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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 ...

When the city of Boulder issued a press release in December 2011 announcing that it, along with Honeywell International and Tusco Inc., had reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice on behalf of the EPA regarding the cost of investigating and ...

The job of journalists is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In November 1995, it would have been hard to find anyone in Boulder more afflicted and uncomfortable than Anita Belletti. When Boulder Weekly interviewed Belletti, she was undergoing ...

For years, Seth Brigham was one of Boulder’s gadflies, coloring Boulder’s city council meetings with provocative, uncomfortable pronouncements and, dare we say, unconventional ways of presenting information to elected officials, which included stripping down to ...

Like so many important stories that have appeared in Boulder Weekly, this one started out over beers at a local dive...

The week leading up to Oct. 18, 2012, was a tense one for Boulder Weekly journalists. The grisly murder of Jessica Ridgeway was dominating media coverage and conversation around the state, and a choice had to be made: Continue to cover news that the staff had planned...