‘Featured’ Archives
Nearing Completion on the West TSA
Almost two years ago, in January of 2009, the City’s Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Department began a process designed to assess trails, trail sustainability, visitor access, and natural resource protection in the West Trail Study Area [...]
Power to the People!
Paul Fenn, the co-founder of Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and president of Local Power, Inc., explained at a PLAN-Boulder forum on the evening of November 8, 2010 that CCA is an alternative to both municipal power systems and investor-owned [...]
Jefferson Parkway’s Layers of Complication
On November 17 the Jefferson County Commissioners passed a resolution (reproduced below) offering to pay $5 million to the State Land Board to purchase Section 16 at the southwest corner of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge, if the City of Boulder and [...]
The Blue Danube Meets the Blue Line
Earlier this month the Blue Line was honored with an invitation to meet with a group of visiting international journalists. The Edward R. Murrow Journalism Fellows are members of a State Department-sponsored program that brings international [...]
RTD’s Fare Increase: Driving Us to Drive
RTD has proposed another fare increase, this time a 12.5% increase from its current value of $2.00 to $2.25. The bus fare in 2002 was $1.10, which would be $1.34 in today’s dollars. The graph below shows the actual bus fare from 2002 to 2011, [...]
Mom, Why Can’t We Play Ball at Casey?
Because it's closed to neighborhood use. The synthetic turf playing field at the renovated Casey Middle School is a lot of things: centrally located, environmentally friendly, guilt-free green— and off-limits. A grey Master lock and a BVSD [...]
Boulder’s Water Supply under Climate Change
Climate change may not significantly affect total precipitation in the City of Boulder’s watershed, but it will cause warmer temperatures in our area, earlier spring run-off, increased variability of supply, and drier summers two local experts [...]
Read. Write. Party!
It was so great connecting with the readers, contributing authors, and innocent bystanders who are making The Blue Line a vibrant on-line source for alternative views on Boulder issues at the last Blue Friday… that we’re going to do it [...]
Jefferson Parkway: Who Wins, Who Loses?
About 10 years ago, Jefferson County commissioners and several north Jeffco cities sponsored the NW Quadrant (Transportation) Feasibility Study, whose purpose was to determine how best to meet the demand for future mobility in north Jeffco. One [...]
What do Mountain Bikers Want?
On Monday, September 13th, Open Space and Mountain Park’s (OSMP’s) West Trail Study Area (TSA) Community Collaborative Group (CCG) held a meeting dedicated to mountain biking. At that meeting, the conservation caucus would not consent to or [...]
