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Rubber, fashion and a greener gift to give

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As she floated down Boulder Creek on a summer afternoon in 2002, Heather English says, she realized that the smooth black rubber of her inner tube might be just the thing to satisfy her search for a vegan handbag. Her hunt for one in Boulder had yielded no results, ...

Fireworks at Folsom

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In a season that is shaping up to be a difficult one for the Colorado Buffaloes, quarterback Tyler Hansen and wide receiver Paul Richardson are providing a bright spot for fans at Folsom Field...

Kick the Xcel habit

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The trouble with finding new sources of renewable energy is that the people who currently profit off our energy use want to continue profiting forever and ever. Our need as a human family to find new ways of staying warm, cooking our meals and making things go vroom ...

City of Boulder ballot questions

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Ballot Issue 2A...

Just doing our job

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If the Congressional candidate had not sent us the press release, we probably wouldn’t have learned about the police report, and he probably wouldn’t have suspended his campaign. This is a story about looking under the surface of things. Bob Brancato, a ...

Boulder County Democrats in conflict

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A recent Pew survey states that 50 percent of conservative voters and 35 percent of progressives say that it’s important to live where most people share their political views. In Colorado, this political self-segregation is seen in the stark differences between ...

Science and contraception

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If we want to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies in the United States, we would do well to pay attention to the results of two recent studies on contraception. Both show that long-term methods of birth control, in particular the intrauterine device, are far ...

Louisville City Council candidate questions and answers

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Below are Boulder Weekly's five questions for Louisville City Council candidates, and their answers...

Longmont ballot issues results

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The following is a list of the final unofficial 2009 results...