The Colorado secretary of state’s office is mum on where it will come down on the Boulder County canvass board’s refusal to certify local election results, but it would be a shock if the Nov. 6 results were not upheld.
Josh Fox, the creator of Gasland, the documentary film that helped catalyze national activism against hydraulic fracturing, will be the guest speaker at an anti-fracking fundraiser in Boulder on Dec. 2.
There is an Army Reserve building on Table Mesa Drive that has long sat empty, and a couple of local activists would like to put it to good use for some of Boulder’s less fortunate.
A couple of years ago, a group that got its start in the late 1970s blocking railroad tracks in a successful effort to close Rocky Flats ran into some budget trouble.
In what election integrity activists say is yet another example of transparency problems at the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, a top election official told a canvass board member this week that the group’s meetings are not open to the public.
As Boulder County officials mull tougher regulations on oil and gas operations such as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a key component will be setbacks, the minimum distance between wells and sensitive areas.
City of Boulder officials have announced that the $5 million cleanup of the contaminated 103-acre property the city bought 12 years ago is over budget by more than $1.4 million and will be completed three months late.
Lynn Katoa was a four-star football prospect coming out of his senior year in high school in 2007, a major recruiting coup for head coach Dan Hawkins and assistant Brian Cabral. But success on the playing field would never materialize for the star high school linebacker.