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Help wanted: Supporters for coal lobby

By | 05.25.12 | 1:23 pm

DENVER — The coal industry is resorting to online classifieds to bolster its ranks.

“We hear stories of people paying folks $50 through Craigslist to come and wear shirts supporting ‘Coal for America,’” Lisa Jackson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator and surprise guest at the “Rebel With A Cause” gala, told a ballroom of activists on Thursday night.

Survival tales, mitigation questions linger as Fourmile Fire rages

By | 09.08.10 | 1:23 am

BOULDER — As firefighters continued to battle the raging Fourmile Fire Tuesday and evacuees relived harrowing survival tales, politicians were already questioning wildfire mitigation efforts in the area and seeking future funding.

Stragglers, others can vote at the polls in Colorado mail-in primary Tuesday

By | 08.09.10 | 3:54 pm

In Colorado, Primary Day is tomorrow. There will be little real exit polling. There will be no real lines at the polls, no real polling place socializing and no New Black Panther polling place intimidation! Why? Because it’s going to…

Romanoff: Blustery Wednesday morning but all business Tuesday night

By | 03.17.10 | 1:24 pm

This morning Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff gave a hard-driving press conference, making the case that grassroots voters had spoken when they handed him a victory in the caucus voting Tuesday night. Huddling with hipster-staffers as the vote…

Clean-energy improvement districts cropping up on Nov. ski county ballots

By | 09.22.09 | 11:08 am

Voters in both Pitkin and Eagle counties – homes to Aspen and Vail ski areas, respectively – will be asked to approve special clean-energy improvement districts Nov. 3, nudging the two increasingly progressive ski towns ever closer to total Boulder-ization.…

News Nuggets: 24 July 2009

By | 07.24.09 | 3:20 pm

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BUREAUCRATS GONE WILD: Boulder County management has had to have the talk with employees: “New policy requires county workers to get approval from department heads before sending “tweets” on Twitter — short text messages…

BoCo Buzz: Ch-ch-ch-changes Continue

By | 07.13.07 | 1:00 pm

We’d pattern this post after Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s on First,” but: A) it may be more confusing than that and B) you young `uns probably never heard of them.

So, first, to the Boulder City Council where conventional…

Boulder Buzz: Weissmann in the Race

By | 06.28.07 | 11:01 am

Another race is on in Boulder County after County Commissioner Tom Mayer, of Lafayette, died June 22 of cancer.

State Rep. Paul Weissmann is now among the candidates to replace Mayer, as John Aguilar
reports