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Who killed the vote on fracking?—Glossary
Advanced Energy Economy (AEE/ AEEI) A trade association that serves and advocates for the energy industry. The Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI) was cofounded by Tom Steyer and is the educational, research and funding wing of the group. AEE/AEEI supports ...
Big oil in small schools
In the last year, various members of the oil and gas industry have visited the students of a Boulder high school environmental group. School officials invited those industry folks most of the time, but some questions have since arisen...
Dancing in the dark
What could Boulder Weekly possibly find wrong with the city of Boulder’s public dance program? This program, which brings joy to thousands of Boulder’s most rhythmic citizens, young and old, couldn’t possibly stoke flames of controversy, could it? And if it could, ...
news briefs
Papers across the Front Range could be up for grabs as Digital First Media “evaluates” options...
At Amazon, ‘cheap’ comes at a very hefty price
In his classic 1936 comedy, Modern Times, silent filmmaker Charlie Chaplin depicted the trials and tribulations of a harried factory worker trying to cope with the sprockets, cogs, conveyor belts and managerial “efficiencies” of the new industrial culture. The poor ...
Too close for comfort
A new study led by researchers at Yale University says that living closer to an active natural gas well, including hydraulic fracking wells, could lead to an increase in skin and respiratory conditions...
The art of resilience
A few years ago, photographer Peggy Dyer had what she says in “yoga terms” — Dyer herself is a yogi — one might call “a spiritual awakening...
A flood of data
It’s not news that there’s valuable information hidden within the noise of social media. There’s the obvious use for business marketing, but social media offers bigger gains for society at large. The world watched in late 2009 as Iranians used social media platforms ...
Center of controversy
Until the day construction ends (and probably long after), a small plot of land in downtown Boulder reserved for a civic center will continue to serve only as the city’s center of controversy. That day, after more than 25 years, is about to be realized...
A unifying field of dreams
The note with a subject line “The Q – Summer Prison Baseball” came out of, shall we say, left field, right after New Year’s...
