The Larimer County Sheriff, James A. Alderden has started his own newsletters.

The Bull’s Eye is a bi-monthly publication written by the sheriff himself concerning public safety issues.

The Bull Sheet is written by Public Information Officer, Eloise Campanella. It will be published weekly and follow current criminal trends and activities.

Greeley Citizen Transportation Advisory Board met Monday to hear about a plan to bring a high speed rail line to Northern Colorado. The Rocky Mountain Rail Authority has a grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation to study the feasability of a plan to connect Greeley to the Denver Metro area.

This is an exciting development. They want to take the plan to voters by 2008.

Ken Buck, Weld County District Attorney, cleared the officers that shot Brian Croissant when he approached them with a knife.

It’s appearant from most related articles that Croissant was unstable and had alcohol problems.

The most unfortunate part of the article is this one:

Last November, according to the DA’s report, Croissant locked himself in a Fort Collins hotel room and threatened suicide.

“Fort Collins police didn’t shoot him then, and it was the same type of situation,” said Brian’s father, Larry Croissant. “Those officers called his family to ask how to handle him. They didn’t shoot him.”

Because of that incident, his family asked the court to commit Brian Croissant to a 45-day treatment center.

In case you missed this week’s down meetings, here is the schedule for the rest of the year:

Ward 3 will be May 22, Ward 4 on Aug. 28 and Ward 2 is scheduled for Oct. 23. All meetings are at 5:30 p.m., and locations for the meetings will be announced at a later date.

During yesterday’s Town Meeting, local resident, Nancy Menard complained about lack of ‘code enforcement’ in her neighborhood.

Nancy’s comments prompted this response from Councilman Don Feldhaus

Feldhaus said in April, the council will discuss new ways the city can deal with absentee landlords who don’t care about the property they rent out. One option includes requiring all landlords to register with the city.

So the best solution is to have landlords ‘register’ like sex offenders? There is no mention of which code is being enforced, or why the city would want landlords to register. Private property ownership is a matter of public record, why is additional beauracy needed, can’t the city just lookup the County records?

Earlier this week Eric Eidsness announced he was joining the Democratic party.

He was previously a Republican, and most recently ran against Marilyn Musgrave and Anggie Paccione as a Reform Party candidate.

So what do you think?

Aanston Frazier, UNC Mirror columnist, has an interesting editorial on the Democratic party’s recent attempt to allow TSA personnel to unionize.

Greeley City Council changed qualifications for new and expanding businesses to recieve tax and fee waivers

new businesses and existing ones creating jobs will have to pay full-time employees the Weld average wage to qualify for the fee waiver. For the second quarter of 2006 — the most recent data filed with the Colorado Department of Labor — the average wage in Weld was $649 per week. That is approximately $34,268 per year.

The Greeley Chamber of Commerce has come up with a new slogan for the city.

This new slogan has prompted our first poll here at Greeley Elections: