Volunteers are now collecting signatures for Ballot Initiative 53, which will set up a system for public financing of electoral campaigns in Colorado. If passed, candidates for the state legislature and statewide offices (with the exception of members of the U.

More to the point, though, I wonder about the use of the word 'naturalist' in the article. Isn't a naturalist one who studies plants and creatures in their native habitat? I think the accurate word for nudist is 'naturist.' In this case, it would be Pamela White who is the naturalist, interviewing Catharine Pierce, who is the naturist.

(Re: Pot at the Tea Party, letters, April 29.) Boulder Weekly letter-writer Brain Sherwin writes in the April 29 edition, And don't tell us that the free market will take care of [uninsured sick people], because it's had multiple decades to get it right and it hasn't.

I remember about a year ago Sen. Chris Romer started courting the local dispensaries and medical marijuana organizations under the ruse that he was going to pass reasonable legislation to legitimize our growing industry.

(Re: 'The Democrats don't get the Tea Party,' Danish Plan, April 8.) As usual, Paul Danish has his head so far up his ass, he needs a flashlight; and, as usual, you print his drivel. A pity, and probably just for the response from other outraged, intelligent humans.

(Re: 'The Democrats don't get the Tea Party,' Danish Plan, April 8.) Paul Danish's take on the Tea Party opens with a straw man: Anyone who has counted faces in more than one Tea Party picture knows that the majority are women, though they aren't the majority of women.

(Re: 'New Yorker go home,' letters, March 25.) Many thousands of people have moved to Colorado to enjoy the 'beauty of the open spaces,' as you've described, though I'm sure no one's idea of that beauty included the stench of sewage, regardless of what state they may have moved from.

Anyone living in Boulder is no stranger to the medical marijuana dispensary phenomenon that has been unfolding recently. While the current situation is certainly a step in the right direction towards drug policy reform, prefacing all things marijuana with the term medical is a bit irking.

(Re: The dogma of bigotry, Uncensored, March 18.) Amazing job, Pamela. Couldn't have said it better myself. In a religion where serial child abuse has been overlooked, I wonder what impact one child being evicted from school can have? What will it take for the masses to climb out of the mundane to even glimpse the sadness of complacency?.

During these times I reflect on what Jesus would do. Jesus defied judgment in doctrine with compassion. He was persecuted for helping people with contradictory beliefs and behavior. His suffering proves sacrifice in word and deed creates love. I pray His example lives in me.