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Too much to risk

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The first time Anna Lee Vargas visited the Sand Dunes, she cried. She was in kindergarten, on an end-of-the-year field trip, and had somehow...

Last hurrah 

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Syed Atif Ali (known as Atif) was halfway through a hike in Iceland when he started pushing the pace. He wanted to run, like he...

5 stories to watch in 2024

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1.) Boulder County’s transportation future With the recent big announcement about the long-pined for Front Range passenger rail, transportation is getting some traction and attention....

Colorado Senate set to kill conversion therapy ban… again

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A few weeks ago, Silas Musick went to the Colorado State Capitol and testified in support of a bill to ban conversion therapy, a discredited...

Deadly Force, in Black and White

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts — 21 times greater, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings...

Spray to play

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For at least the past 17 years, the residents of Boulder County have been making their opposition to using chemicals such as glyphosate on...

Colorado becomes fifth state to allow ‘X’ gender marker on driver’s...

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For Carter Stepanovsky of Lyons, the process of changing their name to reflect their gender identity has been both emotionally and financially exhausting. Plus,...

End run: New education law empowers school reformers

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In the early 2010s, conservative billionaires from the Koch brothers to Alex Cranberg poured money into local school board elections nationwide in order to...

‘Sportsmen’ beware

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I tell Chris Castilian about having recently gone elk hunting in the mountains of Northern Colorado, saying that although I hunted hard and walked many...

When the grass isn’t greener

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As state lawmakers handle homeowners associations’ addiction to green lawns, local governments and organizations are targeting turf outside the confines of HOAs through incentives...

COGCC budget in peril

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You’ve seen the commercials: Good-looking people in vests and their good-looking dogs walking by crystal clear mountain streams, a burly voiceover saying something like,...

Time to revisit Boulder’s controversial camping ban

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Two separate reports released within the last month confirm assertions long-argued by homeless advocates — Boulder’s camping ban disproportionately affects and is enforced against...