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LaHood: Transportation faces huge sequester cuts if GOP doesn’t act

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The FAA faces $600 million in budget cuts of a debt ceiling agreement isn't reached and the budget enters sequestration, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says. And Republican members of Congress are to blame if it happens...

Puritan déjà vu

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If the crackdown on bars that city of Boulder officials were discussing at a city council meeting this week sounds familiar, it’s probably because it’s similar to the approach that City Attorney Tom Carr took when he was Seattle’s city attorney...

The daily discount

A records request submitted by Boulder Weekly has found that in 2012, reporters for the Boulder Daily Camera were given records for free most of the time, were directed to the appropriate custodian of records and were not charged as much as BW or individual citizens ...

VIDEOS: Russia struck by meteorite

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A meteorite entered Earth's atmosphere and landed in Russia, causing a large blast that has injured as many as 1,000 people, according to reports. Below we've compiled multiple videos of the event.          

Transparency trouble

The city of Boulder seems to have joined a growing number of government agencies in Colorado that have started charging more for — and taking more time to produce — public documents when faced with open records requests...

Outcry prompts Longmont school to remove pro-gun link from website

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After a parent’s protest, a Longmont middle school that had a link on its home page to political websites touting gun rights and Tea Party messages has removed the link and apologized...

Advocates: Chicken flap belies true egg industry practices

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When Grant Family Farms in Wellington declared bankruptcy in December and announced that it didn’t have enough feed to keep its chickens alive, it prompted an outpouring of support from surrounding communities. People descended on the farm to adopt hens before they ...

54 countries worldwide implicated in CIA torture program

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Since 2001, the U.S. government has implemented a policy of arresting and detaining terrorism suspects, including the use of CIA-run prisons that used torture as a method of extracting information...

New Rove group takes aim at extreme Republican candidates

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In Indiana, Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock lost to a Democrat, while Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the state by 10 points...

Deadly rainstorms linked to climate change

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Droughts have gripped the U.S. recently, but across the globe another sign of climate change is rearing its head: Deadly rains have struck across Asia, Australia and North America in recent years...

Inside the people pound

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Former Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White wrote about the treatment of undocumented immigrants in May 2002, describing the conditions in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Aurora...

Who is tailing you?

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On July 6, 2003, two Boulder residents found sophisticated global positioning system (GPS) tracking devices attached to the bottom of their cars, and then-BW Editor Pamela White says the story broke national news about federal agents being suspected of monitoring ...