What readers said this week
Here is a selection of comments on stories posted by the Times-call on its Facebook page Feb. 10-16.
Longmont’s Bohn Farm goes up for sale
TIMBO SLICE >> Great! More unaffordable housing? GORDON FREEMAN >> More urban sprawl for short term gains. Yay!
DARRELL SCHIFFER >> Who’s with me to raise enough money to keep it a farm? This is ridiculous. ROBIN WIELGOS >> Stop building!
KEVIN NORRIS >> Our county, and land owners, stopped this from happening.
DIANA HERVEY DAUGHERTY >> Bet the City Council had a notion that would happen.
Some Colorado communities scramble to help migrants; others ‘do not want to be Denver’ as crisis spreads
STEPHEN HAMPTON >> You meant illegal aliens, invaders. There, fixed it for ya.
Johnnie St. Vrain: The danger of a right turn on red at Collyer and Ninth
CHUCK SITERO >> Anyone who has taken a right there knows it’s a blind corner. No town is perfect. JULIE GRAEBER >> Someone needs to find something else to complain about. Wow.
KRISTI LEIGH >> Because people like to pull out slowly in front of traffic trying to do the speed limit. So instead of stopping and getting those people off the road they just punish everyone else by giving more rules.
JARED COSYLEON >> That’s liberal Boulder County for you.
KEITH ARMINTROUT >> I have lived in the Longmont area since 1972. If these new drivers can’t deal with the light at Ninth Avenue and Collyer, maybe their driver’s licenses should be turned in.
LEAH REBECCA >> This is truly an American problem. If a light is red, most other countries just wait. MEG PURNELL >> How about putting a roundabout there? That would slow people down going down Ninth Avenue.
I-76 westbound near Fort Morgan reopens after truck fire
CHELSIE POPE >> I saw that, and it was crazy.
Tee Cee’s Tip for Monday, Feb. 12
STEVEN SOUTH >> I’m frightened to share the planet with these people. I wish they took border security this seriously.
Liqueur makers in Lyons settle squabble over secret formula
THOMAS LAWSON >> Is it good?
Longmont to partner with Douglas County on armored vehicle
STEPHEN HAMPTON >> Uh, why not with a closer agency?
‘Solo’: CU Boulder professor embraces the single life in new book
JUDI WATSON >>
The man is on to something.
Ban on “assault” weapons is back as Colorado lawmakers target high-powered guns
JAMES HERRING >> Ah, Democrats. Nothing better to waste time on?
DAVID SWENSON >> How about enforcing the laws on the books or increasing penalties for using guns in crimes?
Five Below plans soft opening Feb. 19 in Longmont
BRIE RAMOS >> Super popular on the East Coast. It was my obsession for little cute decor in my first apartment.
KIMMY BOYD >> Exciting. What’s 5 below? Maybe we shouldn’t repost Times-call articles because no one can read them.
MARY KENT >> I’ve seen this store and assumed it was an outdoor camping type of store!
BILL MONTGOMERY >> I wonder where in Longmont.
More Coloradans can’t afford food, housing after end of pandemic protections, survey finds
JM BAUM >> Well, Bidenomics is working well. JUSTIN SAYEP >> Waiting to see all the heartless “They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps!” comments. If not here, we’ll see them on the call line.
Longmont police arrest a man near Union Reservoir
JIM PEREZ >> Maybe a militia training event? Freedumb!
Boulder officials say no to exploring Israel-hamas resolution
PAUL RENNIX >> Like a resolution from Boulder about matters on foreign soil would matter for anything.
Colorado will limit use of gas-powered landscaping equipment on public property
DIANE M CARNAHAN >> But we will let the “elites” fly their private planes all over creation!