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E-motos are illegal on Boulder streets; ending Trump’s tyranny will take significant effort (Letters)
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (396+ words) E-motos are illegal on Boulder streets; ending Trump's tyranny will take significant effort (Letters)Boulder Daily Camera There is an abundance of e-motos that have foot rests but no pedals on the streets of Boulder. The minors who have these…...
Data centers aren’t to blame for water scarcity; no winners in federal crackdown (Letters)
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (373+ words) With water scarcity rising across the West, data centers have been cast as a new environmental villain. Headlines increasingly focus on the water needed to cool servers and power artificial intelligence, often without comparing those figures to other major water…...
Federal officials pursue own Colorado River management plans as states try to overcome impasse
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1352+ words) Absent a crucial but elusive consensus among the seven Colorado River states, federal authorities are forging ahead with their own ideas on how to divvy up painful water cuts as climate change diminishes flows in the critical river. The Bureau…...
Boulder City Council waiting on pursuing gray water systems
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (170+ words) Anyone hoping to use gray water in the city of Boulder for the next two years may have another thing coming. A laundry-to-landscape gray water system, for example, connects a pipe to a washing machine that transfers that water into…...
Woman seriously injured after pickup truck driver hit her while walking dog in Boulder crosswalk
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (149+ words) A woman was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a pickup truck driver struck her in a Boulder crosswalk while she was walking her dog. At about 8:01 a.m. Tuesday, the driver of a Nissan Titan pickup hit the woman…...
The Colorado River needs compromise not reckless threats and hyperbole (Editorial)
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (427+ words) Arizona and California's chief water negotiators are coming for Colorado in a blistering public pressure campaign aimed at getting upper basin states to capitulate. In'an interview with the L.A. Times, the negotiator for California accused the upper basin states of Wyoming,…...
Holy Family football’s Kaden Hopkin plays hero in comeback win over Mead
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (572+ words) LONGMONT " Throughout its first few games of the season, Mead football was the giant in Class 3A that nobody could seem to take down. Holy Family's Kaden Hopkin was the asteroid the Mavericks didn't see coming. The last three minutes of…...
Future of Colorado River must be efficiency; Benjamin exemplifies the best of public service; this election, hold on to hope (Letters)
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (363+ words) These programs already exist. IID pays farmers for per-acre-foot conservation. The federal government offers $300400 per acre-foot for verified savings. What we need now is scale, speed and transparent measurement using modern satellite evapotranspiration tools. My hope is that the future…...
Critics call for Broomfield City Council member’s resignation following opinion piece
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (476+ words) Following the publication of an opinion piece in the Broomfield Enterprise, several public commenters in the Broomfield City Council's weekly meeting spoke against Ward 1 Councilmember James Marsh-Holschen's words, with some calling for him to resign. Marsh-Holschen's opinion has drawn criticism…...
Chance of Colorado River deal is ‘tenuous’ just two months before federal deadline, negotiator says
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (975+ words) The likelihood of Western states reaching a consensus on a plan for the future of the Colorado River is dimming as time runs out for the negotiators tasked with dividing up the shrinking river relied upon by 40 million people. "The…...