http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5The Lakewood City Council had a study session on December 17, 2007 at 7:00 PM in the Cabinet Room in the Civic Center. The first item up for discussion was what to do about Gary Meggison's request that the city council pass a ordinance to keep the Pro Life Picketers from picketing in his neighbo...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/Government/Story~406210.aspx12/19/2007 12:23:46 PMJames Esteban What would America look like in Lou Dobbs' world? Lou, I have never been inclined to be an activist for much of anything and I think that the reason for this is that when I look at things I often find that activism leads toward a kind of blindness that I just don't like. When I investigate an ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/Nation-World/Story~414348.aspx1/12/2008 12:10:15 PMJames Esteban My wife received a call recently from a "candidate x" supporter. He asked if she knew where her caucus was. She said no, and he said that he would send her an email with directions to her caucus location. The location he sent her was 20 miles away. We didn't believe it, so we checked it out f...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/Politics/Story~420678.aspx1/28/2008 10:41:08 AMJames Esteban The Weitz Company given permanent collaborator status On Feb. 1 the Weitz Company was given permanent collaborator status by a local Pro Life Group. The group led by Will Duffy and supported by several national pro life groups has vowed to picket the Weitz Company executive homes, constructio...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~424182.aspx2/4/2008 11:40:14 AMJames Esteban The long haul pro life activist and apparently opinionated radio talk show host Bob Enyart let me in behind the scenes yesterday. I was there visiting Will Duffy who I have just recently met as a result of learning more about the pro life residential picketing campaign against the Weitz Company w...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~424429.aspx2/4/2008 6:07:24 PMJames Esteban It's hard to miss the property at 14th and Wadsworth. It's like a beacon for the anti eminent domain activists these days. But actually, it's a nicely kept piece of property. If you stop by and get out of your car and walk around a bit you'll see signs of the battle of encroachment everywhere. Ma...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~425302.aspx2/6/2008 11:48:02 AMJames Esteban The regular meeting of the Lakewood City Planning Commission which occurred on February 6, 2008 at 7:00 PM in the Lakewood City Council Chambers was considerably less than impressive. From the beginning the atmosphere was informal, with chamber lights dimmed, the presiding officer Rick Urbanowski...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/General-News/Story~425905.aspx2/7/2008 11:41:24 AMJames Esteban On Feb. 12, Planned Parenthood came to Denver to visit the Weitz construction site of the new Planned Parenthood facility at 7155 E 38th Ave in Denver. The site has been termed AuschWeitz by the pro life leaders, who have acquired auschweitz.com as a new domain name which points to the same colla...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~428262.aspx2/13/2008 9:56:40 AMJames Esteban I was driving east on 13th Avenue just south of James J. Richey Park in Lakewood Tuesday February 19, 2008 at 2 PM in the afternoon. It was a sunny, warm and wonderful afternoon. I glanced at the park and several youth seem noticeably disturbed by my observation of them. I thought to myself, gee,...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/Story~431328.aspx2/20/2008 10:21:28 AMJames Esteban The Advisory Commission for an Inclusive Community (ACIC) The nearly 60 ACIC commissioners are a very diverse group. They range in age from teen to retired. They have a fair mixture of male and female. There were no blacks in attendance at the meeting and no one who spoke had any strong Latino...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~432393.aspx2/22/2008 10:22:46 AMJames Esteban I guess it's hard to have fun anymore. There always seems to be some old fogey like myself lurching around waiting to squelch the fun. I was at Belmar Lake on Feb. 23 and I saw some kids on the ice having a great time. I didn't want it to end poorly so I called the Police. They were there in ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~432837.aspx2/24/2008 9:23:24 AMJames Esteban Recently, I started visiting City of Lakewood parks and I stumbled upon a small lake just Northwest of the intersection of Jewel and Sheridan. It's called the Bit-o-Sea Lake and it's in the Bit-O-Sea Park subdivision which is due east of White Fence Farm. At first glance, it seems like an att...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/About-Town/Story~433675.aspx2/26/2008 8:03:27 AMJames Esteban City Council Study Session March 3, 2008 This was the first televised City Council Study Session. There were two topics of discussion. The first topic was centered around cable companies. Joni Inman, the Director of the Mayor and City Managers Office stated that the Comcast Franchise Agre...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~436805.aspx3/4/2008 11:49:15 AMJames Esteban So far this session Senate Roll Call Votes are down 32.5 percent and 65.9 percent of the Roll Call votes occur between the hours of 11:00 AM on Thursday to 2:00 AM on Friday. Just to look at what our senators do in another way, there have been no Roll Call votes between 2 AM on Friday to 4:00 PM ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~442571.aspx3/16/2008 6:43:48 PMJames Esteban It sounds that way to me. I've spent most of the day calling 1-800-877-9777 to trying to resolve whether or not my wife's primary care physician can refer her to her current Oncologist even though they are not in the same group. Our primary care physician is in PPP and her Oncologist is in EC...