An opportunity to create a country for us all
In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo.” After too many years of piecemeal and superficial advances in America’s racial policies, we are at a moment when this radical change is truly possible. From the massive Black Lives Matter protests, to the way COVID-19 has upended every aspect of our lives, to the questioning of the role of police in society, to the widespread reconsideration of racist and offensive symbols and emblems, we have already changed so much. Today we stand at a crossroads. Will we seize the unique opportunity we have been given and finally create a country for all of us, or will we let this moment pass us by? I, for one, will work for the former. I hope you will join me.
Alexandra Lessem
Loveland
Opposed to downtown common consumption area
Hello, neighbors and friends. This may be an unpopular position, but I am totally against CCA (common consumption area) in Old Town Loveland.
I have lived in Colorado since 1961 and made Loveland my permanent home in 2003 because it still had that charm that I remembered in my youth.
I am getting really tired of special interest groups and outsiders who come to live in Loveland and want to turn it into the place they left behind.
Loveland is growing, and that isn’t going to stop, but I want to preserve that old town charm that is slipping away. I think they should keep the common consumption out of Old Town Loveland.
I have friends who live on the south end of town, and I usually drive up and down on U.S. 287. I don’t look forward to dodging more drinkers, not to mention drivers who have had a few too many and have a belligerent attitude. Haven’t we all seen enough empty drinking containers and cigarette butts that these people frequently leave behind? I would like to extend an olive branch and give the option to go to Fort Collins or Greeley or anywhere else but here to blow off a little steam.
Thanks for letting me have my say. That’s my 2 cents. Retirement is good! Freedom of speech is good! I used to hate old people; now I am one.
Maybe that was a nickel’s worth.
Gregory Zupon
Loveland
Reason to be a better citizen
Yesterday was the Fourth of July, our nation’s Independence Day. Flags, celebrations, families embracing each other again after so many months of “safe” hugs. Do any of you (other than mothers, husbands, sons, daughters) realize that your next-door neighbor, the person across the street, offered themselves up as a barrier to all those who wish us gone. They don’t want a parade, a banner, a movie. They accepted the responsibility to make us safe. Make us better. No questions asked. Nothing.
Thank them by being a better citizen. Be a better person. Look at your neighbor, look at the one delivering your mail, the kid with all the tattoos, the person that doesn’t think the same way you do. You are here because of them.
Fred Netherda
Loveland
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