Claudia Hanson Thiem

A Boulder Future The City of Boulder and Boulder County invites you to help shape the future of the Boulder Valley. We are updating the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), which guides how our community will loo...

Last day to speak up for a better Boulder!

More voices are needed in the Comp Plan update. Even if you went to the open house, you can still fill it out - takes a minute!

Link: a-boulder-future-boulder.hub.arcgis.com
(Scroll to the green box!)

#Boulder #HousingForAll #ClimateAction #SafeStreets

two kids biking on their street one is standing on the handlebars.

Youth Mobility + Youth Independence should be our key metrics of success.

This, but with penguins.

Join Better Boulder for a Parking Symposium! Monday, April 14 | 6–7 PM ✨ Mark your calendars now! Ready for a parking revolution? Across the country, cities are rethinking parking to build more vibrant, sustainable communities. Come join Bette...

Boulder and many other towns are considering eliminating parking minimums as a relic of our suburban past. Join Better Boulder for guest speaker @tonyjordan.bsky.social and follow up conversation at Wild Sage Cohousing.

Good morning to the IRS workers who processed my tax refund in a timely manner during a constitutional crisis, and fuck Chuck Schumer.

Support our Boulder minimum wage workers! 5:30 today at the Bandshell, and bring a friend!

Vienna's Heldenplatz at night. A crowd of thousands stands in the plaza waving flags and signs, surrounded by neoclassical buildings. The blue and yellow stripes of the Ukrainian flag are projected on to the historic Burgtor (monumental gate).

We were living in Vienna when Russia invaded Ukraine, and you, my US friends and neighbors, sent thousands of dollars to fund direct aid for displaced people. That's who we can and should be in the world.

So glad to see you continuing to report on Boulder things!

A table with paper plates containing different types of soil. Children around the table are rubbing the soils between their fingers as an educator demonstrates.

An incubator and light box on a table in a dimly-lit room. Children are gathered around the table as an educator holds a duck egg over the light box to show the embryo inside.

An educator with brown skin speaks with a group of elementary school students in front of a tunnel-shaped display about soil properties and soil chemistry.

I tagged along on a 4th grade conservation and agriculture field trip today, and it's just plain stupid how much we're going to lose by dismantling public science.

Just what I needed this weekend! Thank you for the tickets and the reminder of the beauty people can create together!

JFC

Filing tax returns feels like such an absurd act at this moment.

I‘ve been part of one of these w Boulder‘s co-op houses for years, and it feels like a lifeboat in these times. New members welcome, DM for details!

I’m taking the whole fam to their February concert…give them a follow to get your free tickets, and throw them a little donation for this delightful promo!

There’s been a lot of yelling about unplowed streets in Boulder of late, but this is why sidewalks should be the bigger story.

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”

“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

Yes on 2C: The case for higher council pay - Boulder Weekly Boulder County's independent voice

City councils often pay poverty wages, making public service difficult or impossible for many residents.

Boulder Progressives was the primary organization supporting fair council pay in Boulder, which passed an increase for the first time since 1989.

Are you relocating?

You’ve been a rock for this community and such a relatable and accessible source for news. Wishing you rest and all the best as you move forward!

Another weary parent for 15-minute cities 🙋‍♀️

Feeling like I need a Bustang field trip...

...AND I'm salty that years of organizing are essentially being erased in this update. Boulder's co-op ordinance and occupancy fights have burned through a shameful number of everyday activists. And this confirms just how much of their lives we wasted.

A screenshot of a section of municipal code. The text is all red and lined-through.

It's deeply satisfying to see those 8 pages of regulations red-lined out of existence...

Boulder 'legalized' housing cooperatives in 2017, but the rules were so restrictive that only one new co-op was ever formed under them. Groups of unrelated people already sharing housing had to compile book-length documentation and pay heavy fees for the privilege of recognition.

My Planning Board colleagues nudged Boulder one step closer to eliminating family-based residential occupancy limits tonight, including recommending striking all references to cooperative housing from our municipal code. Co-ops have their own chapter there!

A craggy pie crust from above.

#PiesOfBluesky

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

A bike with trailer and a cargo bike with child seat parked at a temporary rack in a parking lot near a school entrance.

Awesome! We did this at our preschool several years ago and even added a little bike rack. Unfortunately the stunt was not repeated.

A row of three dark grey Nissan Leaf EVs in a small parking lot.

The EV transition at Wild Sage. 6 years ago we leveraged our reserves to fund community solar and shared charging, and the family keeps growing. (h/t my neighbor) #cohousinglife

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/