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So millions of @Apple MacBooks/MacBook Pros were sold with the original MagSafe power adapter. How cool would it be if @AppleSupport came out with a with an older MagSafe to USB-C adapter to keep these old adapters out of landfills?
Support trails in Boulder County by entering for a chance to win a @MondrakerBikes Foxy R mountain bike! 😃 bouldermountainbike.rallyup.…
🍂 This week with BMA: Win a Bike, Trail Building, Group Rides & Skills Clinics - mailchi.mp/bouldermountainbi…
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Crews currently on scene for an active wildfire near Stone Canyon Road, Lyons, CO. Text BOCOinfo to 888777 for updates or go to BoulderODM.gov
"This gives us something to think about when we are sitting in traffic, just one of the tens of thousands of internal combustion engines rolling into Aspen every day — like miniature smelters on wheels with fancy rims." aspendailynews.com/opinion/s… @AspenDailyNews
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Moving to a 32-hour workweek with no loss of pay is not a radical idea. It's time for working people to benefit from advancements in AI, automation, and new technology, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street.
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This police department in Colorado is piloting a four-day working week
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Learn about the improvements coming to CO119 – aka The Diagonal Hwy. – between Boulder and Longmont that will make traveling through the corridor safer for all, as well as faster and more reliable for public transit.
📲 Online: codot.gov/projects/co119-mob…
📣 In-person open house: Wednesday, Dec. 13, 5:30-7 p.m. at Left Hand Grange, 195 2nd Ave, Niwot, CO 80544
@ColoradoDOT @RideRTD @bouldercolorado, @cityoflongmont #VisionZero #CO119
ALT Drivers of automobiles and a motorcycle travel along The Diagonal Highway with the Boulder Flatirons on the background in a CO 119 Safety, Mobility and Bikeway Project - Construction Phase graphic image.
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According to some obscure rag called, uh, the New York Times, CROSSINGS is one of the best books of 2023 — "a fascinating and sensitive look at the costs of roads."
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Boulder County is hiring a Vision Zero Program Manager to build a Vision Zero program from the ground up, developing and sustaining a data-driven and proactive approach that supports our Transportation Master Plan goal of eliminating fatal and serious injury crashes in unincorporated Boulder County by 2035. The position has an annual salary of $68k-$113k, and closes Nov 27, 2023. governmentjobs.com/careers/b… #VisionZero
ALT Rural road in Boulder County, Colorado.
“Indoor air has never been like this in the history of humanity until now…”
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Colorado once again leads the nation in having the biggest gap between teacher pay and pay for other college-educated workers. Teachers made an average 37.4% less in 2022 than their similarly educated peers. #copolitics #coleg #cogov epi.org/publication/teacher-…
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Join us for the Boulder to Erie Regional Trail (BERT) master plan public meeting at the Erie Community Library on Wed 9/13, anytime from 5-7 p.m. A project presentation will begin at 5:30. Learn about rail options between Boulder and Erie!
Learn more at boco.org/BERT
“The coronavirus is an airborne threat, and the incidence of Covid was about 40 percent lower in schools that improved air quality, one study found.”
“We were supposed to have the windows open,” he said. “But the windows don’t open.”
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#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
“We were supposed to have the windows open,” he said. “But the windows don’t open.”
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#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
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This is why we believe people should play a part in designing the places they live.
ALT desire path next time walking/biking lane
“The number of speeding-related deaths increased nationally since the start of the pandemic, and was a factor in 29% of traffic deaths in 2021.”
Passions run high over speed limits, but data is hard to come by route-fifty.com/infrastructu… My story for @routefifty
“Overall, the ventilation in this theater was awful which created a space with much higher risk than necessary.” #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver
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In Opinion
"The longer I stayed, the more I became curious about my home," Cassady Rosenblum writes. "I finally wanted to know what everyone always wants to know about West Virginia: How can we be both so beautiful and so damned?" nyti.ms/3O0DKEh
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Lawmakers promised Utah's toughest-in-the-nation DUI law would save lives. But the state set a new record for fatalities in 2022 (and 2021 and 2020).
The law isn't working because 0.05 doesn't target the real problem. #utpol
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