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Hello everyone! This is Bill Spriggs and I have found several news articles, links, and blogs that I wanted to share along THE BACK FENCE & beyond in the Sunday, February 12, 2012 Edition. |
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Denver & Colorado
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BoulderDailyCamera.com
Boulder, Rest of U.S. 36 Corridor Struggle With FasTracks Future
By Heath Urie, Feb 09, 2012
With the clock ticking for the Regional Transportation District to decide what to do about the future of the FasTracks rail system, officials throughout the U.S. 36 corridor are struggling to come to consensus on the best path forward.
READ MORE... LongmontTimesCall.com State Lawmakers Push RTD for Completion of FasTracks' Northwest Corridor By the Times-Call staff, Feb 07, 2012
Twelve Democratic state legislators on Tuesday sent a letter to RTD asking it to honor its promise to build the Northwest Corridor of FasTracks, which will connect Longmont and Boulder to Denver. READ MORE...DenverInFill.com
Denver Union Station Update Big News!! For the first time on the project, there is construction activity in front of and adjacent to the historic building.
TheDenverPost.com/Guest Commentary Advanced Energy Sources
By Tom Steyer & Tom Clark, Feb 12, 2012 Last month, President Obama stood up at Buckley Air Force Base and vowed not to walk away from the promise of clean energy. That he chose Colorado for his speech is telling. With a strong military presence and a vibrant advanced energy entrepreneurial community - Colorado has ranked third in clean technology venture investment for the past three years - the state is poised as the laboratory of the nation's energy future.
READ MORE... [Editor's comment to below: And now a word from the past and from those hooked on Oil who shout at us and tell us that their automobile represents their personal freedom. My short response to Mr. Carroll: Countries are like addicted junkies on Heroin; when they run out of cheap energy they need their desperate fix -- and when they can't find it, they might go to war to find it. And as we all know, Freedom isn't Free]. TheDenverPost.com/opinion
Carroll: Cheap Gas Equals Jobs By Vincent Carroll, Feb 12, 2012
It's been a while since Washington politicians and bureaucrats were extolling the alleged benefits of rising energy prices and championing policy that would drive them up quicker, all in the name of green jobs and climate virtue. Perhaps slow growth and stubborn unemployment, like the gallows, tend to concentrate the mind. |
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DC.StreetsBlog.org
Six Lies the GOP Is Telling About the House Transportation Bill By Ben Fried & Ben Goldman, Feb 09, 2012
The transportation-plus-drilling bill that John Boehner and company are trying to ram through the House is an attack on transit riders, pedestrians, cyclists, city dwellers, and every American who can't afford to drive everywhere. Under this bill, all the dedicated federal funding streams for transit, biking, and walking funding streams for transit would disappear, leading to widespread service cuts and more injuries and deaths on American streets.
DC.StreetsBlog.org
House Transportation Bill Too Extreme for Some Republicans By Angie Schmitt, Feb 08, 2012
The House GOP's transportation bill is legislation only Big Oil can love. By eviscerating dedicated transit funds, killing programs that support safe streets, and linking transportation funding to oil drilling in the Arctic, the bill has managed to alienate everyone from environmental advocates to the ultra-conservative Club for Growth.
DC.StreetsBlog.org
Baucus Adds Transit Tax Benefit to Senate Transportation Bill By Ben Goldman, Feb 07, 2012
The Senate Finance Committee is currently marking up what lawmakers have christened the "Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth Act of 2012," the final component of the Senate's two-year transportation bill.
CitiWire.net
Tea Party Politics Imperils Transportation Bill
By Neal Peirce, Feb 11, 2012
A wildly imbalanced transportation bill, supporting highways but imperiling federal support for public transit systems, for biking, walking or livable communities, moves onto the floor of the U.S. House next week. BetterCities.net
How Transportation Planning Kills Streets By Robert Steuteville, Feb 08, 2012
... the thing to be avoided at very high cost, is driving with lots of people all around you. That's called congestion. That makes sense on an Interstate highway, but in a mixed-use downtown - not so much. In fact, there's a technical word for the absence of people in a city or town: Dead.
TheAtlanticCities.com
U.S. Cities Are Losing 4 Million Trees a Year By Eric Jaffe, Feb 09, 2012
Trees can do a lot for a city. From an environmental perspective, they improve air quality and also reduce temperatures, leading to lower energy consumption. From an economic one, they've been tied to increased property value, particularly in highly walkable neighborhoods. From a psychological view, urban trees even have an incredible restorative effect on our attention.
