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Ghosts of Valmont Butte
When the city of Boulder issued a press release in December 2011 announcing that it, along with Honeywell International and Tusco Inc., had reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice on behalf of the EPA regarding the cost of investigating and ...
Home for the holidays
“They kicked me out, but I was happy to leave,” she says about her mom and step-dad. Her parents gave Ashley an ultimatum — obey their rules or get out. Their rules included taking care of her 10-year-old brother and “literally doing every chore in the house,” she ...
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...
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 ...
Freeze tag
As Boulder police continue to nab members of a teenage “graffiti crew” responsible for much of the recent spike in tagging around town, city officials plan to crack down on property owners as well, in an effort to get graffiti cleaned up in a more timely manner...
Helping hands
A waterfall crashes into a river. There is a crowd on the riverbank. In the river there is a drowning child, fallen from the top of the waterfall. The people in the crowd link arms and create a chain. The chain pulls the child to safety. Then another child falls 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...
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...
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...
United and Continental join forces in $3-billion merger
CHICAGO — United Airlines and Continental Airlines announced early Monday morning they were combining operations in a $3-billion merger, forming the world's largest airline...
Potential juror jailed over hint he’d ‘get it over with’
MINNEAPOLIS — Todd Gilly insists he's no troublemaker...
