Tim Gill, Hickenlooper and a New Photo Posting Service

This from the Denver Post this morning about Denver's own Tim Gill, founder of Quark and, today, an human rights activist who -- along with a couple other good folks -- was probably more responsible for electing some good Democrats in Colorado statewide races which resulted in Democratic majorities in both houses of the Colorado Legislature ... something we haven't seen around here for a long, long time.

Gill, who is worth something over $400 Million, conducted what has come to be called a stealth campaign to defeat Republicans and elect good Democrats. Quoting from the Post article:

"The last time he got this mad - when Amendment 2, repealing anti-discrimination laws for gays and lesbians [in Colorado] almost became law - he forked over $1 million to create the Gill Foundation. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the foundation is the nation's largest charity devoted to issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, with an endowment of $220 million.

"This time - when a GOP legislator proposed requiring parental consent before schools could teach about certain kinds of human sexuality - Gill spent nearly $700,000 helping upset the status quo."

The Post story is a good read.

This, also from the Post reports on our business mayor's (John Hickenlooper's) inability to reshape that damned bureauocracy into a lean, clean fightin' machine after eighteen months into his incumbency. And, now that I think about it, eighteen months is about three/eighths into hizzoner's term. Better get moving, guy.

And, another thing... Weren't you and the City Council going to turn the city's personnel system upside down; create a world class personnel system that would be the envy of every major city in the United States? Where's that in the ol' things to do hopper?

Finally, as you can see below, I'm once again able to post pictures. I went to flickr which, so far, has been working great. It was becoming simply too frustrating not knowing from one day to the next if the Picasa/Hello functionality was going to work. And, I'm not saying that that lack of functionality was the fault of Picasa/Hello. Maybe it was my system. Maybe it was the blog. Who knows. But, I had to resolve the issue and the new service is working well.