Posts Tagged ‘CU’
Paradise Lost: Big Changes Are Proposed for CU’s South Campus
Two related occurrences—a proposal to build a massive berm to control flood waters and reconsideration of land use designations as part of the current Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan update process likely leading to an annexation [...]
Save Bears by Keeping Them Away From Boulder
At a PLAN-Boulder County forum on Friday, April 8, Kristin Cannon, district manager of the North Boulder district for Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), stated that to her knowledge no humans in the City of Boulder had been injured by bears since [...]
Michael Kruteck, finance executive wants to bring balance to City Council
Council candidate Michael Kruteck is pictured backcountry skiing in Colorado's Elk Mountains. (Photo courtesy of Michael Kruteck) Michael Kruteck came to Boulder, sight unseen, from New York as a college freshman. At the time, in 1979, the [...]
Cindy Carlisle, city’s growth issues motivate her to return to council chambers
Candidate Cindy Carlisle at a recent candidate forum When Cindy Carlisle first served on the Boulder Council, she helped enact a “Bubble Zone” ordinance. The ordinance, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court where it was upheld, enforced a [...]
Jyotsna Raj, candidate comes from a family rooted in academics, women’s leadership
Artist Jyotsna Raj poses with her painting "Buddha's Lotus" (photo courtesy Jyotsna Raj) During her last bid for City Council, artist Jyotsna Raj heard from a group of Boulder’s homeless at a forum. She was taken by their issues. “It pulled on [...]
Varsity Lake: An Affair
Varsity Lake northern shore looking east, showing Klauder's Women's Club Building, now called McKenna Languages (Meinhardt Greeff, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/90936895) Some years back when I was editing the local Trout Unlimited newsletter, I [...]
EPA Chief to hold climate change town hall at CU-Boulder Wednesday
The newly confirmed leader of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is coming to Boulder. Gina McCarthy, the Administrator of the EPA will be in town holding a town hall meeting where she will discuss President Obama’s climate action [...]
This Is Too Long—Polonius to Hamlet
AN IMPROVISATION In Two Parts and Sixteen Fragments Part I There is little point in being as old as I am unless it makes me the oldest living remnant of this or that. I have claimed to be the oldest living writer about angling in [...]
Concealed Carry on Campus
Inscription above the west portal doors of Norlin Library (from http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/norlin.htm) House Education Committee Dear Lawmakers, I am writing to urge you to please support House Bill 13-1226. As a resident of [...]
CU Boulder Student Featured in DNC Video
CU student Ryan Case presents his story to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in this video: Here's a link to the video for Blue Line email subscribers.
