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Boulder County Commissioners extend oil and gas moratorium until 2021
Boulder County will not consider any new oil and gas development applications until at least...
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...
Boulder police union offers thoughts on reform
Amid nationwide calls to defund or disband the police, the Boulder Police Officers’ Association issued a letter June 29 to offer its thoughts on...
A win, but not the end of the fight
Since President Trump took office in 2017, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has hung in the balance. First introduced in 2012...
CU study pinpoints the worst ‘fake news’ offenders
What is “fake news”? Where does it come from, and who spreads it? And what impact does it have on democracy?
Those were the questions...
Colorado education funding takes multi-million-dollar hit
Colorado students entering 10th grade in the fall will never have been in a fully funded public school classroom.
After recent cuts at the state...
World Sickle Cell Day highlights disease predominantly affecting people of color
Juneteenth celebrates African American freedom, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. and acknowledging a period in history that has had long-lasting influences...
Footing the bill
For years, environmentalists have raised concerns that oil and gas companies were going to leave communities on the hook for the billions of dollars...
A first step
In one of the first moves following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in late May, Minneapolis public schools...
Goodbye, environmental protections
It’s almost summer, which means those of us who live along the Front Range ought to prepare for high ozone days.
On May 28, the...
I can’t breathe
A 6-year-old girl sits on the shoulders of her father’s friend. As she’s asked, “What did daddy do?” she smiles and responds, “Daddy changed the...
Trump’s executive order on internet speech trickles down to Boulder County
"Get the facts about mail-in ballots.”
The fact-check heard ’round the world. Two days after Twitter slapped a fact-checking label on a tweet from President...
