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Domain Registrar Confirms New Pirate Bay Investigation
Suspicions that the police have started a new criminal investigation...
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...
Hostess will pay bonuses to execs despite dropping pension payments
BREAKING NEWS OF THE DAY, November 30, 1842: President John Tyler reacted with great joy at news that the top industry leaders of the HOSTESS CORPORATION will be awarded more than $1 million in Bonuses, Payments and sundry other Monetary Blessings for the great works...
Oil Boom, part II
Last week’s Boulder Weekly cover story “Oil Boom” covered the proliferation of trains carrying volatile crude oil in outdated oil tanks through the hearts of Longmont, Boulder and Louisville. With industry estimates of an oil boom in the nearby Niobrara shale ...
Abortion Rights Freedom Ride draws local support
One in three women has an abortion, according to Dr. Susan Wicklund, an abortion provider in Montana and author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor. But most people say they don’t know someone who has had an abortion. That mothers, daughters, ...
Smashing the myths
People use reason to convince themselves, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, that their side is right and the other side is wrong. That’s the conclusion of a new study by the Yale Cultural Cognition Project, an academic group that studies how cultural ...
FBI criticized for post-9-11 probes of anti-war groups, PETA
WASHINGTON — FBI agents improperly opened investigations into Greenpeace and several other domestic advocacy groups following the Sept. 11...
City Ballot Issue 2B passes easily
Boulder City Ballot Issue 2B, also called the “replacement tax” or the “utility occupation tax,” passed with a wide margin: 68.55 percent for and only 31.45 percent against. That means when Thanksgiving comes around, Boulderites can give thanks for the fact that ...
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
It was 5:30 a.m. Thursday in New York when Mario Vargas Llosa took a long-distance call...
Lawsuit in the land of legal marijuana
In September of 2012, when Gary Gabrel was introduced to the owner and founder of Dixie Elixirs, it looked to be a good match for a venture into the vastly uncharted world of marijuana sales...
Two more vying for Levy’s House seat
Editor's note: After press time, BW received notification that one of the candidates described in the story below, Zane Laubhan, decided to bow out of the race. In an Oct. 9 email message, House District 13 Central Committee Secretary Celeste Landry said that Laubhan...
City: Valmont grave likely a hoax
The Boulder city attorney alleged this week that the possible grave site marker near Valmont Cemetery that was removed by city workers on April 23 may well have been a fraud...
