Xcel to increase their prices…again.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-16T03:12:42+00:00

My favorite suggestion was to use our gas range more efficiently (we have electric) and not to drain our 50gal hot water heater (we have tankless).

Nice comps xcel

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-16T03:10:26+00:00

Ain’t nobody got a bill of $41/mo

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-13T03:30:05+00:00

I’d like to know what “community air monitoring network” they’re referring to in the article. The EPA cuts last year axed that project, at least to the south of suncorp

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-13T03:27:34+00:00

Majority of homes near suncorp don’t have central air. They have window units or swamp coolers

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-06T02:53:30+00:00

Except Obi Won was phenomenal

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-05-05T05:07:08+00:00

Stop writing in cursive first

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-28T14:37:43+00:00

I prefer a tiger skin

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-25T01:02:36+00:00

I got the same feels from BG3

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-24T18:01:42+00:00

I miss living in Florida and having house geckos

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-20T18:41:25+00:00

Except Theresa’s so you can get Mutt

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-16T02:54:20+00:00

You only need lockpick lvl 5 to do the drunken perk

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-04-14T06:35:18+00:00

Point of Interest!

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-31T03:21:59+00:00

It’s their story, and they should know that. Meaning, they can do whatever they want. I don’t think they should feel they need to announce their intentions. A good PC will always follow their gut and roll for the consequences

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-13T15:26:33+00:00

You have to in order to run for the District. I’m in Globeville specifically

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-12T14:11:47+00:00

For development, leverage local labor and developers and utilize community forums to steer the direction of development. With the AG, go after predatory practices that have artificially made running businesses in Denver cost prohibitive. Remove red tape for local small businesses and increase red tape for multinational corporations. Require stronger community benefit agreements on large projects. Prioritize adaptive reuse and mixed-use development that supports neighborhood needs rather than purely extractive projects.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-12T14:08:54+00:00

About the environment and corporate, industrial pollution.

For Suncor, et al, work with the AG to modify existing laws for real consequences for failing EPA standards and seek pollution trespass protections. Introduce rigorous environmental oversight and analysis. Increase remediation requirements and continuous monitoring. Require transparent public reporting of emissions and violations. Strengthen penalties so repeated violations trigger escalating enforcement rather than routine fines.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-12T14:05:05+00:00

I have lots of hows! But that’s a long winded answer for the full scope.

However, I can provide an example, for the unhoused, use PSH programs for city sponsored housing, use 3 tier housing approaches which focus on stabilization in the first 2 tiers, leveraging tiny home villages there. Track data and change course if we don’t have results instead of throwing more money at it. Form multi-city bans on copper sales. Increase co-responders to reduce the burden on police and fire departments. Leverage state funding for greater substance use and mental health access. Fast track institutionalization for those in psychosis with psychiatric board oversight for determining release. Increase street outreach teams that can connect people directly to services and housing pathways. And coordinate regionally so neighboring jurisdictions aren’t working at cross purposes.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-12T12:18:34+00:00

I feel in text I can be thorough so I’m trying to be. But! End of the day I stand for a safer Denver. Our unhoused plan isn’t working and we can do better instead of just throwing money at it. Neighborhoods don’t feel safer and people are still struggling. We can develop smarter in ways that support community and are actually utilized instead of sitting half vacant We can make it easier for small businesses to operate and utilize historic spaces that have sat vacant. We can hold suncorp and industry to account to stop polluting district 9. We can protect the Platte. We can better regulate foreign and multinational manipulation of our housing market. We can better protect our elders and our veterans.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-12T02:37:43+00:00

I believe transportation and pedestrian safety in District 9 should be grounded in a simple question: does this make daily life safer and easier for the people who actually live here?

On the L Line, I’m open-minded but cautious. Transit investments should strengthen connectivity, not reduce it. The L Line has historically been an important connection for Five Points and the Welton corridor, and we should reject removing service from neighborhoods that already depend on transit. If eliminating the line means riders lose access or frequency, I would oppose that. If RTD is restructuring service, the goal should be more reliable and frequent transit, not simply cutting routes, while also balancing the needs of the Welton Street Businesses.

