From the category archives:

community

Denver Skate Park piece by Corky Scholl

November 21, 2008

Dreampark

Proposition 8 Is Wrong In Ways You Might Not Expect

November 6, 2008

I’ve been hearing from friends in San Francisco that California Proposition 8—also know as Prop H8TE—has passed.
California’s Proposition 8 states thus:
Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
Something is very wrong with this proposition, and not for reasons you might expect. The biggest issue I see with far-reaching legal [...]

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San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders Stands Up For Marriage Equality

November 2, 2008

As pointed out by a friend:
This is a truly amazing, heartfelt public statement. This guy was clearly struggling with some deeply conflicting emotions in making the decision he made.
I recommend that anyone who’s still feeling that politics has degenerated into a series of cold, calculated power moves and perpetual campaigning (this can’t be a good [...]

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Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail … Management Can Be a Tool of Holistic Design

October 22, 2008

Corporations who play this game of economic musical chairs are in for a rude awakening – because the music just stopped.
This, a pithy line from Umair Haque’s take on the world financial crisis happening right now, sums it up. To put a finer point on it, he says this:
the macro crisis isn’t really a financial [...]

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Colorado Secretary of State Disenfranchising THOUSANDS of New Voters

October 5, 2008

Wade Norris writes on The Daily Kos that “Secretary of State of Colorado, Mike Coffman is engaging in activities that would make it easy to steal Colorado’s votes, and the national election, for McCain.” It all comes down to a technicality that a little dubious and far, far from the spirit of the law. It affects many people voting for the first time ever, particularly in the black community.

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DJ Shissla: Mixes + Downloads

September 30, 2008

DJ Jim “Shissla” Shissler has a new website up at Shissla.com. A longtime collaborator with pARTicipate and a host of other art events, he’s also a kickass underground DJ. You can find some of Shissla’s music mixes for download here.

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The Denver Community Museum (+ pecha kucha)

September 29, 2008

I haven’t been to the Denver Community Museum yet, but the concept sounds awesome! Every month a new challenge is issued for people to submit their works. This month it’s globes, next month, mummies!
The contents of the Denver Community Museum are generated entirely by submissions from the local community. Exhibitions will change on a monthly [...]

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What’s the Walk Score in Your Neighborhood?

September 28, 2008

See how walkable your neighborhood is with Walk Score.

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City Data

September 28, 2008

Learn all kinds of things about various cities. It’s chock-a-block with stats … a little dry, but informative:
City-data.com

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