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Audit critical of BVSD’s special ed program
A state audit has found the Boulder Valley School District’s special education program deficient in a dozen different areas...
Niwot fracking protest only the beginning
The local coalition that recently came together to protest the new oil/gas drilling site east of Niwot is not done yet...
New homeless kitchen will serve more than meals
The Bridge House, which provides food and other resources to homeless in the Boulder area, is poised to cut the ribbon on a new commercial kitchen that will do much more than simply expand the amount of food the organization can serve...
Xcel gets pranked
Colorado activists pulled an elaborate prank on Xcel Energy today, April Fool’s Day, announcing that the utility company pledged to switch to 100 percent renewable electricity statewide by phasing out not just coal plants, but natural gas as well...
Good news for immigration activist
Jeanette Vizguerra has been fighting deportation for seven years. But last week she won a significant victory. On Feb. 17 she was granted a...
The state of hate
BW editor Joel Dyer is the author of Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is only the beginning. His work on the subject of domestic terrorism has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Times Sunday Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Utne Reader and Mother Jones. He ...
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...
Boulder homeless couple has baby girl
The Boulder homeless couple featured in a Nov. 21 Boulder Weekly feature story — Lexi and Chris Weaver — now has a little girl...
Biff 2012 | Grand on a glacial scale
"Most of the time, art and science stare at each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension,” photographer James Balog says in his 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk. “Art, of course, looks at the world through the psyche, the emotions —even the ...
City denies requests for Valmont meetings, tours
City of Boulder officials have denied a request from several local organizations, including Boulder Weekly, to meet with the city archeologist and tribal monitor who are working on the Valmont Butte cleanup...
