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Victory, for now
Just as promised, veterans started arriving at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest camps in the final days leading up to the government’s Monday,...
Bag fee reduces paper and plastic bag use by 68 percent
Whether you wanted paper or plastic, it started costing $.10 each at the grocery line six months ago when a new city initiative began requiring grocery stores to charge a fee per disposable bag. The City of Boulder is now reporting that has reduced grocery store bag ...
Floods likely to worsen in next century
New research published in the journal, Nature, investigates the risks of flooding in the coming decades and the outlook is grim...
Sony Computer Entertainment buys Gaikai for $380 million
Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that it has acquired the prominent interactive cloud-based gaming company, Gaikai, for approximately $380 million...
Flagstaff star cards for sale
The ninth annual Flagstaff Star Holiday Card, a Boulder fundraiser to help pay for the maintenance and upkeep of the brightly lit star displayed on Flagstaff Mountain over the holidays, is now on sale. The star, which is now 100 percent wind-powered, is lit in the ...
Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono release anti-fracking song ‘Don’t Frack My Mom’
Artist Yoko Ono and her son Sean Lennon have established themselves as leaders in the movement against fracking, which we hardly need to bother identifying as a natural gas extraction method...
Sunlight Foundation unveils journalism effort-checker Churnalism
The process is this: Corporations, trade associations, governments, individuals and tons of other groups write up press releases about themselves. Then they send those to journalists. Then journalists put them into their publications. Then you, the reader, catches ...
Longmont council member: Tax people for fracking lawsuit costs
While Longmont activists successfully landed a fracking ban question on the November ballot this week, one city council member hopes to put another initiative before the voters asking them how they would like to be taxed when the city loses a lawsuit over the ban...
Will upcoming move for Mental Health Partners make access to walk-in...
In the coming months, Mental Health Partners’ Walk-In Crisis Clinic will move from its current location at 1000 Alpine Ave., to 3180 Airport Road, just off Valmont Road...
