by OnSight | Aug 2016 | Campaign, Tobacco Tax
We’re on the ballot!
The Colorado Secretary of State has approved our petitions for the November ballot. Now the hard work begins.
Colorado voters will be asked this November to increase the cigarette tax to reduce smoking, save lives and provide funding for medical research and health care services for kids, veterans, and those most affected by smoking. The Colorado Secretary of State Office today approved the measure after determining that enough voter signatures were submitted.
We need to stay strong in our resolve if we’re going to win this campaign. While we haven’t seen any organized opposition from the tobacco industry yet, we expect they will show up with a vocal (and well funded) campaign any day now.
Cigarettes kill more than 5,000 Coloradans every year, and the tobacco industry will stop at nothing to target kids for lifelong addiction. Big Tobacco, in fighting a similar tax increase in California, has already spent almost $17 million. We should expect to see the same here.
Last year cigarette sales increased in Colorado for the first time in over a decade. Increasing the cigarette tax is a proven way to fight this deadly problem and keep more kids from starting to smoke.
by OnSight | Jul 2016 | Beer, Elections, Let Colorado Vote
Like Isaac Slade says: “The caucus system is old fashioned, and we have outgrown it, and we’re ready to join the national conversation for something better.”
What’s better than brews and great live music? We had both earlier this summer at a campaign fundraiser for Let Colorado Vote. Isaac Slade, lead singer of The Fray, headlined the event at the Great Divide Brewery in Denver, giving a wonderful intimate performance, including one song un-mic’d. The Denver native talked about why he loves Colorado and why he supports the Let Colorado Vote initiatives, which seek to increase participation in primary elections in Colorado. Thanks to the folks at Great Divide for hosting the event. We’ll be doing more to get the word out about the initiatives as we get closer to the election. See a video of Isaac on the Let Colorado Vote Facebook page and learn more about the campaign here.
by OnSight | Jun 2016 | Beer, Campaign, Elections, Let Colorado Vote
Join other like-minded Coloradans as we work to open primaries to the 37% of voters currently locked out and to restore Colorado’s presidential primary election in 2020
Buy tickets at LetCoVote2016.com
by OnSight | Jun 2016 | BIkes, Ride The Rockies
The 31st annual Ride the Rockies race starts Sunday in Carbondale and OnSight Public Affairs will be there, pedaling, taking photos, managing social media and sharing stories. We love this partnership, now in its third year, with the Denver Post Community Foundation and other sponsors. What an amazing way to see our beautiful state! It’s also about community and supporting great causes. This year, we’re engaging more of the RTR community with guest blogs written by the Peak Pedaler team. Jessica from Littleton, Scott from Richardson TX, Paul from Olathe and Diane from Albuquerque are our guest bloggers who are riding the race and sharing stories. Read more about them here and enjoy their blog posts! We’ll be there for 6 days of riding over roughly 400 miles and more than 29,00 feet in elevation gain, ending Friday in Fort Collins.
by OnSight | Apr 2016 | Google
People from throughout Colorado and across the globe can explore some of the state’s most beautiful and scenic locations from the comfort of their computers or mobile devices following today’s Google Maps release of more than 40 new Street View images from the Centennial State.
From exploring the Mesa Trail beneath the Flatirons in Boulder to taking in scenery in and around Rocky Mountain National Park; from wandering through Denver’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre or gazing at the grandeur of Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, the Street View images allow users to make virtual visits to many of Colorado’s most iconic and impressive landscapes.
Google’s Street View Trekker being used in the Grand Canyon.
The images were captured via Google’s Street View Trekker, a wearable backpack with a camera system on top, and Google’s newest Street View camera platform. The Trekker is worn by an operator and is walked through pedestrian walkways or trails on foot, automatically gathering images as it goes. That imagery is then stitched together to create the 360-degree panoramas you see today in Google Maps.
Tuesday’s release includes images collected by Google and others made possible by partnerships through the Trekker Loan Program with the Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau and Visit Estes Park.
Imagery released today includes:
Google Maps-collected sites
- Flatirons, Vista South Trail
- Flatirons, Prairie Vista
- Flatirons, Homestead Trail
- Flatirons, Shadow Canyon Trail
- Flatirons, Mesa Trail
- Flatirons, Marshall Mesa
- Flatirons, Community Ditch
- Flatirons, Marshall Valley
- Flatirons, Doudy Draw Trail
- Flatirons, Spring Brook Loop South Trail
- Flatirons, Towhee Trail
- Colorado State Capitol
- Garden of the Gods- Time Machine
Denver Convention and Visitors Bureau-collected sites
Visit Estes Park-collected sites
You can also access the images by searching for a destination in Google Maps for mobile (available for both Android and iOS), and then selecting the Street View option to start your own 360-degree tour.
This is all part of Google Maps’ efforts to make the world’s diverse heritage and beauty accessible to everyone. T o learn more about where the Trekker has travelled thus far, please visit: http://www.google.com/maps/about/behindthescenes/streetview/treks/
