Interview with Gwen Dooley Gwen Dooley was on the Boulder City Council and was a people’s candidate in the finest sense. She represented the people in their fight to keep Boulder from being altered in a negative way by developers and a new transient, but well-to-do class of people who were buying up older homes […]
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Oral History of Boulder in the 1960’s interview with former County Commissioner and City Councilman Paul Danish in 1986
Paul Danish This interview is with Paul Danish, former City Councilman and author of the Danish growth-limitation ordinance, AKA the Danish Plan. Contrary to the revisionist history of the local newspapers, it was not the City Council that implemented growth-limitation. Paul Danish was forced to put the issue on the ballot to get the growth-limitation […]
City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center
April 18, 2026 Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean it. In Festus, Missouri — a sleepy town of roughly 12,700 residents — the backlash was so great that residents ousted half their city council after they approved a $6 billion data center development […]
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