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Obama signs debt measure, urges focus on jobs

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama marked the end of...

Boulder passed its first racial equity plan. Will it work?

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The City of Boulder’s racial equity plan is no panacea, according to its critics and supporters alike. Passed unanimously by City Council on Feb....

A SANE response to rape

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When former BW Editor Pamela White heard about a teenager who was sexually assaulted and then had to stay in an emergency room waiting area for hours before being seen, she was horrified...

Development and disasters

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The consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied. Indeed, the economic costs — which will include everything from...

Now you know: Nov. 9, 2023

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Preliminary hearing set in King Soopers shooting trial The defendant in the King Soopers shooting trial, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, is set for a preliminary...

Federal Judge Stops Half-Baked BLM Plan to Frack Colorado’s Roan Plateau

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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to allow drilling on...

Chancellor: Discontinue, reorganize CU’s J school

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CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano agrees that the School of Journalism and Mass Communication should be discontinued and then reorganized.In a Jan. 10 letter to CU President Bruce Benson, DiStefano concurs with the findings of a campus committee and recommends ...

More evidence links pesticides to honeybee losses

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It’s been three weeks since beekeepers filed a petition...

Election recap

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COLORADO BALLOT MEASURES As of 12:11 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 Proposition HH — Reduce property taxes and retain state revenue   Yes: 642,755 (40.36%)   No: 949,850 (59.64%) Proposition II...

Not even COVID could stop sports books from flooding Colorado

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This time last year, it wouldn’t have mattered much to Coloradans that Ukrainians were possibly fixing ping-pong matches.  But now that sports betting is legal...

JeffCo School District suspends field trips to Rocky Flats

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Students attending Jefferson County Public Schools aren’t likely to be going on any field trips to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, 4,883 acres...

Worst bobsled ever

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A BBC reporter doing advance work for the upcoming Sochi Olympics sent out this tweet of a curious bathroom fixture he found...