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For whom the road tolls
Other than drinking coffee in the UMC and beer at The Sink, is there any more widely-shared experience among CU-Boulder alumni than driving up the turnpike from Denver and seeing Boulder and the university from the top of Davidson Mesa?
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Power to the People
Boulder is going to have a city election this fall, and the hot issue is power to the people. No, it isn’t one of those pesky ’60s flashbacks. It’s about electricity – who will supply it and how it will be made. For years the city fathers and mothers have been pushing Xcel Energy to supply Boulder with more carbon-free
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“Oops-dang” radioactive moments at Rocky Flats
Japan’s nuclear mess brings to mind some local nuclear “oops-dang!” moments at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant south of Boulder.
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Jammin’ with The Woz
Paul Danish tells a story about an icon and his colorful past.
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The best meal ever at the Gold Hill Inn
Dinner at the Gold Hill Inn is always a special occasion, but no visit to the inn was more special than the one my wife Sue and I made Sept. 23.
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Why the sundial faces north
It was Christmas in July around here this year, but the gods are still angry. (More about that in a moment.) Just before July 4 President Obama announced that Abound Solar, a company that makes state-of-the-art solar panels at a plant in Longmont, would get a $400 million loan guarantee that, among other things, will allow it to double its
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Tagged chemical engineering, George Lof, norlin sundial, solar panel
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You can never be too smart or too thin
A couple of years ago a Forbes magazine survey concluded that Boulder was the smartest city in the country. Now comes word from the Gallup Poll that Boulder is the second thinnest.
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Tagged boulder, colorado, gallup poll, smartest, thinnest
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Big oil in, big science out
Big changes are coming to Boulder County. Big oil is moving in. Big science is moving out.
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Tagged big oil, big science, conoco, cray, louisville, microsystems, phillips, storagetek, sun, supercomputer
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“Buffanaut” herd stampedes into space
By the time President John F. Kennedy gave his Sept. 12, 1962, speech making the case for America to go boldly into space, one CU alum had already been there and done that.
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CU’s high-flying president
CU president Roland Rautenstraus had a fear of flying. Paul Danish tells the story behind it and how it changed.
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