Posts Tagged ‘municipalization’
Lisa Morzel, City Council member and volcanologist says she ‘can take the heat’
Council candidate Lisa Morzel examines grizzly bear claw marks while doing field work in Yellowstone National Park earlier this year. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Morzel) Beginning at age 5, Lisa Morzel and her family traveled to Colorado for summer [...]
Commit to Climate Action at the Community Energy Fair
It is an exciting—and hopefully pivotal—time for new commitments to climate action: will you make some new commitments this Saturday at the Community Energy Fair at Scott Carpenter Park? Just last week, Hawaii became the first U.S. state to [...]
2B or Not 2B—That Is the Question (Along With 1A, 1B, and 2A)
At a PLAN-Boulder County ballot issues forum on Friday, October 10, 2014, the only debate that occurred concerned the wisdom of Ballot Issue 2B, which would allow the Boulder City Council to hold executive sessions to obtain legal advice related to [...]
Boulder’s New Utility Expected to Electrify the Town in 2015
At a PLAN-Boulder County forum on Friday, June 13, about the status of Boulder’s municipalization efforts, City Attorney Tom Carr estimated that the city will probably be able to start operating an electric utility by October or November of [...]
Securing the US Electric Grid with Distributed Energy and Microgrids
Author's disclosure: Occasionally HOMER Energy pays me to get the word out about their company and that is the case with this story. The local NREL spinoff develops software that allows rapid design and cost comparisons of hybrid renewable [...]
Vote No on 310
Rail cars loaded with coal Why is Xcel fighting so hard to stop Boulder's effort to start a municipal utility? Make no mistake, Xcel is behind the wording of Question 310, and is behind the many mailings and full-page ads in support of the [...]
All the Easy Things Have Been Done—a Response to Ken Wilson
Second Flat Iron, Boulder, CO by Chad Podoski (flickr creative commons) Good grief, Ken Wilson is such a raging pessimist. We get it, Ken, this is going to be hard. But evidently you did not get the memo: All the easy things have been done. Yes, [...]
Making Sense of Energy Measures on the Ballot: Vote No on 310 and Yes on 2E
Note from the authors: Powerful interests are counting on voter confusion (and are even creating confusion) to thwart Boulder from determining its own clean energy future. Please read on, and help others get informed. There is a lot at stake in this [...]
Micah Parkin, a Fresh Face in Boulder Politics
This is the ninth in a series of candidate profiles written by students in Instructor Jeff Browne’s CU News Corps course at CU-Boulder. Lauren is studying for her master's in journalism at CU-Boulder. She graduated from CU in 2011 with degrees in [...]
Mayor Matt Appelbaum Has Not Yet Had Enough
This is the eighth in a series of candidate profiles written by students in Instructor Jeff Browne’s CU News Corps course at CU-Boulder. Lars Gesing is a graduate student from Hamburg, Germany, where he worked for several print and online [...]
