Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_13398640
Originally published on September 22, 2009
By Scott Franz
Boulder’s 150-year anniversary continues as representatives of the city’s “kindred cities” meet at the University of Colorado on Wednesday night to discuss mutual challenges they share and how they plan to face them.
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Original article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-lewis/four-officials-from-kindr_b_293599.html
Originally published on September 21, 2009
By Jerry Lewis
BOULDER — Four prominent leaders from Aspen, Colo., Madison, Wis., Portland, Ore. and Sante Fe, N.M. will share their experiences and thoughts in an evening forum, Wednesday, Sept. 23, titled “Separated at Birth: Insights from Kindred Communities.” (Read on …)
Original article can be found at http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_president_packs_harufs_plainsong_and_elmer_kelton_dies_at_83/C39/L39/
Originally published on August 26, 2009
By Jenny Shank
White House Press Secretary Bill Burton announced a list of five books that President Obama is bringing on his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Among them is Kent Haruf‘s Plainsong. Now, during last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Jeff Lee of the Rocky Mountain Land Library asked a bunch of notable Western writers and…me to contribute a “reading list for the President-Elect: A Western States Primer for the Next Administration.” The Tattered Cover featured many of these suggestions in a display. One of the books on my list was Plainsong. (Rick Bass and Laura Pritchett also assigned Plainsong for presidential reading.) (Read on …)
Original article can be found at http://www.eptrail.com/ci_13411909
Originally published September 25, 2009
By Kyle Patterson
Retired Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Bob Barbee will speak at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium in Rocky Mountain National Park on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. The talk is open and free to the public. It is the third Randy Jones Memorial Lecture, jointly sponsored by the University of Colorado`s Center of the American West and the National Park Service.
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Original article can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patty-limerick/an-invitation-to-redempti_b_283996.html
Originally published September 15, 2009
By Patty Limerick
To Joe Wilson, Congressman from South Carolina and Now-Legendary User of Language to Convey Disrepect for the Presidency of the United States
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To Van Jones, Gifted Environmental Advocate and Now-Legendary User of An Immature and Impoverished Figure of Speech to Characterize Political Opponents
Original article can be found at http://www.headwatersnews.org/p.OilShale080609.html
“The Center of the American West probes the West’s oil shale resources and the past and future efforts to pull the oil out of its rocky bed”By Patty Limerick and Jason L. Hanson Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder
for Headwaters News
Aug. 6, 2009
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana’s famous aphorism
Contrary to the assumption made by that very quotable George Santayana, history has never been a particularly good performer when it comes to delivering clear lessons and warnings. On the contrary, when it comes to offering us down-to-earth guidance, history has a vexing way of turning cryptic and coy.
Original article can be found at http://www.bcbr.com/article.asp?id=100821
By Jerry W. Lewis
Originally published 6/26/2009
It’s so easy to say “Those were the days.” The older you get, the more you hear that comment. Fact is, you can’t turn back time.
While “live in the now” may be a better mantra, there’s nothing wrong with looking back. And that’s exactly how it went in May when Boulder’s Sesquicentennial Celebration invited five longtime Boulder citizens to think about the past 50 years in a discussion called “Legends of Progress and Loss.”
Original article can be found at http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/report_oil_shale_offers_promise_pitfalls/C35/L35/
By David Frey
Originally published 6/15/09
Oil shale has a rocky past in the West and an uncertain future, but the sheer amount of resources available, and dwindling supplies of world oil, could make it a crucial resource.
That’s the conclusion of a report by the University of Colorado’s Center for the American West, which found “serious and significant” environmental challenges related to extracting the fuel, balanced against the “world class proportions” of oil shale believed to be in the ground.
Original article can be found at http://vincereardon.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/patty-limerick-breathing-new-life-into-the-history-of-the-american-west/
By Robert Ballard
Originally published 6/12/2009
For Americans coming of age in the middle of the 20th century, one Hollywood actor above all others embodied the virtues and bravado of the American West — John Wayne.
But the movie star, whose real name was Marion Morrison, was mythology. In John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity Garry Wills described him as our “American Adam — untrammeled, unspoiled, free to roam, breathing a larger air than the cramped men behind desks.” [1]
Original article can be found at http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/14/study-harnessing-of-oil-shale-could-aid-energy/
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado’s Center of the American West released an online report Friday that examines the extensive history of oil shale and aims to “bring an impartial perspective to the debate” over its future.
Oil shale is a rock saturated with deposits of oil, so much so that the rocks are often flammable. The world’s largest deposit of the substance is located on the Western Slope.