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NYTimes.com | A Federal Study Finds That Local Reporting Has Waned
Coverage of state governments and municipalities has receded at such an alarming pace that it has left government with more power than ever to set the agenda and have assertions unchallenged, concluded the study, which is to be released on [...]
CommonDreams.Org | How to Wreck a Planet 101: Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life
Here’s one simple fact without which our deepening energy crisis makes no sense: the world economy is structured in such a way that standing still in energy production is not an option. In order to satisfy the staggering needs of older [...]
The Washington Post | If we need taxes, why not pollution taxes?
In case that graph's too tiny, America's way over there on the far left, getting slightly less than 3 percent of its revenue from measures to discourage pollution. The average industrialized country gets about 6 percent. That's mainly due to the [...]
NYTimes.com | Are Taxes in the U.S. High or Low?
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that federal taxes would consume just 14.8 percent of G.D.P. this year. The last year in which revenues were lower was 1950, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The postwar annual average is [...]
Know Your Power
A Public Forum When: Thursday, June 2 Time: 6:00-8:30 p.m. Where: East Boulder Community Center, 5660 Sioux Drive Boulder's 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy expired last year, giving our community a chance to determine the best [...]
Boulder Reporter | Flagstaff tree thinning: threat level still high
To perhaps help inspire you to write to Open Space yourself, check out the pages of photos of the destruction the Forest Service is visiting upon the Ceran St. Vrain trail above Jamestown (through a contract with a private logging company). [...]
denverpost.com | More Denver residents embrace car-sharing
The pain of gas prices and a desire to do good for themselves and the environment are pushing more people to ditch their personal wheels and rely on car-sharing. Read the entire article at DenverPost.com: More Denver residents embrace car-sharing [...]
