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Program to drive veterans to medical appointments seeing continued growth
Sometimes, they trade war stories — from Vietnam, Guadalcanal, Korea, Japan. Sometimes, they just sit in the silence. Once, they sang. When Gary Jones opens his car door to drive veterans to and from their medical appointments, a program run by Veterans Helping ...
Atlantis to lift off in last shuttle launch of the year
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew...
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Boulder’s first of three “rightsizing” pilot projects has rubbed many Boulder residents the wrong way — so wrong, in fact, that on July 28, City Council decided not to move forward with the next two pilot projects as soon as initially planned. The first project — ...
Black Friday deals abound, but will they meet expectations?
RALEIGH, N.C. — Come Friday, the deal hunters swarming America's stores will find plenty of low prices...
Dreaming of a future
This is the second installment of a five-part series on undocumented Latinos in Boulder County...
From the shadows
Jose Beteta’s American story is a familiar kind. When he came to the United States, he was just 13 years old. His parents wanted a better life for him and his brothers and America provided good work and a fine educational system. So his family made the big decision, ...
Turning the tables
In a recent Boulder Weekly article titled “Behind the GMO curtain” (Dec. 15), Lisa Drake, Monsanto’s Englewood-based lead for state and local government affairs, was quoted as saying “We [Monsanto] sure don’t make it a practice of suing our own customers.” Drake ...
Speeding into the future
When Daryl Oster was a young boy living on his family’s farm outside of Greeley, he used to go with his father to the salvage yard to pick up supplies. That’s where he became acquainted with pneumatic tubes — like the contraptions banks used to suck your deposit from...
Fracking disposal well causes over 100 earthquakes in Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio had its first earthquake in 2011. It had its 100th earthquake in 2011, too...
Kirk Cameron of ‘Growing Pains’ Says He’s Not Homophobic, Explains Christian...
Kirk Cameron doesn’t speak in sound bites. He’s in New York on Monday afternoon to promote his new documentary, Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure...
Shake It Off: Earth’s Wobble May Have Ended Ice Age
The last big ice age ended about 11,000 years ago, and not a moment...
Differences of opinion on safety remain for Casey school
When Pete Rast’s daughter came home from Casey Middle School this winter talking about classes being moved from classrooms to the library because of concerns over sewer gas smells, Rast followed up with her school principal...

















