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Daily Camera.com: : Boulder Brands Inc. receives $20K in business incentives from city - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:59:02 +0000

"We are pleased that Boulder Brands was able to expand its downtown headquarters,” Boulder City Manager Jane S. Brautigam said in a statement. ,,,,with yearly revenues around 1/2 billion dollars, expansion is rather easy. The 20K spiff by Jane & Company is a gratuitous old boys club free drink card on the backs of all non-member City of Boulder community members.

Daily Camera.com: : Profane Ignite Boulder speech sparks outrage, defense of city consultant - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 23 May 2015 13:08:09 +0000

WTF is "level of professionalism" when working in politics and public policy?

Longmont Times-Call : Teresa Foster: The video that Mile-Hi Skydiving nixed from the trial - Longmont Times-Call

Sat, 25 Apr 2015 12:17:31 +0000

Not bothered? ....so stop bothering Teresa with your snarky approach.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder complex sells for $22M, 2-bedroom units to be halved into studio apartments - Boulder Daily

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:41:57 +0000

Ugh. Densification courtesy of developer whimsy.

Daily Camera.com: : Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:02:00 +0000

The illusion of choice. Money and power dictate all political outcomes.

Daily Camera.com: : A sandwich that\'s worth the price - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 11 Apr 2015 12:32:57 +0000

I really like it. Several weeks ago I happened into Snarf's for an Italian...the way I felt afterwards. Not clean food at all....but all the familiar (good) tastes. The experience reminds me why a place like the OSC is so badly needed: great tasting and healthy.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont goat dairy expanding operation - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:04:58 +0000

Non-organic Prison goat cheese. Confinement animals tended to and by confinement humans.

Daily Camera.com: : CU regents approve lowest tuition hike in nearly a decade for Boulder campus - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:00:00 +0000

I wonder how the course content has changed to merit such cost increases? Are they teaching new secrets to getting ahead in one's chosen field of study to facilitate faster pay-down of the student debit? It's astounding to think that a one year course cost is the equivalent to the selling price of a single family home not all that long ago...and still achievable in smaller rural communities. Buyer beware, I guess.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder Valley working on sewer gas mitigation at Casey over spring break - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:41:52 +0000

What's the difference between Casey and a one-room rural school house?

Daily Camera.com: : Ron Stewart, Boulder County\'s open space director, to scale back hours, salary - Boulder Daily Came

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 01:13:30 +0000

He advocated for and got GMO corn and sugar beet farming on our publicly owned Ag land.

Daily Camera.com: : Colorado adopts rules for oil and gas operations in flood zones - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 3 Mar 2015 23:22:13 +0000

The COGCC is a joke. It's nothing more than the house organ for oil and gas development throughout the state, and has completely failed to protect the public and environment from the toxic consequences because it's impossible to do when operations are literally in the middle of residential neighborhoods.

Daily Camera.com: : Editorial: Redefining environmentalism - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:17:06 +0000

Destructive to its future...while destroying the current quality of life. Perfectly "right in the middle" of what?

Daily Camera.com: : CDOT unveils new U.S. 36 Express Lanes tolls - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 01:44:36 +0000

I'm suggesting they fly the Skull & Crossbones flag at both ends to signify their Pirating ways.

Daily Camera.com: : Colorado oil, gas task force sends 9 measures on to governor\'s desk - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:24:46 +0000

What? No authority for individuals to refuse being poisoned? When all but one individual on the task force is connected to the industry, of course their recommendations will all support fracking full-speed-ahead...and over any and all obstacles standing in their way.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder team\'s film: Fighting fires in the age of climate change - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:45:57 +0000

Climate change is constant...such as to what events and conditions caused or precipitated the earth's entering and exiting the last ice age...? It is an interesting examination to consider mountain living in light of the high expense and amount of resources needed to support it, and in addition to this the costs born by the community at-large when fire events place the mountain homes at-risk. Is it fair? I don't believe so, but I believe the motivations are towards supporting the community at-large by protecting all homes and by extension home values/tax base. It's a weird formula any way you cut it because for all the development-minded effort currently underway in Boulder County, it seems to completely ignore the environmental loads and costs (air, water, contamination, pollution, disruptions etc.) that are created and outsourced to everyone and everything else. Do no harm...comes to mind.

Daily Camera.com: : Bob Norris: Opposed to Senate Bill 15-093 - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:52:31 +0000

Our culture, law and politcal systems are built on commerce which unfortunately relegates an individual's constitutional rights beneath mineral rights. In terms of financial loss, the current equation is highly corrupt insofar as those who live upon land where fracking takes place are forced to accept a reduced state of life and suffer the consequences of a toxic industrial process. Noise, traffic, chemicals, vibrations, toxic off-gasses, exhaust, combustion byproducts and reduced property value...all so another can make a profit. To me, the system is unconstitutional and unjust when one is forced to physically give up their rights, and in fact has no recognized legal authority under our current system to say no, where one industry can go wherever they want and do whatever they want to mine oil and gas. It's corrupt commerce where benefits at the expense of another by taking vital needs (clean air, water, peaceful enjoyment of home) via fracking.

Longmont Times-Call : Jim Hergenreder: Drilling firms don\'t have the right to endanger health and safety - Longmont Times

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:09:13 +0000

By comparison, how does one regulate the safety of a family that chooses to welcome a pack of wolves into their home? Regulation does Not remove risks but controls the amount and rates of harm. In light of placing one's safety into a financial reward equation, I believe the real costs are always under estimated.

Longmont Times-Call : Jim Hergenreder: Drilling firms don\'t have the right to endanger health and safety - Longmont Times

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:46:32 +0000

Sad commentary. Not being opposed to oil and gas drilling doesn't eliminate the health risks nor can it ever be regulated to safety. The two are inherently at odds. There are consequences from all industrial activities. Frackers are exempt from a host of EPA pollution rules. This means they can dump their hazardous waste directly into environment. People are regularly being lied to when suggesting fracking is safe. Read the report. Toxins are OK because it would cost too much money if they had to address it. Here's a very pretty EPA brochure that explains all the ugly details: http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/special/...

Daily Camera.com: : Colorado state lawmakers to hold Saturday town hall meeting in Boulder - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:01:46 +0000

3 frack-loving rule-makers.

Daily Camera.com: : Boulder \'potty peeper\' sentenced to six years in prison for probation violation - Boulder Daily Ca

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:49:00 +0000

Another sad example of judicial folly. This is not a solution to social or legal justice because it doesn't address underlying cause. The courts are the recruitment of the private prison industrial complex boasting the largest clientele in the developed world.