The Council and other city officials are too staid and button-down. I've known Tom since high school; he's not the type to back down. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Resign and let real people like Tom and Lonergan get elected.

Enough already!! Why should tax payers be forced to support professional sports. How dare these team owners expect poor tax payers
to help pay these outrageous salaries of basketball players as well as other pro sports. Is it nice to have a pro basketball team - yes. Does it increase the quality of my life - NO!! Would I be devestated if we didn't have a pro basketball team - H___ NO!!! We have great quality college basketball teams and high school teams that we can get behind. Good golly Miss Molly, lets get real and spend our tax dollars where they will do some good. Ron Eggimann

It's amazing to me that some elected people are going give a gift to those who choose to abuse the body and mind with homosexual sex. Those acts are nothing but a choice, and when you choose to act that way you are saying to the world help me I'm sick, I don't know how to live. They need help, not to be told that there acts are worthy of the force of law. Besides the ones who are discriminated against are those who support[real] family and [real] freedom yet we arn't demanding that government protect us from those left wing hateful people who undermine us.

The current test for graduation (known as WASL) has become just one more barrier for students who face numerous challenges in the public school system. It is a one-size-fits-all test for a one-size-fits-all system.

God help you if you are not sending a one-size-fits-all student out the door and into the factory each morning.

The sorting and sifting begins at the school house door and we are able to plan early in a student's career to either build a prison cell or save a slot for college, to accommodate their future. You can decide which is more expensive.

Each and every student should have the opportunity to receive an education in our public schools. But a student who does not fit the mold in this assembly line system, those who are different and cannot find a way to fit into the big machine, become rejected parts. The words "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" don't seem to apply to them, once they've entered the school building.

So you heard all this "I can go out now to my favorite place" and not have to worry about those nasty smokers.

Wow ! All these places are doing less and less business and they are waiting with open arms all these so called non-smokers.

Where are they?

Ya think it was all talk?

What has happened to our great country and the freedoms that we have become so use to. Now they are banning our freedom of choice and our right to smoke....Christine Gregoire....this message is for you. If you are so concerned about the affect smoking has on smokers....then maybe we should ban alcohol as well...as it kills millions, damages entire families....adds hundreds of thousands to tent cities...causes more accidental deaths than any other factor...Or how about banning gays in public offices....their actions are immoral and lead to the rise of Aids and other diseases which kills billi

An old woman is knocked to the ground and trampled as a crowd races past; one person turns to help her and is swept away in the mob, only to be injured himself. Two other men begin to beat and kick each other; soon the violence escalates into what has been described as a “small riot

What I want to know is, why has'nt there been a legal team assembled to fight back against this voter action smoking ban?? This can be appealed to the court system. Look at Oregon's Assisted Suicide law, it was voter approved, and now, it is before the US Supreme Court. What gets me, is the the law states no smoking in ANY indoor workplace! Doesnt smoking indoors still constitute a health hazard at Indian Casino's?? I myself had no clue that smoke had a choice on wheter to harm white folks, black folks, or Indian folks. I understand that the Indian tribes are sovereign nations, but when they

I’m with you Boulder. I am all for the government being my mommy and daddy. You see I know - like you - that people have no choice in where they work or where they go out for entertainment. Oh lets not forget that there are so few establishments to pick from that are non-smoking. Yep we do not need the personal responsibility of choice because we have mommy and daddy dictating how we should behave. And without the responsibility of choice, we could care less that we give up some of the basic foundations this county was built on-cause-our clothing gets stinky. I am with you Boulder - right to the front door.

I look forward to patronizing some of these "new" old establishments. Many of these restaurants that previously allowed smoking have good food but lost my business years ago. I just got tired of coming home smelling like a burnt pack of cigarettes