http://www.redstonereview.com News for all the rest of us Thu, 17 May 2012 17:57:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-will-hold-a-public-hearing-on-5-acre-rule/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-will-hold-a-public-hearing-on-5-acre-rule/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:36:05 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2973 LYONS – After going over a first reading of an ordinance to amend sections of the municipal code which required all annexations over 5 acres, not owned by the town, to go to a vote of the people, the new ordinance was tabled and a public hearing to be held on January 30 was cancelled. A public in put meeting will be held on the 5 acre rule, but it has not been scheduled yet.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-will-hold-a-public-hearing-on-5-acre-rule/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-has-a-new-intern-working-at-town-hall/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-has-a-new-intern-working-at-town-hall/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:31:54 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2970 LYONS – “The biggest thing for me is to learn how everything here operates in the public sector,” said Jeremy Matsen, who was recently chosen from eight student candidates to become the new Town of Lyons intern. “This is really new to me,” he added. “I have worked in small business and done construction work.” Matsen, 32, will be working for Lyons for two years while he completes his master of arts degree in political science with an emphasis on public policy at the University of Colorado in Denver. He plans to graduate in 2014.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-has-a-new-intern-working-at-town-hall/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/reconsideration-of-the-5-acre-vote-requirement/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/reconsideration-of-the-5-acre-vote-requirement/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:26:03 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2966 LYONS – In the late 1990s, one of the main land-use issues facing Lyons was how to control growth and in particular limit the expansion of residential growth. The 1998 Comprehensive Plan called for the establishment of open space buffers around Lyons and emphasized the risks of sprawl. In that time period, there were several additional housing developments wanting to annex into Lyons, including upper Stone Canyon, other hillside developments and the potential for 500 new homes on the Olson property on Red Gulch Road. There were very few zoning and regulatory tools in place to provide safeguards. In response to an advisory question asked to the voters, in 2000 the Board of Trustees, BOT, put in place a restriction that any annexation over 5 acres would need to be subject to a vote, except for town-owned land.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/reconsideration-of-the-5-acre-vote-requirement/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-wins-pinnacle-award-and-new-bus-route-opens/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-wins-pinnacle-award-and-new-bus-route-opens/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:21:41 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2964 LYONS – Lyons EcoPass program has received a Boulder County Pinnacle Award. Every year, the Boulder County Commissioners review the year’s projects, looking for outstanding achievements in service, innovation, public involvement, teamwork, and sustainability. From the 13 finalist projects, five Pinnacle Awards were given in five different fields. The Lyons EcoPass project was selected in the Stewardship and Sustainability category. This project was a first-ever communitywide EcoPass program, and is now being modeled by others, including Nederland. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/lyons-wins-pinnacle-award-and-new-bus-route-opens/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/japans-journey-the-next-steps-part-2-continued-from-last-month/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/japans-journey-the-next-steps-part-2-continued-from-last-month/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:08:56 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2957 LYONS – In the weeks after the tsunami, it became clear that the nuclear power plants at Fukushima were going to become a long-term problem. Harumi Noguchi of Kamakura wrote about the effect on Tokyo. She described the change in light and sound, noting that the bright neon glitter was gone. Restaurants would dim the lights, even serving by candlelight. She noticed that this was not only tolerable, but actually really pleasant. Her conclusion is that so much of our electric use is far beyond what we really need, and that this event gives us the opportunity to change our use of resources. Of course, this goes for the world as a whole, and even as the lights come back on, the debate grows. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/japans-journey-the-next-steps-part-2-continued-from-last-month/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/few-things-ignite-more-controversy-than-genetically-engineered-food-part-i-gmos-and-the-future-of-food/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/few-things-ignite-more-controversy-than-genetically-engineered-food-part-i-gmos-and-the-future-of-food/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:00:16 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2954 LONGMONT – Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, genetic engineering, GE, and anti-GMO stories seem to be in the news nearly every day. The record would seem to indicate that concerns about GMOs are leading to anxiety and growing unease. But aren’t genetically engineered foods substantially equivalent to the foods we’ve been eating for the past 12,000 years? Haven’t we been tinkering with carrots and beans and food crops all over the world, for all sorts of reasons, for a very long time? Why worry about GMOs? The U.S. government says GMOs are substantially equivalent and therefore healthy.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/few-things-ignite-more-controversy-than-genetically-engineered-food-part-i-gmos-and-the-future-of-food/feed/ 1 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/the-euro-experiment-is-failing/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/the-euro-experiment-is-failing/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:44:13 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2952 LYONS – About a year ago I wrote a two part series for the Redstone Review called The Crumbling Euro. I discussed how the euro, as a currency idea, was falling apart. In the column I said the following: “Right now the bond market and bond investors hold the key. If they decide to push Italy’s and Spain’s yields to the levels of Ireland or Greece, we’ll see the euro fall dramatically vs. the dollar and safe haven assets such as gold will likely soar. It is also likely that investors seeking safety will flock to U.S. treasuries, pushing their yields down, at least for a while.”]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/the-euro-experiment-is-failing/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/this-is-it-the-year-the-mayan-calendar-ends/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/this-is-it-the-year-the-mayan-calendar-ends/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:31:35 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2949 PUEBLO – Greetings, fellow travelers on spaceship Earth, that marvelous blue ball on which we each and all live for a time as it runs round and round in circles within circles. Well, that just sounds stupid. Let me try again. Jovial January, everyone! Worse. This is ridiculous. Look, all I want to do is wish you all a “Happy New Year” – but I can’t. The most I could do is wish you all a “Happy 11 Months” – after that, who knows? No, I’m not talking about the results of the presidential election, though that could make more than a few folks in this country want to jump off the nearest bridge.]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/this-is-it-the-year-the-mayan-calendar-ends/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/proposed-change-to-conservation-easement-threatens-lyons-wildlife-habitat-and-all-future-conservation-easements/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/proposed-change-to-conservation-easement-threatens-lyons-wildlife-habitat-and-all-future-conservation-easements/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:25:25 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2946 LYONS – Two miles outside Lyons, up Highway 36 toward Estes Park, is a pristine 1,500-acre property. Deer and elk regularly pass through; elk bugle there every fall. Bobcats and coyotes roam the property. Mountain lions and bears occasionally make an appearance. And it’s one of the only known nesting sites for pinyon jays in northern Colorado. The property made it through the past two decades without being developed because Boulder County purchased a series of conservation easements on it in the 1990s. Now the county is considering rewriting those easements to allow construction of a 6,000-square-foot home on the property. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/03/proposed-change-to-conservation-easement-threatens-lyons-wildlife-habitat-and-all-future-conservation-easements/feed/ 0 http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/02/town-residents-will-vote-on-medical-marijuana-centers/ http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/02/town-residents-will-vote-on-medical-marijuana-centers/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:11:25 +0000 Richard http://www.redstonereview.com/?p=2926 LYONS – In April Lyons residents will vote on whether they want to keep medical marijuana centers, formerly called dispensaries, open in Lyons, or whether they want to close all the shops, ban any new grow facilities and marijuana centers, and follow the lead of Longmont and Fort Collins. ]]> http://www.redstonereview.com/2012/02/town-residents-will-vote-on-medical-marijuana-centers/feed/ 0