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Funding cut hurts county breast-cancer programs

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Boulder County has been hit hard by a decrease in funding from Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Poor women, those without health insurance and undocumented immigrant women are among those who will likely feel the greatest impact of this decrease. And it is up to us to ...

Election Guide 2013: Yes on Estes Park School District Issue 3A

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Estes Park School District R-3 Ballot Issue 3ATax increase for education...

Three’s company

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Dear Dr. Jenni...

Vote 2011: Ballot mailings

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Under state law, registered voters who did not participate in the 2010 election have been listed as inactive and will not receive a mail ballot for the Nov. 1 election unless they contact the county clerk and recorder’s office at [email protected] or 303-...

Baloney on veggies

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Back in 1981, the Reagan administration set about creating a budget for fiscal year 1982 that would include $27 billion in cuts to so-called entitlements. The school lunch program, which provides meals to kids from low-income families, was cut by $1 billion...

2012 Gift Guide Introduction

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Happy holidays. Yep, it’s officially that time of year again, so you might as well get used to it. You know what we’re talking about, everyone smiling and throwing kindness your way in one form or another, including gifts. Aside from the TV commercials, it’s not that...

Save journalism education at CU

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It´s about time someone started asking some hard questions about the discontinuance of CU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication...

Howard Zinn, the people’s historian

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On Jan. 27, America lost Howard Zinn. A World War II bombardier, a historian, an author and professor, Zinn challenged the way Americans look at their nation and themselves with the publication of his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States. Though right-...

The impacts of privatizing the turnpike

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"We are privatizing ourselves into one disaster after another,” veteran journalist Ted Koppel said recently on NPR. “We’ve privatized a lot of what our military is doing. We’ve privatized a lot of what our intelligence agencies are doing. We’ve privatized our very ...

Barbara Hamlington — 2023 Louisville City Council Candidate Questionnaire

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Yes/No Questions: 1. Are you a homeowner? Yes 2. If the City police force was fully staffed, would you advocate for adding more officers? No 3. Do...