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Rep. John Lewis on freedom riders getting beaten by the KKK
Boulder Weekly spoke with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) about the Civil Rights Movement, the Freedom Rides, and parallels between the struggle for racial equality and the struggle to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation. Lewis will speak about the new ...
Borders files for bankruptcy; almost 200 stores to close, 6 in...
DETROIT — Borders Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after five years of turnaround efforts failed to return the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based bookseller to health...
Sources: Disney raises DVD prices for Redbox, Netflix
LOS ANGELES — Amid calls from some on Wall Street to choke off the supply of newly released DVDs to discount movie rental services, the Walt Disney Co. has quietly decided to raise its wholesale prices on new-release DVDs for Redbox and Netflix, according to people ...
Bill would ban edible forms of medical marijuana
Concern about patient safety and medical marijuana unintentionally making its way into the hands of minors is what drove State Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, to introduce House Bill 1250. If passed, the bill would remove ingestible forms of medical marijuana from the ...
Obama’s budget will add $7 trillion to national debt
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a federal budget for fiscal 2012 that would pare back record budget deficits, but still add nearly $7 trillion to the nation's debt over the next decade...
Former USDA official Sherrod sues Web gadfly Breitbart over video that...
WASHINGTON — Shirley Sherrod has filed a defamation suit against Andrew Breitbart...
Frankenfoods
Recent decisions by federal authorities to allow the unregulated planting of genetically modified alfalfa and sugar beets have some fearing that the approvals may take root in Boulder County’s own approach to the genetically engineered crops...
Briefs | Legislative forum
Legislative forum Several local legislators will attend a forum on Feb. 12 from 10 a.m. to noon on the CU-Boulder campus in the new Visual Arts Building, Room 1B-99...
Roger Ebert leaves CWA for good
After more than 40 years as a regular at the Conference on World Affairs, Roger Ebert announced today that he will no longer host the Cinema Interruptus event. Jim Emerson, a Seattle film critic and editor of rogerebert.com, will take Ebert's place...
