Meg Collins, former president of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association, is against municipalization. Not particularly surprising.

I love the concept. Please come to Boulder, I would definitely shop there!

How would it make any sense to lower Xcel's requirement from 30% to 15% (for 2020) when they are already above 20% today? http://www.xcelenergy.com/Company/Operations/Powe...

The actual URL appears to be www.busthenbike.com.

They likely weren't directly targeted. Rather, the hackers found an exploit in a specific piece or version of software and automatically crawled the internet to find websites that were vulnerable. The Longmont Humane Society just happened to be one.

What a shame, my girlfriend and I loved to get clothes from Savers. Makes me thankful that Goodwill opened up at Baseline, I guess I'll be going there from now on.

The Whole Foods at Baseline & Broadway just finished their multimillion dollar renovation less than a year ago. I'd be surprised if they would throw that money away by shuttering the location, but I guess it's possible.

I'm sure some will disagree with me, but the mission behind preserving historic buildings in Boulder (and elsewhere) is quite remarkable to me. What other objects in our lives are given local government protections like this? Cars? Clothes? Household items? Should we be forcing people to have to keep (and get formal approval to improve) their 1950s cars and refrigerators? How much land are we willing to dedicate to these buildings? In the year 2050, will 75% of our town be considered historic?

These old buildings, like old cars and refrigerators, are terribly energy inefficient. Yes, they can be improved, but often the historic building ordinances specifically prevent the types of efficiency improvements that ought to be made to these buildings -- like adding insulation to the facade, replacing windows, or installing solar panels on optimally-oriented roofs. I mean, look at what they say on their website[1]: "the energy efficiency benefits often do not outweigh the loss of an important character-defining feature of a historic house." That statement is not aligned with my ideals. How are we supposed to achieve strong, progressive climate change goals when we have policies in place like this that discourage it? And the benefits of energy efficiency are more than just saving energy -- talk to the people that live or work in these buildings and have to put up with very uncomfortable spaces.

I find it unfortunate that here in Boulder, a self-proclaimed progressive city, we have so many policies in place that discourage change and innovation at the expense of keeping things exactly how they are, or were. Apparently we don't want more innovative, efficient buildings, we don't want the population to increase, we don't want higher density, etc -- these are all bad and will have to take place outside Boulder. The bubble is preserved. I assume these are the same people that think cell phones and computers are evil, mostly because they don't understand them and didn't grow up with them and dislike change. Maybe we should learn to be more open-minded.

[1] https://bouldercolorado.gov/pages/frequently-aske...

According to the NREL website (http://www.nrel.gov/about/nwtc.html), the address is:
National Wind Technology Center Site Entrance Building — Louisville
18299 West 120th Avenue
Louisville, CO 80027

Which would mean that it's located in Boulder County.

Then again, it's such a minor issue -- does it really matter?

Once again, the Boulder voters have a very different opinion than the libertarians that comment on every DC article. Glad to see that this passed with such a wide margin.