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  • These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    Story by Rae Solomon/KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Researchers at Colorado State University’s Master Gardener program have finally settled the age-old question of which tomatoes and peppers grow best in Northern Colorado, where the growing season is notoriously short and difficult. Their answers are the result of five years of field experiments that took root in a garden bed in northeast Fort Collins, coordinated by Master Gardener volunteer and retired seed breeder Jon Weiss. While most moderately skilled Colorado gardeners can certainly eke a crop out of hundreds of tomato and pepper varieties, Weiss said that a knowledge gap persisted about

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  • These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    These are the tomatoes and peppers that grow best in Northern Colorado

    Story by Rae Solomon/KUNC (Via AP Storyshare) Researchers at Colorado State University’s Master Gardener program have finally settled the age-old question of which tomatoes and peppers grow best in Northern Colorado, where the growing season is notoriously short and difficult. Their answers are the result of five years of field experiments that took root in a garden bed in northeast Fort Collins, coordinated by Master Gardener volunteer and retired seed breeder Jon Weiss. While most moderately skilled Colorado gardeners can certainly eke a crop out of hundreds of tomato and pepper varieties, Weiss said that a knowledge gap persisted about

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  • To Find Money, Shift How Boulder Does Transportation

    To Find Money, Shift How Boulder Does Transportation

    First Appeared as a Guest Column for The Boulder Bulletin By Ryan Schuchard, March 4, 2024 Look underneath many of Boulder’s challenges—homelessness, closed swimming pools and parks, families moving out of the city—and you’ll find a common denominator: insufficient funds to meet our demands. On the other hand, one place where resources are untapped is our transportation system. Here I see the potential for meaningful shifts that could save our community real money. #1. PLAN TO DO MORE WITH LESS Our community planning primarily focuses on accommodating personal motor vehicles, visible through many strategies within city policies. We prioritize the

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  • Hate-Crimes Townhall in Boulder: A Discussion on Community Discrimination or a Photo-Op For Elected Officials?

    Hate-Crimes Townhall in Boulder: A Discussion on Community Discrimination or a Photo-Op For Elected Officials?

    No meaningful solutions proposed at town hall on hate crime Author Note: There is no tolerance for intolerance in Boulder, in Colorado, or in the nation. Safe communities free from hate crime are essential to the well-being of Boulder and the state as a whole. We all collectively need to use tangible solutions to stamp out hate where it springs up. This discussion was a good and necessary thing to do. However, despite Dougherty’s office reaching out to Yellow Scene Magazine to cover the event, a staffer from his office had zero knowledge of any reporter coming to cover the

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  • True Justice Unveiled: NAACP Boulder County Partner with MOTUS Theater for Prison Documentary Screening

    True Justice Unveiled: NAACP Boulder County Partner with MOTUS Theater for Prison Documentary Screening

    False accusations and prison labor institutionally oppress people of color To be falsely accused of a crime is not a concern occupying the minds of most, yet this reality disproportionately impacts people of color in the United States. Various examples o are brought to light in the documentary “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.” A notable case is that of Anthony Hinton, who was accused and falsely convicted of the robbery and murder of two restaurant managers. He was sentenced to death and served 28 years on death row before his exoneration in 2015. Hinton published a book about

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  • A Local Erie Ruling May Indicate a Statewide Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

    A Local Erie Ruling May Indicate a Statewide Shift Away From Fossil Fuels

    The drilling continues in Coyote Trails It was late spring of 2023 and David Frank was doing routine reviews of permits filed near Erie when he stumbled across something strange. Extraction Oil and Gas had filed seven new permits to drill at Coyote Trails, a site the community believed had finished drilling.  Frank, who was the Town of Erie’s energy and environmental programs specialist at the time, reached out to the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) to see what they planned on doing.  This was the first time that one of the about 4,900 drilling projects that were approved

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