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Are Residential Corporate Buyouts Slowing Across Colorado?

May 10, 2024 Like 0 Mary-Beth Skylis

Living in Colorado is hard. It’s not just the 8-foot snow drifts in the driveway. It’s the sheer cost of housing. Average housing costs range from $1,282 to $2,309 per month across the state, which is a contributing factor to…

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The Colorado River Water Emergency

May 10, 2024 2 0 Doug Geiling

In Nevada’s monstrous Lake Mead Reservoir, the term “dead pool” has a dual meaning. For hydrologists, dead pool represents a catastrophically low water level in a reservoir below which the water can no longer pass through the outlet works of…

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Boulder County Is Revamping Their Efforts for Wildfire Mitigation Two Years Post Marshall Fire

May 10, 2024 Like 0 Katie Mackinnon

It has been over two years since the Marshall Fire swept through the grasslands of Boulder County. The most destructive fire in Colorado history in terms of buildings destroyed, the fire took the lives of two and created irreparable damage…

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Build Colorado for Humans, not Cars

May 10, 2024 Like 0 Austin Clinkenbeard

Ean Tafoya recalled riding the bus with his mom when he was younger. “I was public transit-dependent, and I used to ride the bus until I was like 16,” he shared. He recalled positive memories and pride in taking the…

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Examining Oil & Gas’ Political Influence on the Front Range

May 10, 2024 Like 0 Austin Clinkenbeard

Fighting the machine Nick Saia lives in Colorado now, but he grew up on the salt marshes and estuaries of the Mississippi. He recalled swamp fishing, rabbit hunting, and boating out by the shack he and his father frequented. His…

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Drowning in a Sea of Homes

April 19, 2023 Like 0 Rebecca Purcell

Boulder and North Metro need to build for their future while addressing environmental concerns, confronting racism, and alleviating homelessness.

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Why Is It so Hard to Take the Bus Anywhere but to Boulder?

April 19, 2023 1 0 Evaristo Gomez

Car-centric models of development create urban sprawl and make planning bus routes to low density areas more difficult.

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The Power of Local Action: How Municipalities Are Making a Difference in Sustainability Efforts

April 19, 2023 1 0 Danielle MacKinlay

Has “sustainability” become an eye-rolling buzzword that’s tossed around boardrooms and shoehorned into public policy as an afterthought?

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Dehumanizing and Traumatic: Underinsurance Following a Major Disaster Can Be a Daunting Hill to Climb Alone

April 19, 2023 Like 0 Austin Clinkenbeard

Insurance companies have resisted changes to the industry that would benefit survivors of natural disasters, making it more difficult for homeowners facing this dire situation.

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Drought, Famine, Overpopulation, and a Lack of Water: What the Puebloans and the Colorado River Can Teach Us

April 19, 2023 Like 0 Austin Clinkenbeard

Examining Puebloan peoples’ responses to environmental change and growing agriculture can inform modern conservation efforts, but it still may not be enough.