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Not in this Statehouse
The state bill that would have rolled back Colorado’s renewable energy standards to half of their proposed levels was co-sponsored by legislators who have been linked to the fossil fuel-funded American Legislative Exchange Council...
Updated: Legislator wants CSU to grow pot for the state
Editor's Note: This story last updated at 3:15 p.m...
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...
Who’s getting whose goat?
Just because we’re on the other side of election season doesn’t mean the advertisements stop. You’ve probably seen it by now: a “Front Range” “organic” farmer telling us that people should support fracking because it helps farmers like her pay for healthcare and ...
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...
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...
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...
Taste of Pearl comes to Boulder Sunday
Bon Appétit magazine's “foodiest town in America” will show off some of its best wares on Sunday, May 1, at the Taste of Pearl wine and food festival in downtown Boulder.Attendees will stroll along Pearl Street, in and out of well-known businesses, while tantalizing ...
Secret Service guards its museum closely
WASHINGTON — The six-story tan brick building on H Street houses one of the most secret museums in Washington...
Relocalization may be the key to not exterminating ourselves
In the novel Time Enough to Love, author Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long opines, “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, ...
Undead laws: ‘Ag-gag bills’ are back to keep factory farm abuse...
The progressive left likes to use the term “zombie lies” to refer to...
