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Eliot Spitzer: What are the Koch brothers talking about?
Outrage was the general reaction last week when David Siegel, a prominent Republican, sent a letter to his employees telling them some of them would lose their jobs if President Barack Obama was re-elected. The letter was widely decried as sleazy, underhanded, false ...
September ties record for warmth worldwide
After a summer that broke record after record for heat, some good news: September was only tied for the hottest September since 1880...
Microsoft Surface tablet to ship by the end of October
The Surface, Microsoft's tablet to answer the iPad that has been hinted at for months, finally has a price and a release date...
Project censored
People who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may be surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama in this crucial election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by...
Records indicate Hall made call on refusing election activists
Phone records obtained by Boulder Weekly seem to confirm that despite her earlier comments to the contrary, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall was the one who denied election activists’ Sept. 28 request to observe the ballot printing process...
State ethics director: Boulder should change attorney model
The director of a state ethics organization says that the city of Boulder needs to change its model of having a city attorney hired by city council serve as its members’ advisor — and enforcer — when it comes to appearances of impropriety and ethical breaches...
EPA vindicated on Pavillion fracking pollution tests
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited draft report on its investigation into the groundwater contamination near Pavillion, Wyo., in 2011, the oil and gas industry knew it was in trouble. The EPA’s Pavillion report was the first ...
Romney announces he’s pro-life — when he’s not pro-choice
Any good politician knows: The best way to capture those flighty, irrational, emotional female voters is to talk only about issues that directly affect women...
Romney’s recent foreign policy speech was his falsest yet
Republican Mitt Romney has told a few whoppers in his day — his day being the last few months of campaigning...
It’s the Year of the Bat
It's easy to get excited about saving the pandas or the polar bears or the prairie dogs or anything else you could conceivably cuddle with. They're cute...
For a moment, wind accounts for more than half of Spain’s...
For a brief moment one September night, the wind howled across the plains of Spain, and Spaniards made the most of it...
Low religious involvement in new poll: What does it mean?
A new Pew Research poll says Americans are less religiously involved than ever: 20 percent are not affiliated with a particular religious institution...
