After graduating from the Naval Academy, landing planes on aircraft carriers, and flying cargo around the world in FedEx jets for almost 30 years, retirement requires a worthwhile pursuit. For Stuart Cummings, a former aerospace engineer and current Boulder resident, carbon-neutralizing his life — and helping others do the same — seems a valuable pastime. […]
Posted inArts & Community
On donated land in northeast Boulder, the teaching legacy of pioneering ceramics artist Betty Woodman lives on in new building
The legacy of ceramics artist Betty Woodman, the CU Boulder professor who died in 2018, is indelible in Boulder art circles and worldwide. Woodman was the first living woman to have a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2006. Now, that legacy will be memorialized in an expanded Boulder […]
Posted inOutdoors
Latest repairs on Mount Sanitas reflect challenge of upkeeping Boulder’s most popular, but poorly designed, trails
Over the course of several hours last Tuesday, trail workers strapped 75 bags of sandstone mined from a quarry on the east side of Mount Sanitas to a helicopter. The stone, weighing 52 tons, was then flown to the nearby Mount Sanitas Trail, one of the city’s most popular hikes located less than a mile […]
Posted inBusiness
Local startup Nigh wants to help Boulder businesses solve one of their biggest challenges
Though just a year old, sales at Boulder’s The Waffle Lab on University Hill were exceeding expectations on most days. Except for Thursdays, between 3 and 6 p.m., the restaurant’s slowest time of the week. “During that time, we would get one or two customers,” said Brad Roumaya, owner of The Waffle Lab. So in […]
Posted inClimate Change
Opponents of the CU South annexation want a deal with 500-year flood protection. So did everyone else in Boulder.
This November, Boulder voters will decide whether to repeal an agreement between the city and the University of Colorado that sets the terms for developing the South Boulder property known as CU South. At stake is a flood mitigation project designed to protect about 2,300 residents who live in the South Boulder Creek floodplain. The […]
Posted inLocal Government
Boulder’s 2022 election: What to know and what’s at stake
With the Nov. 8, 2022 election less than three weeks away, ballots should be in hand any day now. Boulder Reporting Lab is here to help voters make sense of what’s at stake in this year’s election. Our guide this year is centered around city and relevant county issues, as well as races for seats […]
Posted inClimate Change
Boulder’s farmland is becoming desert. A solution? Look to beavers and prairie dogs.
Boulder’s semi-arid climate puts it ever at risk of becoming desert. Today, some land around town — about a thousand of Boulder’s 16,000 agricultural acres — is succumbing to that risk. Unless we intervene, acres available to local farmers could drastically decrease in the coming years and decades. Solutions, none of them easy, range from […]
Posted inClimate Change
Issue 1A explained: Sales tax increase would help Boulder County prepare for the wildfires surge
As fire season engulfs the full year, as homes are built on landscapes made to burn, as water becomes more precious but more likely to be sullied by ash, this November residents of Boulder County will decide whether fire mitigation is worth an additional sales tax. County issue 1A would add a .1% sales tax […]
Posted inTransportation
Boulder officials eye changes to neighborhood parking permit program and downtown meters
New parking policies may kick in this spring, making it easier to find a spot for your car downtown. City of Boulder officials are recommending raising the cost of street parking to $2 per hour across much of the city’s downtown. The change is part of a strategy to free up spaces for visitors by […]
Posted inClimate Change
Can A.I. help detect Boulder County’s next wildfire? We may soon find out.
Algorithms are scanning for smoke in Boulder County. Part of a six-month trial period, Boulder is seeing how three cameras, backed by artificial intelligence, can help fire districts manage their fire-prone landscapes. Made by a company called Pano AI, each camera cost $25,000. That initial investment includes the AI system, intelligence center service and hardware. […]