A seemingly innocuous and mostly administrative bill to swap fire district land for U.S. Forest Service land in Boulder County won U.S. Senate approval Thursday after being held up for more than a year.
Charred school buses in the wake of Boulder County’s Fourmile Canyon Fire. (Photo by EricBOULDER– For years, smack-dab in the middle of the University of Colorado campus, this town has hosted one of the biggest annual 4/20 pro-marijuana smoke-ins in the nation. Yesterday’s installment, coming amid the great legalized medical marijuana transition in this state, produced a kind of smoke signal sent out to More…
With thousands of votes still to be tallied, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has won the first political campaign of his life — and it was a political battle for the history books. He beat back a serious Democratic Party primary challenge and emerged victorious in the general election this morning More…
When most East Coasters could no longer follow the returns from sheer exhaustion, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) had fallen behind challenger Ken Buck (R) in his Senate race, and the momentum was not leaning his way. By morning, however, he’s regained a narrow lead in the polls: With 87 percent More…
Boulder, Colo., announced this week that the city is ready to become the first in United States to get smart grid technology up and running. The $100 million “SmartGridCity” is a project of Midwestern electricity supplier Xcel Energy and will provide real-time data on energy use for consumers and More…
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