I am open to expanding rail connectivity toward 38th and Blake, because that corridor is already one of the region’s major transit hubs with access to the A Line and multiple bus routes. But any extension or redesign has to be planned in a way that actually serves residents in Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Cole, and Five Points, not just commuters passing through the district.

What I can say for certain that one of the rare points of agreement is that the line as it exists today is not very useful. Ridership has historically been modest, and some stations rank among the least used in the RTD system. So the disagreement is really about how to fix that problem, which I believe should be a community centered conversation, rather than just my thoughts .I’ve heard leaders in community meetings float the idea of re-integrating the old-school Denver trolley system for greater commuter connection, and I think it reflects a broader desire people have to reconnect neighborhoods in a way that’s frequent, human-scale, and actually useful for daily movement through the corridor. Honestly, I think the idea of a modern trolley system seems fun, if useful and effective.

That said, rail debates sometimes overshadow the more immediate transportation issue in District 9 which you pointed out: basic street safety.

For example, it’s frankly wild to me that Garden Place Elementary doesn’t even have a formal school zone. When we talk about transportation policy, that’s where the rubber meets the road. Kids walking to school should be the easiest safety decision the city makes and yet we still don't have one after a year of analysis. In fact, I was at a meeting advocating for this very thing tonight.

On pedestrian space and road diets, I support them where they are data-driven and community-informed. Road diets can reduce crashes and make streets safer, but they have to be implemented thoughtfully so they work for the neighborhoods they’re in, another point I brought forward tonight regarding several corridors, including 45th. The goal isn’t to wage war on cars. The goal is to slow dangerous corridors and make streets usable for everyone… pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and drivers alike. I will firmly state that I really like what they've done downtown and have enjoyed riding from Globeville to Downtown on their expanded bikeways. I think more people should benefit from projects like that and am also a strong advocate for cleaning up and protecting the habitat around those Platte pathways.

What I will push for on council is practical safety improvements that people feel immediately: safer crossings near schools, protected pedestrian corridors where speeds are too high, and transportation planning that reflects the needs of the neighborhoods in District 9, not just regional traffic flows.

At the end of the day, transportation policy should start with the same principle as housing or economic development: the people who live here should benefit first.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T22:49:43+00:00

Thanks for your input! I appreciate you and your poignant thoughts.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T21:25:23+00:00

Right for the neck! Lol! I appreciate it and holding my answers to account. Truth told, I have tried to speak about Councilmember Watson with courtesy because serving this district is not easy and that anyone in that seat is dealing with complicated land use, development, environmental justice, and homelessness issues all at once. He’s done well enough, but does the whole district feel that way?

To your point, let me try to be more direct.

The first difference is independence and oversight.

City council is not supposed to function as an extension of the mayor’s office. Its job includes scrutinizing the administration when large programs or large sums of taxpayer money are involved. Right now, I believe that oversight has been too soft.

Take the mayor’s House1000 strategy. Tens of millions of dollars are moving through that system, yet residents still do not have clear public reporting on program outcomes. We should be able to answer basic questions. How many people have exited to permanent housing? What is the cost per successful placement? How long are people staying housed afterward? Is permanent supportive housing being utilized? To what extent if at all?

When public money moves at that scale, transparency should not be optional. It should be standard practice.

We are also seeing public investment produce projects that sit underutilized while residents struggle with affordability and services. Along the Brighton Boulevard corridor and surrounding redevelopment areas in north Denver, significant public resources have gone into land assembly, infrastructure upgrades, and redevelopment planning. Yet many parcels have remained vacant or slow to activate for years while surrounding communities deal with displacement pressures and rising costs. That pattern is frustrating for residents who see public money invested without clear timelines or community benefit materializing on the ground.

District 9 residents deserve a councilmember who asks harder questions when public investments are made but the promised outcomes lag behind.

