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Fort Collins rejects plan to drain Poudre River for northern Colorado...
The City Council of Fort Collins passed a resolution last week that formally declares their opposition to a water management plan that would divert massive amounts of water from the Poudre River and create one or two new reservoirs in northern Colorado...
2009 Boulder County People of the Year: Team ClimateSmart
It started with a man named Cisco DeVries. As chief of staff to the mayor of Berkeley, Calif., DeVries was looking for a way to enable more people to update their homes with renewable energy and save money on their utility bills. He came up with an idea: finance ...
The Foilies 2017
A thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (March 12-18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of...
Experts: Prosecuting WikiLeaks will be difficult
If they posted classified documents the federal government decides to file criminal charges against Julian Assange or other WikiLeaks employees because online, media law experts say it will be uncharted waters...
Dailies to hike subscription rates in new online paywall plan
As the Boulder Daily Camera, Longmont Times-Call and their sister papers in the region implement a paywall to begin charging for their online content beginning Dec. 2, they will also increase print subscription rates...
Recent legal tangles leave medical marijuana dispensaries in haze
Editor's Note: Last week, we reported that a state legislator suggested CSU grow pot for the entire state. Read that story by clicking here...
The beginning of the end for zero tolerance in schools
Driven by his frustration with New Jersey’s restrictive medical marijuana program, Ricardo Rivera crowd-funded a research trip to Colorado. He wanted more information about extracting cannabis oil for his daughter and a new law that means sick kids can be treated ...
With the passage of HB 1057, have Democrats once again killed...
On Aug. 4, 2014, more than a quarter of a million signatures belonging to Colorado voters were on their way to the Secretary of State’s office for the purpose of putting two citizens-initiatives that would potentially amend the state’s constitution on the November ...
Sen. Robert Byrd, West Virginia lawmaker, dies at 92
WASHINGTON — Robert Carlyle Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was often called this generation's conscience of the Senate for his devotion to the system of constitutional checks and balances and the prerogatives of power, died Monday. He was 92...
From ‘Woman in chains’ to ‘Pregnant in prison’
Former Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White first wrote about the treatment of pregnant women in prison on Aug. 2, 2001. The story was called “Woman in chains,” and it was about an inmate who went into labor prematurely but was denied medical attention — and even ...
A home worth the fight
As lunchtime approaches, Collin, age 4, removes his mom’s plate from the microwave to set aside until she’s ready for it, pulls himself up on the counter by the sink to turn on the faucet, wets a paper towel and wraps a burrito in it. His mother, Ashley Weber, ...
