Content Archives
This is an archive for categories that are no longer being maintained but is used to historically categorize older articles.
Shooting from the lip
The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Jan. 10...
FCC breaks Obama’s promise on net neutrality
On Dec. 21, the FCC passed new rules — written by corporations — that will end net neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person...
Election Guide 2013: Yes on Longmont Ballot Question 2B
Longmont Ballot Question 2BBonds for city’s fiber-optic network...
Holiday recipes from Boulder%uFFFDs Basta
When you have a background that includes cooking at Michelin-starred restaurants in Southern California and extensive professional experience in Italy, you might make for an intimidating holiday dinner guest. Such is the experience of Chef Kelly Whitaker. His ...
The sex behind population control
As taboo as it is to talk about sexual pleasure in the bedroom, talking about population control can be even more contentious. We need to have sex to make babies — that’s obvious. But in a world that is running out of room and resources, we would do well to ...
Pear Fritters
Man, the search for Halloween costumes can be simply exhausting. A Playboy bunny, a naughty nurse or a witch. What to do, what to do...
Boulder Valley School District Board of Education Endorsements
We sent questionnaires to each of the candidates running for the BVSD Board of Education in 2023. Visit this page to see each candidate’s answers.
Candidates
Four of...
Wasting away
It’s no secret that with the holidays comes mass consumption of everything from gifts to food to greeting cards, which also means 1 million extra tons of waste every week between Thanksgiving and Christmas...
Towns fight back against fracking
A growing boom in natural gas drilling near homes and schools prompted the city of Longmont to vote last July to bar new oil and gas permits in residential neighborhoods...
Pear Crisp with Ginger Whipped Cream
Ah, the crisp fall air is taking me away to apple-cinnamon candle land, where children frolic in the leaves and pumpkin lattes rule the menus...
Deadly drunk driving
Heather Surovik, 27, started out the morning of July 5 heavily pregnant and surely wondering when she would go into labor. That afternoon, she got into her car with her mother and 5-year-old son — and her life was changed irrevocably...
