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A tale of two cities
Nothing says “holidays” quite like revisiting the Goldschmidt Hypothesis at this time of year. At least that’s how you might see things unfolding this shopping season if you were a rural sociologist or economic anthropologist...
Obama administration moves to aid Syrian opposition
The Obama administration is moving to provide direct...
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...
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...
More accounts of inmate abuse surface at jail
A Boulder Weekly story about the Boulder County Jail and the use of a restraint chair on unruly inmates has prompted other current and former inmates to come forward with allegations of abuse suffered at the hands of jail staff...
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 ...
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 ...
Shackling bill moves forward
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday passed the shackling bill, Senate Bill 193, on a unanimous vote. The bill, carried by Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, would prohibit the shackling of inmates who are in labor, giving birth or recovering from giving birth, ...
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...
Boulder Canyon Dome fire
Boulder County investigators have announced that while they are confident the Dome Fire that spread west of Boulder last week was human-caused, they probably will never know what the exact cause was...
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...
