Posts Tagged ‘daily camera’
Our Newspaper and Property Taxes
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken The local newspaper is [...]
Printing Turkeys
I'm just wondering why the editor of our local newspaper would print such a turkey: "On Thanksgiving, Tell Activists To Stuff It" by David Martosko, as a Guest Opinion this holiday season? What festive cheer to attack PETA, People for the Ethical [...]
Tax Assessment vs. Listing Price
The Camera recently has made an issue of the difference between the County Assessor’s valuation of our house ($835,000) and the listing price ($2.1 million). We bought the home in which we live at 1680 Wilson Court in 1988. The assertion made in [...]
“Council Seeking Budget Boost”… or not
I guess I’ve about had it with our local hometown newspaper. You can imagine my surprise when I saw the headline for a front page article in the Camera a couple of days ago. Council seeks a budget increase? A 27% budget increase, no less, [...]
Revenge Journalism
The day after Macon Cowles criticized and corrected a Boulder Daily Camera article about the proposed City budget (via the Hotline and reproduced below) the paper, in its front page article (Error Leads to Tax Discount, 8/24/2010) invented a scandal [...]
