Boulder 2022 Budget+Hwy 119 Bikeway+Does Screen Time Harm Kids?

Hello Boulder! Let's get you started this Friday with what's happening in Boulder today.

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Friday's weather: Hot today. High: 96, low: 69. Air Quality Alert Warning

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Here are the top stories today in Boulder:

1. City of Boulder presents 2022 budget: The City is focused on restoring services that were cut during the pandemic, and will prioritize things that have been identified as having the greatest impact on the citizens of Boulder. This includes recreation and cultural grants, outreach to under-served communities and homeless sweeps. All this and more for a cool $462.5 million.
   (CO Daily)
2. Does screen time hurt children? Findings from this recent study suggest that screen time is not necessarily inherently harmful to our kids, and the negative effects have been overestimated. (CU Today)
3. What to do when there is 'nothing' to do. (Boulder Weekly)
4. Public meeting shows off proposed bikeway: Last week, Boulder County officials presented the conceptual designs for the bikeway on CO Highway 119, which will include connections at the north and south ends of the project. (Boulder County)
5. 90,000 Coloradans lose their pandemic unemployment benefits: A DU professor said "it could take a month or more for the end of extra aid to find out" what the real impacts of the termination of state and federal unemployment benefits will be. (CPR)

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Events in Boulder:

• Fall Fest: Pearl Street Mall – through Sunday. (Friday, 5 -10 p.m.)
• 5th Grade Team Building: Mesa Elementary School. (9 a.m.)
• Boulder Greek Festival: Taste of Orthodoxy - through Sunday. (Friday, 5 -10 p.m.)
• Live on the Hill: Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. (6 - 8 p.m.)

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Boulder Patch Notebook

• Take a trip down memory lane. This documentary about the Boulder-based Magic Music band will take some of you right back to the 1970s and show some others what a trip Boulder really was. Who's in this movie that's a subscriber? (Magic Music Movie)
• Boulder Farmers Market: We won't stop talking about peaches… until the season ends in a couple of weeks! Farmers market on 13th Street alongside veggie farmers and local food galore from 4-7:30 p.m.! (Facebook)
• City of Boulder Colorado Government: Traffic crashes involving left-turns are one of the most common types of crashes in Boulder, especially during back to school season when our streets are busier. Learn how you can help keep left turns from becoming tragedies. (Facebook)
• Colorado Rockies: Today, the first Rockies player to become a Hall of Famer is Larry Walker. (Instagram)

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