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Plane crashes at Boulder airport
Members of the Boulder Rural Fire Protection District and Boulder Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a plane crash northwest of the intersection of Independence and North 57th St. today at 11:48 a.m. Upon arrival they found a Beachcraft Bonanza aircraft abandoned in...
Community rallies around firefighter who lost home in flood
Boulder firefighter Jacob Dickes was tired — even before the three-day shift he spent rescuing others from the flood that would threaten his family and take his house...
Nederland preschool teacher accused of assault
Editor's note: Charges against Kristen Barnett were dropped after this story was published...
The best letters of the last 20 years
Below are some of the letters to the editor we have received over the past two decades...
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...
The cost of tilting at the 4/20 windmill
For the third consecutive year, the University of Colorado Boulder will spend upwards of $100,000 to close campus on April 20 in its effort to smother anything resembling a 4/20 marijuana smokeout, which the university says has become too disruptive. But only a ...
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 ...
Where’s the heat?
In the 2004 action film The Day After Tomorrow, global warming melts enough polar ice to disrupt natural ocean currents, plunging the northern hemisphere into a new ice age. While the story is clearly in the realm of science fiction, the premise of the movie is based...
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 ...
