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NSA secretly cracked Internet encryptions
ProPublica, The New York Times and The Guardian have published a story on secret documents that demonstrate the NSA has hacked into computers and broken common encryptions to read multiples types of information online...
Fracking disposal well causes over 100 earthquakes in Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio had its first earthquake in 2011. It had its 100th earthquake in 2011, too...
Troubled Waters
On April 23, Charles Edward Waters, a homeless man best known around Boulder for playing his guitar on the Pearl Street Mall for tips, was, for all intents and purposes, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison...
Fracking, GMOs prompt activist’s commissioner run
Citing unsatisfactory responses to issues like fracking and GMOs, a local activist is challenging fellow Democrat and incumbent Boulder County Commissioner Cindy Domenico, who is seeking re-election next year...
At G-20, Syria presents stumbling block
In Moscow, President Barack Obama and other world leaders are meeting for the regular Group of 20 conference. But potential military conflict in Syria is hanging over the ostensibly economics-centered meeting...
Taking aim: Sugarloaf residents complain about bow-hunting
The deer was a lactating doe, which means it had fawns. It had been shot in the hindquarters and had bled to death near a home in the Sugarloaf area, in the foothills west of Boulder...
Peaks and valleys for formerly homeless Boulderite
Mike Homner was a successful businessman. Then a series of events thrust him into the world of being homeless. And he has scraped his way back. Almost...
Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County
Back then, the signs in the storefronts read, “No dogs or Mexicans allowed...
Students of Ignite Your Potential: Brighter than bright
Jasmine Johnson sees what’s at stake for her future every time she goes to downtown Denver to see her sister’s theater productions. She says it clicked when she was in seventh grade, and they were passing by homeless people out on the street in the cold...
Justice Department will drop mandatory non-violent drug sentences
Today, Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a change in policy for the Justice Department that will see federal prosecutors no longer pursuing mandatory minimum jail time for non-violent offenders with no apparent gang ties...
Disinformation: Contamination under Boulder’s Dushanbe Teahouse
In 1987, the people of Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, gave Boulder a traditional Tajik teahouse as a gift. In 1990, then-Mayor Leslie Durgin appointed a citizen task force to determine an appropriate site for the teahouse. The task force examined ...
