In Case You Missed It
In case you missed it | Priorities, people
It’d be easy to taunt Boulder’s endless wellspring of emotion regarding the gentle elk mercilessly killed by police officers just weeks ago. In the most glaring example of only-in-Boulder that we’ve seen in years, the martyred elk has inspired a song, a candlelight ...
In case you missed it | Sex, lies and videotape, aka...
I guess it’s impossible for Hillary Clinton to fill every position in the Obama administration, but it sure would be nice considering the alternative choices. We all know what happened to Obama’s last CIA head, David Petraeus — let’s just say he got caught with his ...
In case you missed it | Colorado´s new well setbacks are...
Anybody else tired of hearing the state of Colorado continuously lie to us about how it has the toughest restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the nation...
In case you missed it | What the pluck?
You probably didn’t miss this if you were near the intersection of Broadway and Pearl in Boulder on Wednesday, Dec. 19...
In case you missed it | Time for a bake sale
What a shocker. The Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) is suing the city of Longmont over its voter-approved fracking ban...
In Case You Missed It | Benson’s gone to pot
So Amendment 64 passes, and all of a sudden Republican CU President Bruce Benson gets up on his high horse when it comes to the morality of marijuana...
In case you missed it | Fracking unrest
Our favorite moment from the tumultuous Dec. 4 Boulder County commissioners hearing on oil and gas regulations wasn’t the heckling of an Encana official as she left the meeting...
In case you missed it | The Wizard of Norquist
What used to be a pledge of allegiance to the United States has in more recent times become a pledge of allegiance by Republican politicians to just one dorky-looking guy named Grover Norquist and his infamous “no new taxes” platform...
In case you missed it | Unsavory ethnic studies
We’re going to guess that very few of you were shocked when you heard that the Republican-dominated Board of Regents criticized a proposal for a new Ph.D. degree in ethnic studies at CU-Boulder. Or that two right-wingers voted against a proposal for an ethnic studies...
In Case You Missed It | Protests of the week
There are a couple of hot protesting opportunities this week that any card-carrying lefty activist won’t want to miss...
In case you missed it | Mickey Skywalker
We could sense all of the true diehard Star Wars fans cringing in their brown hooded robes with the news this week that Disney was buying Lucasfilm and planning to release additional episodes of the series...
