Cheat Sheet
Erie Biscuit Day
The 11th Annual Erie Biscuit Day is set to go. Here's a taxonomical breakdown of the porous plate cleaner.
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Lafayette’s Fluoride Frenzy
The battleground for stopping water fluoridation in Lafayette has been and is continuing to be fought in their city council. Here are some pros and cons.
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Tweeting Happy
In a recent study, three Boulder County cities were named among the top 15 happiest cities in the country.
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Inside Out/Outside In
A Look at Two New Sports Facilities: Erie’s Outdoor Velodrome and Longmont’s Indoor Soccer Arena
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What is the Fiscal Cliff?
While the passage of Election Day has eliminated most political buzzwords from the lexicon, there’s one term we’re hearing with increasing breathlessness: “fiscal cliff.” It’s a reference to more than just economic calamity in general, but to a specific set…
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Cheat Sheet: The Beer Runs Through It
“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.” Homer Simpson said that, of course, and it makes you wonder whether Springfield is located in Colorado. While not resorting to Homer’s extremes, the simple truth is…
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Barely a Bronze Medal in Education
With the Olympics dovetailing nicely with August’s typical back-to-school frenzy, we thought it would be a good time to see how the old “U-S-A” stacks up against the rest of the world in the gold-medal competition of educational spending and…
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How to predict a drought
No major rivers flow into Colorado, meaning that all of the water used here—for everything from filling the swimming pool to watering the lawn—comes from the mountain snowpack. But what if, like this year, the normally snowiest month of March…
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Here’s Your Sign
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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