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The cost of tilting at the 4/20 windmill
For the third consecutive year, the University of Colorado Boulder will spend upwards of $100,000 to close campus on April 20 in its effort to smother anything resembling a 4/20 marijuana smokeout, which the university says has become too disruptive. But only a ...
Rush Limbaugh Advertisers Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’...
Several of Rush Limbaugh's advertisers announced Friday that they...
Obama, Senate Republicans exchange testy comments over lunch
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans — notably 2008 GOP rival John McCain...
Microsoft’s energy management application available to Xcel customers
Starting today, Xcel Energy customers have access to...
Pharmacists describe local effects of shortage
Boulder County hospital pharmacy directors say they have felt the effects of the national prescription drug shortage, but luckily their patients have been spared from serious impacts so far...
Domestic violence nonprofits prepare for increased abuse
One abuser cut off his partner’s phone service after she stopped going to work due to the coronavirus, leaving her completely isolated from friends,...
Can RNAi technology save the honeybee?
In 2006, professional beekeepers in the U.S. began to report mass die-offs of their honeybee colonies, between 30 and 90 percent. Since then, “Colony collapse disorder” hasn’t slowed down...
It’s not about the bike
Boulder’s pristine Open Space trails are on the threshold of imminent destruction by an army of adrenaline-fueled, devil-may-care mountain bikers whose insatiable need for speed will inevitably leave behind a wake of flattened children, smashed hikers and scorched ...
Journalism students paid witness, Illinois prosecutors say
CHICAGO — The Cook County, Ill., state's attorney's office on...
Haitian children unite with adoptive families
LOS ANGELES — A harrowing effort to evacuate dozens of Haitian orphans to the United States started with some unexpectedly good news in those first terrible hours after the massive earthquake...
