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The first thing former Weekly Editor Pamela White mentions when asked about her November 2003 exposé on the Cemex plant near Lyons is the Thermos...

It was this story that changed my vision of the newspaper from a business opportunity to a vehicle for social change...

This groundbreaking BW story by Joel Warner documented some of the serious — some would say fatal — side effects of the anti-malaria drug Lariam, which was regularly given to those serving in the U.S. military...

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for. In 1988, the city and county of Boulder jointly purchased 1,200.5 acres of land from Beech Aircraft under the impression it would be a great addition to Open Space. The land, about two miles north of Boulder on Highway ...

When former BW Editor Pamela White heard about a teenager who was sexually assaulted and then had to stay in an emergency room waiting area for hours before being seen, she was horrified...

As the independent news organization for all of Boulder County, BW has, at one time or another, uncovered corruption and scandal at nearly every level of government in every town in the county. In the case of this story, it was Nederland’s Board of Trustees that was ...

Of all the groundbreaking, boundary-pushing stories that former Editor Pamela White wrote during her 10 years at the Weekly, she seems to speak with special fondness for the series she did on the history of AIDS in Boulder County...

“The moral of the story is: Don’t turn away from ideas, people or concepts that are different, unique, nontraditional or alternative. Embrace them, because many times the answers to life’s deeper questions turn out to reside there...

Former BW Editor Pamela White didn’t just uncover mistreatment of incarcerated pregnant women, she wrote regularly about prisons and jails in general, even spending the night in the Boulder County Jail one time to get a first-person account of what the conditions ...

Anyone who has been reading Boulder Weekly over the past 20 years knows that reporting on prison issues, including the abuse of prisoners, is a very high priority for the paper. Prisoners, whether in our city and county jails or our state prison system, are an ...

For more than a decade, Boulder Weekly has been a national leader when it comes to reporting on the critical issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), GMO seeds and foods, the movement to label GE food products, and the dangerous practices of monopolistic ...

Boulder’s rec centers have long been a favorite year-round hangout for the city’s families and for children. As Boulder Weekly discovered during this impressive investigation by Richard Fleming, the East Boulder Recreation Center was, in 1995, likewise a popular ...