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What can we learn about criminal justice reform from the...
The Boulder County Jail only had 199 inmates on Friday, May 22 — a record low, according to Sheriff Joe Pelle. The daily average...
No confidence in the system
Alma Rosa Perez-Aguirre cried all the way back to Longmont from the Sterling Correctional Facility. She had left Boulder County around 5 a.m. on...
News Roundup: Automatic Voter Registration, COVID-19 case at Aurora detention center...
Updated Automatic Voter Registration hits Colorado
The Colorado Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) system passed by lawmakers in 2019 is now live statewide. Under the new...
Why is Boulder pursuing a partnership with Xcel when residents have...
Over the last decade, Boulder residents voted to pursue a municipal electric utility six times: First, in 2011, to authorize a municipal utility and...
Signs of the times
Early in the coronavirus shutdown, Boulder photographer Marsha Steckling walked Pearl Street, only seeing three or four people out on the mall. And the...
Weaponizing statistics
"When one man dies, it’s a tragedy; when 100,000 men die, it’s a statistic.”
This quote is variously attributed to Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler or...
The controversy surrounding CU South explained
Around 7 p.m. on the evening of Sept. 12, 2013, Marki LeCompte left her mother’s apartment at the Frasier retirement community, driving the block...
‘Hard to imagine it’s going to get worse’
When Sophie Feder Rosenberg was supposed to start walking, at around 18 months old, she didn’t want to. It seemed like she was in...
What we don’t talk about when we talk about masks
When the CDC urged everyone to wear cloth face masks when out in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus at the beginning...
Senior living facilities work to contain COVID-19 as Colorado moves...
As the state of Colorado begins to loosen stay-at-home restrictions, one place they’ll remain is in senior living facilities across the state. There will...
Nasty surprises and how to deal with them
Stephen Schneider died on July 19, 2010 of a pulmonary embolism on a flight from Stockholm to London. He was 65, one of the...
Class is in… the home
Kids, particularly those who are under 6 or are neurodiverse, learn critical socialization skills in school. But with local school districts switching to online...
