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Educational resources
The Museum of Boulder has compiled a list of lesson plans, downloadable activities and local history references for teachers to use. You can also...
Federal judge orders ORR and ICE to release minors with ‘greater...
Before the summer of 2018, most Americans had never heard of the Flores settlement or about the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and its...
Boulder chiropractor hit with a cease and desist from the AG
On April 24, the Colorado Attorney General’s office sent out three cease and desist letters to companies advertising COVID-19 antibody and home test kits....
Price gouging, scams and identity theft
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., basic necessities like toilet paper and disinfectants have become not only rare, but expensive....
There’s a new chief in town
On April 20, Boulder’s new, and first female, police chief started work in the midst of a global pandemic and public health crisis. Maris...
Why low oil prices spell trouble for Colorado’s oil and gas...
On April 21, crude oil prices dropped below $0 per barrel, meaning companies were paying others to unburden themselves from oil contracts. The numbers...
Kindness, delivered
It was “just a typical, normal day on the delivery route,” for Colton Coulimore, an almost-30-year-old Amazon Prime driver from Longmont. Then, as he...
News roundup: Boulder City Council and other news
Boulder City Council votes against online petition signature gathering
At its virtual meeting on Tuesday, April 21, Boulder City Council voted against an emergency order...
The future of our survival
As friends and colleagues watched their bank accounts inflate by $1,200 (or more, depending on the size of their family) in mid-April, my husband...
Local homeless services still looking for solutions, volunteers
It’s been a little more than a month since the reality of the coronavirus pandemic really began to sink in, and local and state...
Mobile home owners face rent increases and lost wages during the...
Most of the mobile home community folks I’ve talked with were able to handle April rent. But they have lost hours, contract work, or...
The great divorce: The People of Colorado v. the State
When I was a boy, my dad took me and my twin sister and brothers to see the demolition of the Omaha-Grant Smoke Stack...