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Landowners Call for Rejection of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Below is a recap of this week’s news related to the Keystone XL tar...
Dr. Laura to leave radio show amid controversy
LOS ANGELES — A week after igniting controversy with racially charged comments on her nationally syndicated radio show, advice guru Laura Schlessinger...
Longmont council member: Tax people for fracking lawsuit costs
While Longmont activists successfully landed a fracking ban question on the November ballot this week, one city council member hopes to put another initiative before the voters asking them how they would like to be taxed when the city loses a lawsuit over the ban...
July hottest month on record in U.S.—warming and drought to blame?
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, perhaps due to a combination of global warming and a widespread drought, experts say...
Locals pick sides in ‘free speech, hate speech’ debate
Free speech? Hate speech? Both? Neither?
Depending on who you talk to, all of the above were on display on Saturday, June 3 in downtown...
Obama Pushes Extension of Middle-Class Tax Cuts
President Obama this week will renew his push to extend tax cuts for...
Police issue alcohol tickets after fall at sorority house
Police have issued two tickets in relation to a Feb. 20 accident involving a drunken woman who fell off the roof of her sorority...
Senate passes $636-billion defense bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday passed a $636-billion defense appropriations bill that includes money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a 3.4 percent pay increase for the military and a two-month extension of unemployment benefits...
PayPal founder Peter Thiel donates $1.7M to Ron Paul PAC
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donated another $1.7 million in January...
Killing Amendment 2
In 1993, the year of Boulder Weekly’s birth, an uproar began over Colorado voters’ passage of Amendment 2, which banned any laws protecting gays from discrimination. The cities of Boulder, Denver and Aspen had passed such laws...
Census figures offer insight on growth, occupations
Materials provided by retired University of Colorado history professor Marjorie McIntosh, who is spearheading the Boulder County Latino History Project that inspired this series of articles, shed light on the demographics of the Latino population in several Boulder ...