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Local-Happenings/Story~451142.aspx4/3/2008 3:13:09 PMJames Esteban During the current session in congress 70% of All Roll Call Votes are performed between the hours of 10:00 AM on Thursday to 2:00 AM on Friday. There have been no Roll Call Votes recorded prior to 4:00 PM on Monday and no Roll Call Votes recorded after 10:00 AM on friday. For the remainder of the...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~456947.aspx4/16/2008 2:58:06 PMJames Esteban ...an email to the City of Lakewood City Council I live along the RTD south sound wall between Garrison and Independence and I believe that I have seen a greater sense of community in my neighborhood as a result of our collective agreement to choose the wall than I've ever felt during the entir...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~463356.aspx4/29/2008 9:44:34 AMJames Esteban John McCain is the big winner in missed Roll Call Votes again. I guess he want's to be president so he won't have to vote at all. In the second session of the 110th Congress Hillary Clinton has missed 56% of the votes, Barack Obama has missed 52% of the votes and even though John McCain has al...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~467714.aspx5/8/2008 1:50:50 PMJames Esteban Bravo to the KLTV crew for their total screw up of the June 2, 2008 Lakewood City Council study session. Most of the audio from the Study Session was lost. If you want a copy of the audio for most of Roger Wadnal's presentation which covers the "Betterments" for the Oak Street and Wadsworth Ligh...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~478769.aspx6/3/2008 9:46:44 AMJames Esteban The Advisory Commission for an Inclusive Community has been in existence for the better part of a year now. The commission is still struggling to establish it's own "rules of engagement" to perform it's stated function to provide advice to the city council. Some of the commissioners would prefer...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~485823.aspx6/19/2008 9:52:12 AMJames Esteban Images from the Kipling Street Light Rail Bridge Span Installation. Video is available at http://www.eiberhood.org I was lucky that I took my pancho last night because we did get a little light rain. In the end it was worth the time for me. I enjoyed it immensely. Check out the video at ww...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/General-News/Story~489093.aspx6/26/2008 1:15:35 PMJames Esteban It looks like the Eiber Neighborhood Association is gearing up to lend their support to the Wadsworth Bridge Betterments. We will not be meeting this month and several of the board members are trying to get an email vote completed in order to lend its support to the cause of the Betterments....http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~494310.aspx7/10/2008 1:03:56 PMJames Esteban This is an e-mail sent to the Lakewood City Council with the subject of "Betterments Maintenance Costs". Do we know the amount yet? Will we ever? Is there going to be a limit placed upon maintenance costs in the IGA? If we can and do opt out of maintenance what will become of the "betterments...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~500754.aspx7/28/2008 11:23:03 AMJames Esteban I didn't have any intention of writing this story because it was over before it really got started. However, because there has been so much misinformation about it I decided to set the record straight. On monday July 28, 2008 there was a resolution on the City Council Consent Agenda to give Ca...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/General-News/Story~506704.aspx8/11/2008 2:56:48 PMJames Esteban Taking the Wood Out of Lakewood I lost a few woody friends this weekend. RTD finally sent it's death squads out to kill the first inhabitants of Lakewood. In fact, if it weren't for them I guess the City would just be called Lake. I didn't bother to argue that the Lilac bush wasn't even on th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/About-Town/Story~602535.aspx4/13/2009 7:26:31 AMJames Esteban If you want to play a challenging game, I would recommend trying the game called FIND AMY. It's simple game to play. All you have to do is go to the City of Lakewood website at http://www.lakewood.org/index.cfm?&include=/kltv8/KLTV8Online/Meetings.cfm . Begin playing the video archives of all...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Archive/Candidate-questionnaires/Story~619877.aspx5/27/2009 1:06:02 AMJames Esteban It was about a year ago that Carma and the City decided that it would be a good idea to provide an educational opportunity for our youth to be able to view a Photo Voltaic System upclose. So they (not sure who they is) decided that it would be a great idea to put the Solar Array on the Forsberg P...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/General/Story~619947.aspx5/27/2009 9:12:57 AMJames Esteban Clearly the message for state legislators at yesterdays state legislators meeting was to raise taxes to bail out the states failing budget. The meeting was conducted in the same manner as the recent RTD opinion meetings where attendees were asked to vote for selected opinions from the "backseat ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Opinion/General/Story~662477.aspx10/4/2009 7:42:05 AMJames Esteban Despite our current budget short falls and our need to dip into reserves to support the city budget, our leaders still find it acceptable to spend 1/4 million on a bike path to nowhere. Lakewood has been awarded $375,000 in federal funds to reconstruct the bike path along the south side of Alam...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Letter-to-the-Editor/Story~665073.aspx10/9/2009 12:24:34 PMJames Esteban I wish more citizens would have seen the City of Lakewoods first Brown Bag film. It was entitled "Portland, Quest for the Livable City". Portlands planners decided to create a development boundary around their city in order to keep developments from moving into forest and farmland. This forced m...http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/News/General-News/Story~667425.aspx10/11/2009 10:58:12 PMJames Esteban