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Greg Campbell

Crazy, Fit and Covered in Mud

May 14, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

You don’t need to have ever participated in the Tough Mudder to know that it’s one tough mother of a race. Actually, scratch that. The Tough Mudder specifies that it’s not a “race,” but a “challenge,” which makes sense when…

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Month in Review

April 16, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

A Lafayette man was ticketed for animal abuse when he tethered his cat to a rock after the animal refused to jog with him; police received calls that the cat was being attacked by “a flock of birds” while the…

Cheat Sheet

Here’s Your Sign

April 16, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

You see them on practically every street corner, the royalty of human billboards, those iconic Liberty Tax rump-shakers and sign-wavers. But with Tax Day looming on April 17, they will soon vanish, leaving commuters with no one to stare at…

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Derailed

April 16, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

After nearly a decade of planning, years of tax collection and millions of dollars already spent, the future of mass transit in Boulder County came down to a last-minute scramble of new ideas that had been proposed and rejected as…

Features

The Annual Transportation Issue

April 16, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Yellow Scene Magazine’s Greg Campbell explores various aspects of driving, commuting and moving on the Front Range: A Parent’s Final Frontier Derailed: A look at FasTracks Show me the Stimulus

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A Parent’s Final Frontier

April 13, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

The other day, I came downstairs to find the timer on the oven blaring, announcing for who-knows-how-long that dinner was beyond ready. My teenage son sat 10 feet away, watching a Nuggets game on TV, oblivious. His only reaction was…

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Recycling and Surviving in a Down Economy

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

One of the benefits of recycling is that you can begin to see the interconnectedness of everything, how your decisions as a consumer and a waste-producer can reverberate through communities and regions of the world, for better and for worse.…

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Keepin’ it Real Estate

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Ah, Boulder County—home of inspiring views, laid back lifestyles…and an apparently recession-proof (or at least more recession-resistant than other areas of the country) housing market. It’s a buyer’s delight almost anywhere else, with housing prices nationally still 32 percent lower…

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Cheat Sheet: Where your news comes from

March 20, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Boulder County is the sixth most populous county in Colorado and encompasses more than 751 square miles of land. Yet no matter where you live, it’s likely that you get your news from just one source: MediaNews Group, the Denver-based…

Online News

Welcome to Colorado, Blago!

March 15, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

This afternoon, Colorado will have a new permanent resident, for at least the next 12 years and possibly for as long as 14. But he won’t be enjoying the usual perks, like weekend skiing, summer jaunts to bluegrass festivals or…