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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...
Wave Wind catches the wind energy wave
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. — As economic development officials await word on whether a European wind power company will invest in Milwaukee, an Asian firm is planting some roots in Wisconsin...
FaceMash.com, the forerunner to Facebook, up for auction
CHICAGO — Rahul Jain has something Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn't. And for $21,000-plus, it can be yours...
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 ...
White rhino poaching hits record levels in 2013
The BBC is reporting that 2013 was the worst year on record for the poaching of white rhinos in South Africa, a species that dwindled to a population of only 100 at the end of the 19th century...
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 ...
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...
Wis. teen pleads guilty in Facebook sex case
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Anthony Stancl, the former New Berlin Eisenhower High School student accused of using the social networking site Facebook to coerce male schoolmates into sexual encounters, was found guilty Tuesday of two counts of sexual assault...
A town divided
Getting a definitive answer as to whether hydraulic fracturing of gas wells, better known these days as fracking, is contaminating the air and the water in Erie is a pretty tall order. For instance, one study says the air is more polluted than Los Angeles’ brown ...
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...
GMOs get a go-ahead
If you slice open a strawberry, it still looks like a strawberry, whether it’s genetically modified or not. If you slice open the recent decision by the Cropland Policy Advisory Group on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and organic crops in Boulder County, it ...