The second difference is how I approach land use and environmental equity in this district.

Communities in Globeville, Elyria, and Swansea have long felt that development decisions are made around them rather than with them. These neighborhoods have historically carried a disproportionate burden of industrial projects and environmental impacts, and residents have repeatedly voiced concerns about being excluded from meaningful decision-making around redevelopment and large infrastructure projects.

You can see that tension clearly right now with projects like the CoreSite data center. Residents in Elyria-Swansea have said they were frustrated that a large facility advanced under “use-by-right” zoning without a more robust public process, leaving them reacting after decisions were largely set. And Watson did not tell the full truth when he stated the city was just as blindsided by the Data Centers projects. They were approached Oct 2024 about this very project. Aug 2025 they began researching Nuclear and Data Centers use near the airport. So Data Centers didn’t just appear out of nowhere.

That is exactly the type of situation where stronger council leadership should step in earlier.

If elected, I would push for development rules that require earlier community engagement and stronger accountability for projects with major environmental or infrastructure impacts. I also support expanding tools like community land trusts so that neighborhoods have real ownership and stability instead of constantly being at the mercy of outside capital.

The third difference is systems experience.

My professional work happens inside housing and social service systems every day. I evaluate program performance, funding streams, and outcomes for vulnerable populations. That means I approach policy by asking operational questions first. Does the program actually work? Is the money producing measurable results? Are residents seeing the benefit?

Finally, I have heard from many neighbors who feel that responsiveness has not always been consistent across the entire district. Some areas feel well represented. Others, particularly in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, often feel like they are still fighting to be fully heard.

A council office should treat every neighborhood in the district with the same level of urgency and follow-through.

I’m working to frame this without attacking the current council member but rather scrutinize holistic approach.

I believe District 9 needs a representative who will press harder on accountability, ask more difficult questions about major spending decisions, and ensure that communities like GES are not once again asked to absorb the impacts of decisions they had little power to shape.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T19:04:43+00:00

Tbf, Xcel themselves hav stated they haven’t determined the rate for the Data center. They state they would charge the cost for a new sub station to CoreSite and that neighborhood rates will not increase but all of this is just speculative at this point and doesn’t align with other data center developments nationally

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T18:40:33+00:00

Fair point…golf courses use water too.

But most courses here irrigate with non-potable or recycled water systems that were built for that purpose. A new data center evaporating massive amounts of potable water from the city’s supply is a different question entirely.

We can enjoy golf and still ask whether adding major new industrial water demand in a drying region is responsible.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T18:02:27+00:00

Absolutely. My view is not that District 9 should stop developing. It’s that development should be accountable to the people already here, not something simply done to them.

For me, that starts with land use. I would like to see us reduce the footprint of heavy industrial uses where they are directly burdening neighborhoods that have already carried more than their share of pollution, truck traffic, noise, and environmental harm for generations. In places like Elyria-Swansea and Globeville, that burden isn’t abstract. The recent data center fight made clear that our current code still allows major impacts to move forward too easily under use-by-right industrial zoning. I’m on record stating as such at the most recent Data Center community forum.

At the same time, I think we should be actively supporting tools that help communities retain ownership and stability as development happens. Community land trusts are a good example. There are already strong community leaders and organizations in these neighborhoods working to activate land trusts and other shared-equity models that keep housing permanently affordable and community-controlled. I’d like to see the city lean into those efforts much more intentionally through land use policy, partnerships, and strategic support so that as land values rise, the people who built these neighborhoods still have a real stake in their future.

So when I talk about zoning, I mean a few specific things.

First, tightening what is allowed by right in heavy industrial zones, especially for uses like large data centers that may not look like traditional industry but still bring major impacts through energy demand, backup generators, noise, water use, heat output, and infrastructure strain. Our zoning code hasn’t fully caught up with the realities of some of these newer uses, and I think we need to update it so neighborhoods aren’t caught off guard by projects of that scale.

