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The Race for the Most Ethical Water Bottle
The recession has encouraged us to cut our frivolous spending...
Redbox, Verizon Team on Streaming Service
Redbox and Verizon are working on a streaming video service to take...
Why the Komen/Planned Parenthood Breakup—While It Lasted—Was Good for Feminism
My delight at the Susan G. Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood...
Giant Crack in Antarctica About to Spawn New York-Size Iceberg
With a gargantuan crack slowly splitting it apart, Antarctica's fastest-melting glacier is about to lose a chunk of ice larger than all of New York City, scientists say...
Facebook and Twitter are more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol, study...
A new study suggests that social networking services such as Facebook...
Feds seize 307 sports-related domains in advance of Super Bowl
Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307...
Turning the tables
In a recent Boulder Weekly article titled “Behind the GMO curtain” (Dec. 15), Lisa Drake, Monsanto’s Englewood-based lead for state and local government affairs, was quoted as saying “We [Monsanto] sure don’t make it a practice of suing our own customers.” Drake ...
Reverend Friendly, street poet, dies at 76
Laverne Lobdell, the heavily bearded, silver-tongued street poet known as Reverend Friendly, who haunted Boulder’s open mics for decades, died on Jan. 7. He was 76...
Valmont cemetery families say city in danger of digging up human...
One of the key elements that will ultimately determine how many millions of dollars will be spent cleaning up contamination that originated from milling operations once located on the City of Boulder’s 103-acre Valmont Butte property is whether or not adjacent ...
Lawyer: City/county could be liable for cemetery contamination
A Boulder environmental attorney says the city of Boulder and/or Boulder County could be held liable if the historic Valmont Cemetery is contaminated as a result of the current remediation effort at the butte...
Washington State Moves to Legalize Gay Marriage
The state Senate in Washington passed a bill on Wednesday night that puts the Evergreen State on a course to becoming the seventh state in the country to legalize gay marriage...
Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil’s Forecast Is In
In the afterglow of early morning fireworks on Groundhog Day 2012, the Inner Circle of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania—human handlers of the word's most famous groundhog—took the stage at rural Gobbler's Knob to introduce what Vice President Mike Johnston called "the ...
