Category Archives: Life

It was 20 years ago today…I nearly died

  By Chris Rodriguez | February 17, 2014 - 12:01 am |
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Recently on the internet there was reminiscing of the Northridge (California) Earthquake of 1994, including a faux play-by-play of it on Twitter.  We didn’t live too far from the epicenter, but far enough to not suffer any consequences of the quake.  I’d grown up in SoCal, earthquakes were nothing new, although now we were living with the San Andreas Fault within sight just a couple of miles away – so any quake made you wonder if it was the big one.  But what nearly killed me wasn’t this quake, it was something that happened exactly a month later. Continue reading →

The Longmont Years: 2012-2013 Airport Master Plan success, and plans to move

  By Chris Rodriguez | January 25, 2014 - 1:01 pm | , ,
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This is the final installation of the long and winding road of our activities while residing in Longmont, Colorado.  We pick up in early 2012 where we’d already talked about and even came close to moving 6 years prior, but I had one last piece of unfinished business before we left:  coming full circle back to the Vance Brand Airport, where it all began. Continue reading →

The Longmont Years: 2009-2011 Breaking the Bloc

  By Chris Rodriguez | January 23, 2014 - 5:25 pm | ,
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In this installment, we pick up in early 2009 after apparent local political burnout – or so I thought.  The previous two years were hectic, to say the least.  Output increased in quantity and quality, both in the written and spoken word.  By the end of ’08 I had gone back to one of my first loves: aviation.  But staying away from local politics was apparently not in the cards. Continue reading →

The Longmont Years: 2007-2008 YourHub, LifeBridge, The Bloc, Longmont Advocate, Vote!Longmont, and podcasting

  By Chris Rodriguez | January 5, 2014 - 8:19 pm | ,
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In the previous post, I talked about how we came to end up in Longmont and the beginnings of my (and our, including my wife) various activities there, specifically in the political arena.  This next section only covers 2 years, but insanely busy and active years they were, read on… Continue reading →

The Longmont Years: 2000-2006 Coming to Longmont, and Wrongmont

  By Chris Rodriguez | January 4, 2014 - 2:03 pm | , ,
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It’s not with a heavy heart, but actually a quite light and airy one, that we bid adieu to the city we’ve called home for the last 13+ years; Longmont, Colorado.  But fear not, I still have to work there for a few more years, live close enough to be affected by it, and may once in a while throw some tax dollars its way.  Happily I’ll be throwing less toward Boulder County. Continue reading →

Moving target

  By Chris Rodriguez | October 2, 2013 - 12:01 am | ,
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I always get a chuckle when one of the lefty screwballs in the area point out that I used to run this or that website, as if I’m ashamed of it.  (Hint: I’m not).  I even point out over there in the upper right-hand corner all of the former sites I’ve run throughout the years.  I’m glad to see the entries from those sites still get traffic.

Some may assume I had to change site names for one reason or another, that I had to dupe readers into thinking they were reading some new site from some new guy.  Of course the flaw in that logic is I sign my real name to all of the entries on those sites.  I changed site names over the years partly out of boredom, short attention span, strategy, whatever. Continue reading →

Percy Allen Conarroe, March 3, 1927 – June 15, 2013

  By Chris Rodriguez | July 4, 2013 - 11:32 pm | ,
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percyIt was an honor and privilege to call Percy Conarroe a friend and confidant.  If you’ve read this website or its earlier versions you saw that he was a contributor of great value.  He passed away recently at the age of 86.  In true Percy fashion, he didn’t want flowers but instead requested that you write a letter to the editor about something you care about.  I’ve tired of the local paper turning down my opinion pieces while they let far worse through, so being the editor of this website I’ll write here about something I care about – or in this case someone I cared about, Percy Conarroe. Continue reading →

Longmont Airport’s future more secure with recent developments

  By Chris Rodriguez | May 23, 2013 - 12:01 am | , ,
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With the unanimous approval by Longmont City Council of the new FBO (Fixed Based Operator) at Vance Brand Airport, the future of the airport becomes that much more secure, probably to the chagrin of those that have endlessly tried to undermine the airport for the last 20 years.   Continue reading →

Musings from the wilderness

  By Chris Rodriguez | May 8, 2013 - 11:27 am | ,
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Life is good, especially when you flush out those that never should have been part of your daily existence.  This includes former friends, political enemies, and even some that may be political allies.  The offers and requests for getting back into, or remaining in, the political game haven’t slowed, but my response has been the same: no thanks.  Like I said, life is good. Continue reading →

The importance of connections

  By Chris Rodriguez | May 26, 2010 - 6:01 am |
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People connect in all different kinds of ways.  Sometimes it’s friendship, or curiosity, or respect, or good old fashioned love-at-first-sight.  I try to recognize these as they’re occurring, and the common thread, for me, is that the person you’re connecting with is or will have an important impact on your life in one way or another.  It’s not easy to lose one of those people. Continue reading →