Ignorance is Bruce
by Alan Boles
Three November state ballot issues -- Proposition 101 and Amendments 60 and 61 -- would collectively cripple state and local governments in Colorado . . .
Does Dense Make Sense? Part 6. Recommendations
by PLAN-Boulder County
PLAN-Boulder County recommends that all new development in Boulder County adhere to these four pillars . . .
Does Dense Make Sense? Part 5. Affordable Housing
by PLAN-Boulder County
The Boulder City Council has adopted an affordable housing goal of 10% of all residential units. The Permanently Affordable Housing program is funded partially through local taxes and some government grants, but the primary means of creating new affordable units is through the . . .
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Council Poised to Take a Big Leap »
Liz Payton
The Boulder City Council will decide the fate of Boulder's relationship with energy provider Xcel Energy on Tuesday, August 3. That's when the City Council will choose whether to a) put the Xcel franchise on
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Laura Ruby
It’s time to get ready for Boulder’s first annual Tour de Coops.
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Jyotsna Raj
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Kristin Cannon
I have to admit I was a little shocked. I got the report of a small black bear, brown
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Opinion
“Council Seeking Budget Boost”… or not »
Susan Osborne
I guess I’ve about had it with our local hometown newspaper.
You can imagine my surprise when I saw the headline for a front page article in the Camera a couple of days ago. Council seeks a budget
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Atlantic | Home Prices May Drop Another 25%
With all the talk of the awful sales numbers for both existing and new homes in July, there was one small kernel of seeming good news: existing home prices rose slightly. The national median home price actually increased by 0.7% last month compared to a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. But don't expect this trend [...]
Boulder Reporter | How Boulder is governed: time for a change?
For 92 years Boulder’s municipal government has operated under the strong-City Manager, weak-City Council system. I believe it is time to consider alternatives to the current form of our local government. In 1918 Boulder joined a growing collection of primarily small cities and towns seeking to “reform” local government. Staunton, Va., [...]
Wired Science | The Psychology of Nature
In the late 1990s, Frances Kuo, director of the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory at the University of Illinois, began interviewing female residents in the Robert Taylor Homes, a massive housing project on the South Side of Chicago. Kuo and her colleagues compared women randomly assigned to various apartments. Some had a view of nothing but [...]
CNBC | Real Estate & the Economy: Death of the ‘McMansion’
They’ve been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here’s the latest thing you can call them — History. In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of references made to the “McMansion glut” and the “McMansion backlash,” as more towns pass ordinances against garishly large [...]
Colorado Independent | Undocumented Colorado Youth Feel Trapped, Call for Change
Maria, 22, left Zacatecas, Mexico, at the age of twelve to join her mother who had been working in the United States for four years. “It wasn’t the country that I was looking forward to. I mean I just wanted to go to my mom, even if it meant leaving all my friends behind,” said Maria. Upon arrival in Boulder, Maria enrolled at [...]
NPR | Calif. Leads In Clean Energy, But Challenges Loom
California has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to renewable power, and the state's clean energy business is flourishing. One of the first large-scale wind farms in the country was built just outside the Bay Area at the Altamont Pass, and this year, California regulators are reviewing twice as many renewable power contracts as last [...]
New Era News | Xcel Energy: City Council Rejects Franchise
On Tuesday, after much deliberation, City Council voted not to place the Xcel Energy franchise on November's ballot. The council met to discuss both the franchise itself and the city's options to put one of three types of utility taxes on the ballot. Though the question of the franchise was resolved, the issue of the "occupational tax" will be [...]
Boulder Reporter | Fixing Our Ailing City Government
It’s budget time at the Boulder Municipal Building. Before your eyes glaze over and you move on to another article, please remember that you, dear reader, pay the taxes and fees that operate the City of Boulder government. If you care about how your money is spent, you need to look behind the scenes at the flawed process. Let me raise the [...]
WaPo | How much bigger are U.S. homes?
The Census Bureau keeps information (PDF) on the median square footage of new homes, which you can divide by average household size to get average space per person. The EU, by contrast, counts (PDF) "useful living space," of which there will presumably be lower than the total square footage figure. Keeping in mind that the U.S. figure is thus [...]
Popular Science | The Solar Roadrunner
The road ahead is paved with photovoltaics. That’s how Scott Brusaw sees it, anyway. His company, Solar Roadways, is embedding PV cells and LED lights into panels engineered to withstand the forces of traffic. The lights would allow for “smart” roadways and parking lots with changeable signage, while the cells would generate enough energy to [...]
NYT | When Less Was More
We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of exuberance and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus. But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more. During [...]
New Era News | SmartRegs Part 2
After a little thinking break, the Boulder City Council re-engaged the issue of SmartRegs at Tuesday's council meeting, voting unanimously in favor of moving it forward to a second reading. When SmartRegs first broke into the council's agenda two weeks ago, council members spoke about it with optimism about its carbon offsetting potential [...]
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