The latest is that Xcel has filed with the PUC to use an old (and, per the article, “little-used”) statute that lets a utility go to the PUC to override local land use decisions. Xcel Energy is asking 3 of Polis’ political cronies (two with ties or homes in Boulder and one from up near Vail in Edwards) to step in and approve their power line routes over the objections of the people who will have to live near the actual power lines and see them everyday.