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Sightline Daily | Measuring congestion the wrong way
For decades, we've been hearing that congestion is getting worse and worse, and that traffic backups are taking a bigger and bigger bite out of our days (and paychecks) each year. But what if we're measuring congestion wrong -- and the [...]
Silly Walks Dept. | You built this city on what?
TEAM MANAGER: As you know, my team was hired to do an evaluation of this city's long-term economic prospects. We've been working on our report for three months. Gerard in the back there is passing out copies of this presentation, and the full report [...]
Center for American Progress | What are the economic effects of Arizona’s immigration law?
How is Arizona's immigration law affecting its economy? Watch Angela Kelley from the Center for American Progress.
Colorado Independent | CU students demand in-state tuition for undocumented Colorado residents
BOULDER – We’ve heard it a million times before, students these days just don’t care. But that’s a misconception according to 80 University of Colorado students who packed into a meeting on Wednesday, determined to start a full-blown [...]
Grist | The origins of Boulder’s school food makeover: Nowhere to go but up
After putting four kids through Boulder, Colo. schools, Sylvia Tawse was tired of talking about changing the district's lousy food. She wanted to do something about it. "I had been packing lunches for my kids for 17 years. Once a month, I'd go [...]
Grist | Remaking school meals in Boulder
Lunchtime at Casey Middle School, and kids were jostling in the food line: giggling, pushing, horsing around as usual as they waited to be served the day's entree -- a choice of hamburger or a plate of either beef or vegetarian bean [...]
Colorado Independent | Numbers show Hispanic voters carried the day for Colorado Democrats
Eighty-one percent of Latino voters in Colorado voted for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Split the Latino vote down the middle between Bennet and Republican Ken Buck and Buck wins easily. Even if Buck had only received 30 percent of the Latino [...]
NPR | Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them. According to Corrections [...]
Center for American Progress | Idea of the Day
Getting to greater energy security and a more sustainable and prosperous economic future will test our resolve and ingenuity. And getting there while treating our land resources in ways that sustain rather than deplete and degrade them will test [...]
Colorado Independent | Colorado leading nation in solar energy jobs growth
Released today, a new survey from Environment Colorado and the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association indicates Colorado is sixth in the nation in solar-related jobs and is expected to increase that number by 23 percent in 2011. Entitled [...]
