In 2004, area voters approved a 0.4 percent sales tax as part of the FasTracks ballot initiative. The money collected from the tax was to be entrusted to the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in exchange for its promise to build, among other things, a Northwest Rail that would ultimately provide Boulder, Longmont and Lafayette with a link into Denver’s light rail system.

Several assertions have made their way into the lexicon of environmental monitoring and remediation at Valmont Butte over the years, but nobody is questioning them because it would likely cost more money to clean up the butte if the suspect information were found to be even partially wrong. How much more money? Possibly tens of millions of dollars, or even more if human health issues are involved.

Every year, thousands of people worldwide flock to Nederland and celebrate the cryogenically maintained body of an 89-year-old Norwegian man, a.k.a. the frozen dead guy.

The City of Boulder is lawyering up for its battle with Xcel over municipalization. City officials are expecting to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next year to two law firms that will represent Boulder as it investigates municipalizing its electric utility.

When the city of Boulder buried radium-contaminated soil years ago at Allied Chemical’s Valmont Butte mill site, it carried serious ramifications. Ramifications that continue to haunt the site.

In Colorado, when we think of snow, we often think of skiing. But for the tens of millions of people who live in the river basin that bears our state’s name, in places like Arizona and California, our snowpack means much more.

The son of Indian immigrants, Vikram Gandhi’s relationship with faith is fairly typical for someone with his upbringing. His parents raised him in Hindu traditions, but the religious rituals he became immersed in served more as a reminder of his familial history than a strict religious doctrine.

Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension,” photographer James Balog says in his 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk. “Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions —even the unconscious at times — and of course the aesthetic.

2:45 p.m. Film: Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Saving the World.

Bill Plympton is a cheater. He admits it freely. He even brings up the fact without being asked. Bill Plympton is a cheater because he doesn’t draw an animation for every frame of a movie, but rather for every three frames.