🌱 Kaiser To Upgrade Medical Offices + CU Toilet Flushing Research

Hello, Boulder! I'm here in your inbox per usual to tell you everything you need to know about what's going on around town. In this issue, you'll get updates on:

• Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy stores to be sold, as parent company declares bankruptcy.
• Colorado River Water Users conference hopes to rethink how the west uses its shrinking water supply.
• CU researchers discover what really happens when a toilet is flushed.

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Wednesday's weather: Mostly cloudy and cold. High: 35 Low: 18.

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Here are the top stories today in Boulder:

1. Kaiser Permanent announces plan to spend $100 million on new and upgraded facilities. The medical provider is expecting to do extensive renovations in some of its largest medical offices in 2023, including the Baseline Medical Offices in Boulder, which will include new medical and IT equipment, updated furniture, paint, and flooring. (Mile High CRE)
2. Parent company of Boulder's Pharmaca has filed for bankruptcy. Digital pharmacy company Medly Health, and the parent company of Pharmaca, has filed bankruptcy and has announced that it plans to sell the 22 Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy stores. (Business Journal)
3. Colorado River water users confab hopes to rethink how to use water. Water managers from the west are meeting in Las Vegas this week, at the same time as a water crisis is hitting the users of water from the Colorado River hard. The conference's theme is "A New Century for the Colorado River Compact," with a goal to address how to keep water flowing to 40 million people and millions of acres of farmland. (CO Sun)
4. Ever wonder what really happens when you flush a toilet? CU research team, co-led by John Crimaldi, an engineer, used lasers and cameras to discover what happens when a commercial toilet is flushed. The results are surprising and the research may someday help prevent the spread of toilet-dwelling bacteria and viruses. (Smithsonian)

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Today in Boulder:

• Vajrayogini Practice: Boulder Shambala Center. (9 a.m.)
• Coffee with a Cop - Finals Edition: CU Events Center. (9-11 a.m.)
• Onward and Upward-Shark's Ink: CU Boulder Art Museum. (10 a.m.-4 p.m.)
• Boulder Community Knitting: Boulder Public Library. (2:30 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Boulder County Board of County Commissioners' two-week agenda is available online at the link below. Meetings and hearings can be attended in person, online through Zoom, and by calling in. (BOCO)
• A hoard not to miss. Boulder luminary, and local junk collector, Joel Haertling's exhibition "To Have and To Hoard" opened last week at the Boulder Public Library. The exhibition is a visual cacophony of stuff. (Boulder)
• Boulder bike shop giving away helmets with purchase of e-bike. Local bike shop Eazy E Bikez is giving away a bicycle helmet with a purchase of any e-bike. (FOX31)

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That's it for today! See you all Thursday morning with another edition of the Boulder Daily. — Brad K. Evans

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