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We have to agree with those who are calling for a final vote of Boulder residents on the municipalization question, before the city moves ahead with it...

Well, it’s official. The city of Boulder is getting rid of the last few pay phones that still dot the Pearl Street Mall. Most of the city’s motive is pretty simple: The phones just aren’t used that much anymore because “everyone” has a cell phone. And then, of course...

When it was announced that Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones was going to debate Gov. John Hickenlooper on the issue of fracking, we weren’t sure what to expect. To be honest, we were afraid that the debate might turn out to be more of a conversation among ...

So, we have a story in this week’s issue about the tens of millions of dollars the state uses to compensate communities for their losses when oil and gas companies and other land pillagers move in, do their business, then pull out, so to speak...

It was almost amusing to see Boulder City Council members suddenly get up tight about appointing former councilmember Crystal Gray to the city Planning Board...

We love how University of Colorado officials are still using the same old excuse they used last year for attempting to shut down the campus during the 4/20 marijuana protest...

Well, the city of Boulder’s heavy-handed puritan leaders are at it again...

On Feb. 19, some 70 elected officials from various Colorado counties and municipalities signed a letter obviously penned by some PR hack from the oil and gas industry (it reeks like a typical Colorado Oil and Gas Association ploy, but who knows). The letter is a big ...

THE CONSERVATIVE IS COMING...

On the heels of The Denver Post naming Erie Rising, an anti-fracking group formed by local concerned mothers, among its “Top Thinkers of 2012,” the mayor of Erie apparently thought it would be a good idea to throw these forward-minded community leaders under the bus...

This past election season, the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s office bent over backwards to defend itself against complaints from local election integrity activists, repeatedly insisting that they were doing everything correctly...

We remember the first time Boulder Weekly wrote about the fact that virtually none of our police officers and firefighters could afford to own a home in Boulder, the place where they risked their lives every day. It wasn’t because they didn’t want to live here. It ...