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Not in my backyard
When Vic Pizzo moved into a southwest Longmont neighborhood five years ago, it quickly became home.
He calls Clover Creek a “nice place to live”...
Waste injection wells: The Earth’s invisible dump
April 10, 1967, was no ordinary day in Boulder County...
The forest is crying
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
The quote is attributed to Crazy Horse in the late 19th century, as he...
Fentanyl in the family
Boulder County is far from immune to the national opioid epidemic. Whether it’s high-profile overdose deaths, like that of Eric Chase Bolling Jr., a...
Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre merge
After nearly a decade of positioning and posturing by both sides, the Boulder Theater and Fox Theatre have merged into a single limited liability corporation. Executives from the new parent company, Z2 Entertainment, announced the merger at George's bar, adjacent to ...
Gingerbread Houses from Whole Foods recalled
State health officials are warning consumers who purchased assembled gingerbread houses from Whole Foods Market between Nov. 1 and Dec. 23 that the product has been recalled by the manufacturer due to bacterial contamination. The gingerbread houses have been linked ...
Lawmaker: Stop shackling inmates in labor
A state lawmaker is introducing a bill that would prohibit the shackling of pregnant inmates while they are in labor...
There’s a new chief in town
On April 20, Boulder’s new, and first female, police chief started work in the midst of a global pandemic and public health crisis. Maris...
ICE detaining transgender individuals despite widespread calls for their release
This story was updated on Feb. 12 to reflect comments received from ICE post publication.
In Estella’s home country of Cuba, transphobia is rampant, she...
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...
Black men still overrepresented in prison
For a while now, we’ve known that black men are more likely to end up in prison than white men. Why isn’t this changing...


















