{"id":7437,"date":"2011-08-20T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:21:31","slug":"minneapolis-st-paul-business-journal-xcel-aggressively-fighting-citys-move-to-create-own-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7437","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis \/ St. Paul Business Journal | Xcel aggressively fighting city&#8217;s move to create own utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7439\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/astroturf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7439\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7439\" title=\"astroturf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/astroturf-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/astroturf-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/astroturf-400x160.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/astroturf.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/www.astroturfusa.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Xcel Energy said Friday it is forming an issue committee to oppose a ballot proposal in the city of Boulder, Colo., that would create a municipal power utility.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is being formed \u201cfor the purpose of opposing the takeover of the electric system in Boulder and that it will also support the work of the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition Issue Committee chaired by <strong>David Miller<\/strong>,\u201d Xcel said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at\u00a0 Minneapolis \/ St. Paul Business Journal:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/news\/2011\/08\/19\/xcel-forms-to-fight-boulder-city-utility.html\">Xcel aggressively fighting city&#8217;s move to create own utility<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xcel Energy said Friday it is forming an issue committee to oppose a ballot proposal in the city of Boulder, Colo., that would create a municipal power utility. The committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[497,45,162,101],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-election-2011","tag-energy","tag-municipalization","tag-xcel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9230,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions\/9230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}