Thursday, May 16,2013
City unearths contamination at teahouse site
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
Something unsightly has gotten a bit too close to one of Boulder’s crown jewels. An environmental contractor hired to deal with possibly hazardous materials from an old gasification plant near the Dushanbe Teahouse downtown has confirmed the need to clean up contamination at the site.
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Thursday, May 16,2013
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
1770 13th St. wasn’t always a center of Boulder culture. For more than 50 years it was home to a towngas manufacturing plant that appears to have left behind a serious mess in the form of soil and groundwater contamination, contamination that is proving to be quite a challenge to clean up, mostly because the City of Boulder built a plaza and a teahouse right on top of it even after it knew the subsurface contamination was an issue.
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Thursday, March 28,2013
Impacts of seismic testing for oil/gas exploration disputed
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
While much has been made of fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, another possibly negative side effect of oil and gas operations has emerged. It’s called seismic testing, and it’s beginning to cause a stir nationally.
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Thursday, March 21,2013
Is county government depriving our economy of millions of dollars by making the wrong choice on open space lands?
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
It’s springtime in Boulder County. Birds are building nests, lawns get a little greener with each passing day and, like the swallows to Capistrano, the talk of how to stop genetically modified organisms (GMOs) from being planted on county open space lands has returned.
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Thursday, February 28,2013
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
Among the unanticipated costs that the city might take on is the responsibility for cleaning up a site that is likely more contaminated than the adjacent Valmont Butte property, a site that Boulder Weekly devoted a 10-part series to documenting in 2012 due to the environmental hazards the city has inherited after purchasing the property in 2000.
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Thursday, February 28,2013
Could the city's plans for a new utility blow up in Boulder's face?
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
There is no question that city staff and their hired experts did a great deal of quality work to arrive at their conclusions. But even so, their report to council is based on several assumptions that simply are not as black and white as they would have us believe.
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Thursday, October 18,2012
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
With the sad discovery of Jessica Ridgeway’s dismembered body last week, the task has now shifted from finding the 10-year-old girl to solving her murder as quickly as possible.
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Thursday, September 20,2012
With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected into the inner earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
April 10, 1967, was no ordinary day in Boulder County. What started out like any other spring morning quickly became anything but, as buildings began to shake and the sound of broken glass filled the air.
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Thursday, July 12,2012
Appearance of impropriety continues to plague city leaders
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
A troubling pattern of secrecy and conflicts of interest continues to unfold among certain members of Boulder city government.
This week’s email spat among a few council members and staffers is just the latest example of questionable actions — and inactions — of Boulder’s elected officials and the people they hire and supervise.
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Thursday, May 24,2012
By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
Among the allegations raised by local political gadfly Seth Brigham — just before he was slapped with a restraining order by the city — was that Karakehian did not properly declare his 2011 financial interests in a form required to be completed by city council candidates.
