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Greenpeace: How Clean (And Green) Is Your Cloud?
Greenpeace released its latest report today asking, "How clean is your cloud...
Why Arizona’s Controversial Immigration Law Is Bad For Business
The architect of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law...
May Day to honor workers, migrants
May Day to honor workers, migrantsInternational Workers Day, celebrated on May Day, was instituted in 1886 when 180,000 U.S. workers engaged in a strike to fight for the eight-hour workday. Since 1988, workers and organizers along the front range of Colorado have ...
Why fight against fracking could determine Earth’s future
As obscure as the war against fracking is in Boulder County — it gets front-page headlines less often than marijuana and a bad football team — the oil-drilling practice is even less well-known across the country...
Microsoft Surface tablet to ship by the end of October
The Surface, Microsoft's tablet to answer the iPad that has been hinted at for months, finally has a price and a release date...
Couple accused of diverting $2 million worth of gas, electricity to...
CHICAGO — A Chicago-area couple has been charged with money laundering and theft for illegally diverting about $2 million worth of natural gas and electricity over the past several years to their pet food company, prosecutors say...
Regional event to draw nonprofit bike groups
Nonprofit bicycle advocacy organization Community Cycles will host the Mountain States Bike! Bike! Conference March 19 through March 21 in Boulder...
Harvest of rage
First Boulder Weekly scooped the nation by sounding the alarm about the militia movement the day after the Oklahoma City bombing. Then the paper delved into the world of the foreclosed farms and struggling communities of the heartland that had led to the smoking ...
Cheap Natural Gas Making Inroads As US Fuel
Natural gas, whose price is at record lows thanks to a shale drilling...
Longmont’s Habitat for Humanity store robbed
Employees of Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore Home Improvement Outlet in Longmont discovered on Jan. 26 that the store’s safe, containing almost $3,000 in cash and checks, had been stolen. The money in the safe included cash for the store register as well as deposits ...