TheAtlanticCities.com
Where the Jobs Will be in 2020 By Jed Kolko, Feb 07, 2012
On February 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment projections through 2020. Despite President Obama's vision in his State of the Union speech of "an economy built on manufacturing," theBLS predicts U.S. manufacturing employment will decline over the course of the decade even as the overall economy grows.
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International (when available)
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TheAtlanticCities.com
One Month in Beijing = Smoking 5 Cigarettes By Debra Bruno, Feb 09, 2012 No one would call Beijing a healthy city. Cars, bikes, motorcycles, rickshaws and carts speed up as pedestrians scamper across the street. Eating and drinking present a continual risk, with regular news reports about people getting sick from tainted milk, contaminated pork, adulterated noodles, rice, watermelons, bean sprouts, wine. READ MORE...TheCityFix.com
Paris to Allow Cyclists to Run Red Lights By Itir Sonuparlek, Feb 08, 2012 Councilors in Paris, France approved a new rule that would allow bicyclists to run red lights allow. A result of a three-year campaign by cyclists' associations, the rule comes after road safety experts deemed it a good measure to cut road crashes.
TheAtlanticCities.com Cautionary U.S. Transportation Tales for India's Growing Cities
By Nte Berg, Feb 10, 2012 To have an American come and tell you how to make your cities more bike- and pedestrian-friendly might seem a little preposterous. But it actually makes sense; what Gorton can provide to a place like India is first-hand American knowledge of what not to do.
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Sunday's Films (when available)
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Things You Need to Know Along The West Corridor
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>Lakewood, Wed Feb 18, 9am Lakewood City Council Ward 1 Members Ramey Johnson and Karen Kellen, will meet with residents and respectful guests at their monthly outreach meeting. The West Light Rail travels across the northern part of their Ward. Coffee-n-Smiles Café, 8440 West Colfax Ave. >Lakewood, Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012 6:30pm to 8pm. Cops, Council and Community Forum
Clements Community Center
1580 Yarrow St., Lakewood Co. 80214 The Lakewood Police Department and the Lakewood City Council members from Ward 1 & 2 will host this quarterly forum program. Discussion this month: How to volunteer and what opportunities are in the Police Department. Open to all
>Lakewood, Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012, 7pm to 9pm Clements Community Center 1580 Yarrow St. Lakewood Co. 80214 League of Women Voters is sponsoring a public discussion of hydro-fracking. There will be representatives from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the Oil and Gas Industry and the Colorado Environmental Coalition. After a panel discussion, there will be a question-and-answer session. >Lakewood, Thursday, March 1, 2012, 6pm to 8pm? RTD will hold a public meeting regarding the Sheridan and Wadsworth Parking Garages At this meeting, Swinterton Builders, the awarded design and build contractors for both garages, will present the design progress of the two parking garages. Construction is scheduled to being in March for the Wadsworth Garage, and will be followed by about six weeks for the Sheridan Garage. RTD West Rail Line office, 10455 West 6th Ave., Lakewood, Co. 80215 (enter on the west entrance) >Lakewood, Saturday, March 10, 2012, 7pm RMCAD Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design 1600 Pierce Street, Lakewood Co. 80214 "Life is nothing if you are not obsessed"
RMCAD Presents an Evening with John Waters
Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design is proud to present An Evening with John Waters. The cult filmmaker will present his one-man vaudeville show based on his spoken word, "This Filthy World" in RMCAD's Mary Harris Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public; however, reservations are required. Reservations will be accepted online only, beginning on Monday, February 13, 2012. This event is a part of RMCAD's Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program.
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Commercial Real Estate Assemblages or Individual Sites Available on the West Corridor
Major construction is done on the RTD West Rail Line and now is the time to begin Phase 2: Creating a new image of the West Corridor by building high-quality, high-density development along RTD's West Rail Line. Let's get the party started.
Please Note: TBF does not
buy or sell real property.
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Things You Need to Know in The Region (when available)
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Transit Alliance Citizens' Academy. Twice a year, the highly acclaimed Transit Alliance Citizens' Academy holds classes for citizens of the Denver Region to learn more about the many facets and huge benefits that transit-oriented living could mean. The application process is highly competitive as there are only 50 slots available and the Academy usually receives twice that amount. The Spring and Fall Citizens' Academies will be held on Wednesday evenings for seven weeks at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Spring 2012 classes will be held on Wednesday evenings beginning April 4th and ending on May 16th. Fall 2012 classes will begin on September 5th and end on October 17th, 2012 Clicking here will send you to the application page. Please read the instructions closely and submit your applications from this page.
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