Analysis
Increased climate tax and police reform
To combat increasing wildfires, Boulder will ask for increased climate tax
Boulder is proposing a new $6.5 million annual tax on natural gas and electricity...
Brittle cities
As fire and inequality hammer the Front Range, affordable housing might be region’s best bet at resilience
Council contends with even year elections and COVID infections
Local elections may move to even years, but how and when is TBD.
Assuming voters give it a green light, Boulderites could soon be electing...
Finally, some decisions on the library district
After four years of campaigning and haggling over little details, Boulder City Council on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to form a library district that...
Crime is (maybe, kinda, sorta) up, the new fire station is...
Crime is (maybe, kinda, sorta) up, the new fire station is a go, and affordable housing is on the way
The new harvest of rage: an excerpt
On Jan. 6, an angry mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, breaking windows, defacing art, rummaging through Congressional offices and, in some...
Amid slow economic recovery, Boulder set to pilot UBI; in the...
Guaranteed income by another name?
The city is moving forward with plans to give cash to low-income Boulderites, though how much, to whom and for...
“Get out of Boulder”
How potentially unconstitutional anti-homeless policies and a weak social safety net perpetuate cycles of homelessness
The great divorce: The People of Colorado v. the State
When I was a boy, my dad took me and my twin sister and brothers to see the demolition of the Omaha-Grant Smoke Stack...
Original intent and the Second Amendment
In the wake of every gun-toting madman, and an ever-expanding body count, comes a host of voices raised in heated debate about the Second...
The new model for saving the Colorado River might just kill...
We’ve been gathering information on various threats to the Colorado River for more than five years now at Boulder Weekly. We’ve made trips to...
