City delivers $130,000 fence for prairie dogs

The city of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department will spend $130,000 on a prairie dog fence project at Foothills Community Park.

Installation of the fence is scheduled to begin this month at the park, located west of Broadway and between Locust Avenue and Lee Hill Road. About $84,000 will be spent on the fence, and another $46,000 will be spent on planting vegetation around the 3-foot fence that spans 3,220 linear feet.

The Eye wonders if the critters wouldn?t just burrow underneath the fence to get around it. But, according to the parks and recreation?s Web site, prairie dogs don?t like to boldly go where no dog has gone before without seeing it first. The Web site, at www.ci.boulder.co.us/parks-recreation calls the management of prairie dogs ?an evolving science.?

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Bredo Morstøel might be the locals? choice for Colorado?s most interesting person, but he didn?t make the cut on The Tonight Show.

Comedian Tom Greene has been on the road in search of the country?s most interesting people and periodically reporting in to Tonight Show host Jay Leno.

Morstøel made it to the five finalists, losing out to an avalanche rescue dog who found Greene buried in a manmade avalanche.

Morstøel, who died in 1989 and was cryogenically frozen in the hopes of eventual ?reanimation,? has been stored for more than a decade on dry ice in a Nederland Tuff Shed. Frozen Dead Guy Days, Nederland?s annual three-day festival in March, celebrates the life, but mostly the death, of Morstøel.

Forget about ?Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.? The Golden Rule is obsolete according to Emerson Williams, author of ?Success for Bastards.?

For years, traditional ?self-help/success? books and courses have promised that if we are honest, fair and ethical the world would reward us with money and success, Williams says. ?Anyone who has ever tried that approach can tell you it is bunk. If you really want to achieve wealth and success in today?s world, you must be a bastard, to some degree.

The self-titled ?modern-day Machiavelli? peddles his philosophy online for $79.50 plus shipping and handling at www.successforbastards.com.

But when the Eye clicked the ?buy? button, it got a fatal form processing error. Williams really is a bad boy.

Spotted filling up his caffeine tank: Former Boulder Chamber of Commerce president Stan Zemler was getting a tall hot one to go at the Trident Café a few Sundays ago for the long schlep back to Vail, where he?s now town manager. Zemler told the Eye he?s in town every few weeks to visit his mom, who still lives in Boulder. Now there?s a really nice boy.

The city of Bulder was mentioned on CNBC the other day when reporters interviewed economist Michael D. Youngblood about a recent housing market study he conducted for Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co.

Youngblood identified 27 (out of 369) U.S. cities that have reached a ?housing bubble.? He said Boulder and Provo, Utah are the only two cities on his ?bubble? list that are not located on the East or West Coast.

According to Youngblood, a housing bubble is an area where local housing price increases uncharacteristically outpace local income growth rates compared with that market?s historical price-to-income norms.

Will Boulder?s bubble burst soon? Not likely in 2005, Youngblood said. For any of the bubbles to burst, it would take four straight quarters of recession, he said, and none of the 27 cities have had even one quarter of recession.