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Boulder Chamber to Endorse for the First Time
For the first time in its 106-year history, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce will endorse candidates for the Boulder City Council. The Chamber advocates for over 1,600 businesses employing 80,000 employees. Members include the Boulder Valley [...]
Look to the Blue Line for Election 2011 Coverage
It’s that time of year again: the municipal election. Candidates will soon be slogging through forums and questionnaires, doorsteps will be littered with fliers and advertising, ballots will be arriving in the mail, and voters will be trying [...]
Choice of Evils
"I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy. Really, I do. I think he was once somebody's baby boy, and he had a mother and a father who loved him, and now there he is, half dead on a park bench, and where are his mother or his father, [...]
Fasten Your Seatbelts — the Campaign Has Begun!
It looks like things are heating up on the local energy front. While the Boulder City Council ponders whether to put an Xcel franchise on the ballot or instead ask voters for the authority to create a local utility ("municipalization"), interested [...]
Kids Artwalk Boulder
The North Boulder Recreation Center's walls are covered with outrageous displays of color and creativity. The Youth Services Initiative, led by Alex Zinga through Boulder's Parks and Recreation Department, is putting on an art show and the rec [...]
Poll: BVSD’s New Super
Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Chris King is leaving BVSD and the school board will begin its search for a new superintendent soon. According to the Daily Camera, school board president Ken Roberge said that they haven't yet [...]
2011 Boards and Commissions
The city will be accepting applications for positions on the following boards and commissions: Arts Commission Beverages Licensing Authority Board of Zoning Adjustment Boulder Urban Renewal Authority Downtown Design Advisory [...]
Marching with MLK
Boulder City Councilman Macon Cowles' father will be honored by Littleton's mayor at a ceremony on Monday marking Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Reverend S. Macon Cowles, Jr., who passed away in 2002, marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in [...]
What Does It Mean for You?
Imagine -- imagine for a moment, here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that some day she, too, might play a part in [...]
Council Passes Jefferson Parkway Resolution
UPDATE: Text of the final resolution is posted below. Will the Jefferson Parkway be built or not? Does Boulder have any leverage or not? Is the proposed route of the parkway contaminated with plutonium or not? The December 21, 2010 [...]
