Job loss figures hard to pin down
By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer
September 16, 2003
Candidate Jeep Campbell mentioned that 33,000 jobs had been lost in the Boulder-Longmont area since 2001, at Friday's City Council candidate forum sponsored by Plan-Boulder County. Current council member Spense Havlick, who was in the crowd, immediately disagreed with the figure.
City campaign season begins
Forum kicks off 15-candidate council race
By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer
August 28, 2003
Campaign season started for Boulder City Council elections Wednesday with the first candidate forum in what could be a hotly contested 15-way race. . . . Only one candidate, Jeep Campbell, expressed opposition Wednesday to a proposed 0.15 percent city sales tax measure that will also be on this fall's ballot. . . .
Candidate list
August 28, 2003
Six of nine Boulder City Council seats are up for election. The following 15 candidates have been certified for the ballot:
Boulder County Aids Project Director Robin Bohannan; construction contractor Jeep Campbell; public policy lawyer and Board of Zoning Adjustment member Scott Gessler; political/neighborhood activist and Adams County Parks and Recreation Director Crystal Gray; founder of Night Riders company Carl Grodnik; former owner of Shish Kabob restaurant Nabil Karkamaz; real estate consultant Chris Maurer; Western Governor's Association representative Shaun McGrath; incumbent Lisa Morzel; Pedestrian Shops owner Richard Polk; CU communications adjunct instructor and transportation advisory board member Jim Rettew; incumbent Mark Ruzzin; regional director of League of Conservation voters Andy Schultheiss; ultrasound technician Lynn Segal; and Liquor Mart general manager Jack Stoakes.
Mosquito spraying could begin Tuesday, city says
By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer
August 24, 2003
Friday morning, Jeep Campbell, Boulder City Council candidate, and Ralph Shnelvar, 2002 gubernatorial candidate from the Libertarian Party, staged a small demonstration outside of the Boulder Municipal Building at 1777 Broadway.
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Cities to spray for mosquitoes
Boulder, Lafayette to use pesticide in bug-heavy neighborhoods
By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer
August 23, 2003
Boulder will begin limited spraying for mosquitoes next week, responding to requests from health officials that the city use pesticides to combat West Nile virus.
. . . Campbell said he understands the city's longstanding reluctance use pesticides to combat weeds in parks. "But when we can use chemicals that can keep people alive and aren't all that harmful, I think we're justified," Campbell said, adding that it would protect the young and aged. "I value my grandmother, and I value my grandfather. ... Whatever it takes to keep these people alive, I'm going to do it."
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Campbell wants spraying
By RICHARD VALENTY Colorado Daily Staff Writer
August 22, 2003
Jeep Campbell, a candidate for Boulder's City Council in 2003, will head for City Hall (1777 Broadway) today at 11:00 a.m., but not as a city official.
Campbell and what he described as a "small group of people" will be protesting a recent city decision to use only targeted spraying, and not wide-scale spraying of adult mosquitoes, to combat a rise in human West Nile Virus cases.
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Boulder seeks two tax boosts
One proposed increase is last fall's open space measure
By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer
July 30, 2003
Hootie the Owl may return to political campaign posters this fall, and city employees could again take to the streets asking Boulder voters to increase taxes.
The City Council on Tuesday approved putting two questions on this fall's ballot asking to increase city sales taxes.
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Campbell joins Boulder council race
By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer
July 23, 2003
Maintenance man and construction worker Garland "Jeep" Campbell is joining the growing field of people seeking election to Boulder's City Council this fall. The 47-year-old also ran in 2001.
He will appear on the ballot as Jeep Campbell, seeking one of six seats up for election.
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