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Longmont fractivists overcame $443K campaign to pass ban
As organizers drew together for the campaign to ban fracking in Longmont, they faced a slew of obstacles, from explicit threats of lawsuits by the governor to being out-fundraised by the oil and gas industry by about $18 for every $1 donated to their campaign — and ...
Happy Sunshine Week: Introducing The Foilies
Welcome once again to Sunshine Week! It’s that time of year when journalists, citizen watchdogs, community activists, data wizards, political gadflies, public-records litigators and open-gov fanatics come together to champion the cause of transparency and commiserate...
Boulder police investigating check fraud scam
Detectives with the Boulder Police Department are...
Controversy grows as Hall denies excluding ballot activists from printer
Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall is sticking by her story that it was the printing facility, not her office, that refused to grant activists access to the local ballot-printing operation last week...
Missing clerk accused of taking lottery ticket from customer
DALLAS — Willis Willis may have had the winning lottery...
‘Food, Inc.’ chicken farmer has a new, humane farm
Twelve minutes into the 2009 documentary Food, Inc...
Election activist mulls recount
The votes haven’t even been tallied yet, but some local election integrity activists are already considering pushing for a recount of Boulder County’s Nov. 6 ballot count...
Home again
The television cameras started to leave after the prayer circle disbanded. One by one — the camera guy with the tiny bulldog of a man reporting; the camera guy of the pretty young reporter with perfect hair; the camera guy who knocked over an elderly woman with a ...
Personhood revisited
Controversial ban on abortion returns to ballot Colorado voters will again be asked this fall to decide whether to legally apply the term “person” to a fertilized human egg. Amendment 62, known unofficially as the Definition of Person amendment and the Fetal ...
CU leaders balk at Proposition 103
Despite the ongoing budget crisis throttling public higher education in the state, neither the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents nor its president is endorsing Proposition 103, which would raise about $3 billion for education, including higher education...
Rogue election group takes on county clerk
The majority of the group charged with certifying the results of the Boulder County election has started meeting early, in defiance of Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall, in part due to concerns like the possibility of ballots being traced back to voters...
Girls sue over breast-cancer bracelet ban
EASTON, Pa.—Two middle schoolers suspended for wearing "I (heart) Boobies" wristbands in class are suing the Easton Area School District, saying the school's dress code violates their First Amendment rights...
