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ERACISM: Unwanted Latinos deported from Boulder County in the 1930s
Editor’s note: In Part 3 of our continuing “Eracism” series on the history of Latinos in Boulder County, being conducted in partnership with the Boulder County Latino History Project, we explore the role of the deportation of Latinos to Mexico in the 1930s...
A drop in the bucket
A few years ago, farmer Paul Kehmeier decided not to irrigate some of his alfalfa fields for part of the season, and instead take advantage...
Valmont residents confirm spread of contamination
Ann Miller and her husband Douglas used to live on Valmont Road — directly across the street from the primary tailings pond dike dam at Valmont Butte that is suspected of being a pathway for the contamination that ended up in the wells north of Valmont Road over the ...
No strings attached
The saying goes that if you give a man a fish he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he’ll...
Skin in the game
As Ryan Partridge was held in the Boulder County Jail over the course of nine months in 2016, his mental health quickly deteriorated. Previously...
Turning workers’ challenges into workplace assets
New state law aims to provide better jobs and pay for Colorado workers with disabilities.
Off Target Part 3: CPW and the oil and gas industry...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) two predator management plans have been ensnared in contention and doubt regarding their scientific legitimacy and underlying purpose since...
The trouble with Casey
Here’s what we know for sure about the air at Casey Middle School: It smells bad...
Disinformation: Contamination under Boulder’s Dushanbe Teahouse
In 1987, the people of Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, gave Boulder a traditional Tajik teahouse as a gift. In 1990, then-Mayor Leslie Durgin appointed a citizen task force to determine an appropriate site for the teahouse. The task force examined ...
Arapaho, local civic leaders meet to discuss ‘welcoming’ back native community
Local government and school district officials and staff are meeting with out-of-state Arapaho tribal members on June 7-8 to discuss how to forge restorative...
What would media literacy mean for Colorado’s students?
Earlier this year, regional director of the Associated Press Jim Clarke, speaking in favor of a bill to mandate media literacy education in Colorado,...
On the bricks
After reaching capacity at the North Boulder location some time ago, BookCliff Vineyards owner Ulla Merz has searched for a new space elsewhere in...

















