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Erie’s Path to Cannabis Sales: Erie Plays Catchup One Year After Becoming a Home Rule Town

November 20, 2024 Like 0 Hope Muñoz

Erie voters hit the polls on Nov. 4, passing a new ballot measure imposing a five percent sales tax on cannabis sales and ending the town’s cannabis moratorium on Jan.1, 2025. This begs the question: why did it take so…

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Ten Community Organizations Call for More Public Input on Boulder County Commissioners’ Affordable Housing Tax Decision

November 18, 2024 Like 0 Mohammed Ahmad

The Boulder County commissioners, Claire Levy, Marta Loachamin, and Ashley Stolzmann, have voted on broad categories of affordable funding for county issue 1B funds without benefit from any public hearings at which the public was invited to discuss with the…

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Superior Special Election on Home Rule Charter Set for December 10

November 14, 2024 Like 0 Ray Manzari

On December 10, Superior residents will vote in a special election to approve or reject a proposed Home Rule Charter, a step that could grant the town greater independence in local governance. This election will be conducted entirely by mail.…

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ECMC Delays Decision on Draco Pad, Hearing Rescheduled for Friday, November 15 at 9 a.m.

November 13, 2024 1 0 editor

Staff contribution Today, the Colorado Energy Carbon & Management Commission (ECMC) deliberated on the Draco Oil & Gas Development Project (OGDP) during their regularly scheduled weekly meeting. The Draco OGDP consists of 26 horizontal wellbores, which will run an unprecedented…

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Elections and Holidays: At Least We Have Christmas to Look Forward To

November 9, 2024 Like 0 redtornado

Sitting down to write this month’s Publisher’s Note has been tough. This past week has pretty much been wasted. I have a long to-do list, and as an independent media still committed to true journalism, I can’t afford to take…

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The Price of Eggs

November 8, 2024 1 0 Steve Nelson

I posted this abbreviated history lesson in many social media nooks yesterday. It seemed to be greeted with yawns, although I’m an amateur at generating clicks. 2016 – competent white woman lost to disgusting white man 2020- mediocre white male…

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What Just Happened: Election Results From Colorado Ballot Measures to Democratic Defeat

November 6, 2024 Like 0 Associate Editor

Waking up this morning to a snow-covered Denver, I reflected on last night’s events with a surreal platitude one reserves for dreams. I felt a strange disconnectedness from the world around me, a creeping apathetic hedonism that will likely propel…

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Blue Immunity: Holding Law Enforcement Accountable

November 5, 2024 Like 0 Mohammed Ahmad

In the wake of the senseless murder of Elijah McClain, who was murdered during an unhinged encounter by police officer Randy Roedema and reckless paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, Colorado has found itself once again grappling with the ongoing…

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‘I Don’t Want Erie to Become a Test Site’: Residents Concerned About Draco Well Pad to Drill Under Their Homes

November 1, 2024 1 0 Natalie Kerr

Update: Public Notice from the ECMC At the request of Extraction and Petitioner Southern Land Company, the Extraction Draco OGDP hearing will be continued, otherwise known as postponed, one week to November 13, 2024. This has been noted on the…

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Boulder’s Municipal Airport Remains in Limbo Pending Litigation

November 1, 2024 Like 0 Mary-Beth Skylis

Boulder’s Municipal Airport was established nearly a century ago in 1928, as a destination for business flying, law enforcement, and recreation. Through the years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided grants to the city to support the airport’s operation and…