has slipped ahead.

Initially, there seemed to be some surprise at the rumors and the resort company issued a statement highlighting their internal customer satisfaction numbers, plus they pointed out that there's a myriad of polls. Then, a columnist wrote a lighthearted piece, which good-naturedly focused on the poll's non-scientific nature and now, the city is discussing ways and programs to get themselves back on top.

In my mind, reader's surveys give the consumer a nice little box to read about everything ranked and the local tourism bureaus get something to put in an ad, but maybe in this instance, Ski Magazine and its readers should also take some pride about their power within the industry.