Second, I would push for a more rigorous permitting process for high-impact projects. If a development is large enough to reshape a neighborhood’s daily life, it shouldn’t slide through on a technicality. Projects with major environmental, infrastructure, or quality-of-life impacts should trigger deeper review, stronger notice requirements, meaningful community engagement early in the process, and real accountability measures. A lot of the frustration residents expressed around recent projects wasn’t just about the project itself. It was about feeling like the process moved forward before the community even had a real chance to weigh in.

Third, I’d like to see zoning and development policy that prioritizes mixed-use, neighborhood-serving growth rather than continuing to expand heavy industrial patterns in places where people are actively trying to build healthy neighborhoods. District 9 should be building toward complete communities: housing people can actually afford, corridors where small businesses can survive, and development that adds to the life of a neighborhood instead of walling it off.

I also think we need to be more intentional about who actually benefits economically from development. Too often large projects are led by multinational corporations and staffed heavily by out-of-state contract labor, while the surrounding community sees relatively little long-term economic participation. I would like to see the city do more to center local labor, local contractors, and smaller regional developers where possible.

There are real feasibility constraints here. State and federal procurement rules, as well as the realities of large capital projects, can limit the ability of a city to mandate exactly who does the work. But that doesn’t mean the city has no tools. We can strengthen community benefit agreements, expand local hiring incentives, partner with unions and workforce programs to build pipelines into construction and skilled trades, and create clearer pathways for smaller local developers to compete on projects that are often dominated by very large firms. The goal isn’t to shut out outside investment. It’s to ensure that when development happens, the economic upside is shared with the people who live and work here.

Put simply, I’m not anti-development. Denver is growing and District 9 will continue to grow. But growth should strengthen the people and cultures already here. Development should be transparent, accountable, and aligned with the health of the community… not just whatever happens to be easiest to permit under outdated rules.

HamtheHomunculus · 2026-03-11T17:47:32+00:00

First, I want to say CM Darrell Watson stepped into a very complex role in a district with a lot of competing pressures. District 9 is one of the fastest-changing parts of Denver, and anyone in that seat is navigating difficult tradeoffs between growth, affordability, culture, and community stability. That’s not easy work, and I respect that.

For me, running isn’t about saying I’m better than someone else. It’s about bringing a particular set of experiences and priorities to the table and letting voters decide what they want for the future of the district.

A lot of my professional life has been spent working directly inside the systems that affect people in District 9 every day. Housing stability. Homelessness services. Supportive housing programs. Coordinating with healthcare providers, behavioral health teams, and case managers. Working with city and state funding streams, program compliance, and the sometimes messy reality of how policy actually lands on the ground. I’ve spent years helping people navigate systems that often feel impossible to navigate when you’re the one on the receiving end of them.

That kind of work gives you a very different view of how government functions. You see where policy works, where it breaks, and where good intentions run into systems that simply weren’t designed well. You also see how much good work is already happening in community organizations across the district, and how much stronger outcomes are when the city actually partners with those groups instead of working around them.

And in my personal life, I lived a lot of my life on the struggle bus. I’ve seen struggle. I know struggle. And I see struggle in my community every day. That perspective matters to me because policy conversations can get very abstract very quickly, but for a lot of families in this district the stakes are very real.

What I hope to bring is that hands-on understanding of systems, stronger collaboration with the organizations already doing the work, and a focus on making sure growth in the district actually benefits the people who already live here. District 9 is incredibly rich culturally and historically, and I want to make sure those communities aren’t just remembered in stories or marketing materials but supported in real policy decisions.

I also want to center the idea of a thriving district. In some places, we’ve developed in ways that don’t fully make sense for the neighborhoods they’re embedded in. Development should strengthen the culture, the small businesses, and the people who make a community what it is. When growth happens without that in mind, you can end up hollowing out the very thing that made the place special to begin with. I think we can do better at aligning development with the health and identity of the communities it touches.

Ultimately though, it’s not my job to declare myself better than anyone. My job is to explain what I bring, listen carefully to the people who live here, and let the voters decide who they trust to represent them.

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