Posts Tagged ‘city council’
Grano: Housing, helping, and history
Candidate Grano (photo courtesy Jill Grano) Jill Grano, a 2017 candidate for Boulder City Council, is making her first run for elected office but to her, this run seems like a logical extension of her previous life’s work. She got involved with [...]
Benjamin: Bring science to service
Those who first meet Matt Benjamin, a 2017 candidate for Boulder City Council, might wonder at first if the local astrophysicist is taking a wide turn in life by running for local office. But Benjamin, age 35, is passionate about this race and his [...]
Weaver: Energy focus since the childhood kitchen table
Sam Weaver, incumbent Boulder City Council member and candidate for re-election in 2017, believes he’s qualified and ready for a second term—a term that could include significant progress on the energy issues he’s focused on for most of his [...]
Byrne: Land use musings on many levels
Ed Byrne, a 2017 candidate for Boulder City Council, can legitimately say he’s seen a thing or two that would be pertinent in a run for this office. He’s lived in Boulder for 36 years, worked as an Assistant City Attorney, owned his own practice [...]
Election 2017
Greetings from the Blue Line! This year, we are focusing our election coverage efforts on profiles of the Boulder City Council candidates. We are thrilled to have recruited former Colorado Daily reporter Richard Valenty to interview all of the [...]
Nagle: A native and Gunbarrel neighbor
Mirabai Nagle, a 2017 candidate for Boulder City Council, is a Boulder native and small business owner who decided to run as a result of noticing the town she grew up in was changing—and perhaps not for the better. While Boulder was once known for [...]
Budd: Young techie tackles housing, transportation
Eric Budd, a 2017 candidate for Boulder City Council, is making his first run for elected office, and many locals already know he has wasted no time or energy in efforts to make his positions known. Budd, 35 years old, is running in advocacy of [...]
Xcel’s Municipalization Offer: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Two weeks ago, Xcel made a set of 11th hour electricity provision offers to Boulder, a so-called “partnership,” and a buy-out option. Readers should understand that Xcel’s offers are not what the city asked for; they are only what Xcel is [...]
Ballot issue 302: Raising Barriers to Democracy
In this time of disaffection with government and the political process, populist ideas and candidates like Donald Trump are getting traction with promises of making broken things great again with illusory solutions. Issue 302 fits that mold. [...]
Is City of Boulder Ballot Issue 302 Necessary? Would It Cause More Harm Than Good?
At a debate on October 7, 2016 sponsored by PLAN-Boulder County about the merits of Ballot Issue 302—which would limit the number of terms that a Boulder City Council member could serve, proponent Andy Schultheiss contended that it would tend to [...]
