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A Public Affair

Good Ole’ CU

Spense Havlick former city council member and CU professor talks with Joe Juhasz about the relationships between CU and The City of Boulder. http://aa.kgnu.net/forcedownload.php?mp3file=APublicAffair/2014/APublicAffair_2014-03-26.mp3  

todayApril 2, 2014

Featured

The Boulder Tattoo Project

The Boulder Tattoo Project began last Spring as a living artwork, which celebrates community and love of Boulder.  As the name suggests, it’s a tattoo, or rather multiple tattoos… Over 200 participants got tattoos of  words and phrases from a love poem to Boulder. It began when local tattoo shop owner, […]

todayApril 2, 2014

Flood

Flood Awareness in Boulder

Yesterday marked the official start of the 2014 flood season and this week the city of Boulder launched its annual flood awareness information campaign which focuses on awareness, personal preparedness and recovery. In the wake of the floods of September 2013– the city is urging the message of personal awareness […]

todayApril 2, 2014

Fracking

A State Constitutional Amendment for Local Control

-by Maeve Conran. On Friday February 21st, a coalition of groups calling itself Local Control Colorado submitted language to the Colorado Legislative Services for a constitutional amendment to give local communities in Colorado control over  whether to allow  fracking in their communities. KGNU's Maeve Conran spoke with Kaye Fissinger of Local Control […]

todayMarch 31, 2014

Fracking

Tracing the Source of Methane in our Drinking Water

Flaming water faucets were infamously exposed in the documentaries Gasland and Gasland 2. The water isn’t catching fire–methane in the water is. People are deeply concerned that methane, dredged from kilometers down, is leaking into our drinking water supplies through poorly constructed and maintained oil and gas wells, but methane can be […]

todayMarch 31, 2014

Metro

Mascot Madness

As March Madness heats up, consider that most of the cherished real-life basketball team mascots are at risk. A new report from the National Wildlife Federation details how these species are really struggling to adapt to current environmental conditions – air pollution, waterways filled with mercury, rising sea levels and droughts. For example, in […]

todayMarch 31, 2014

Morning Magazine

Shared Skies

Shared Skies, an exhibit by Kim Abeles of digital prints of sky photographs taken by people from throughout the world, will be on display at the Art-Science Gallery in the National Science for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) fromApril 1 – June 30, 2014.The exhibit is a collaboration with Boulder based Eco-Arts […]

todayMarch 31, 2014

Capitol Coverage

Capitol Coverage: Capitol Coverage: Aerial Fire Fighting Fleet

Governor Hickenlooper’s top fire official released a new report saying Colorado needs an aerial fire fighting fleet for the upcoming wildfire season. As part of our capitol conversation series, Bente Birkeland  talks to reporters about the report and how it will factor into the budget debate. Listen to the report here.

todayMarch 31, 2014

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