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Off Target 11: Time running out for lions, bears and your...
In mid-December, the USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services (WS) released its pre-decisional Draft Environmental Assessment for its predator damage management in Colorado. The draft is now in...
Police use of facial recognition technology gets spotlight
For all intents and purposes, facial recognition technology for law enforcement agencies is in its beta stage. Now that doesn’t mean police departments haven’t...
Apocolypse Now on the Mekong River
Smoke hangs heavy in the air over the Mekong River in northern Thailand. Dawn is breaking over the village of Chiang Khong and with...
Proposed water diversion and Gross Reservoir expansion may trigger all-out water...
Water has never come easy in the West, and when people start eying the last few drops of an already dying river, things can get tense in a hurry, even in an era of Colorado River Kumbaya...
Off Target: Part 2 Update: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission predator...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) two predator management plans have been embroiled in controversy and uncertainty as to their scientific legitimacy since being unanimously...
The victim penalty
By her own account, Kristin Vietti is stubborn—for the last 13 years, she’s refused to pay the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) the thousands...
Death by a thousand cuts
Since taking office nearly three years ago, President Donald Trump and his administration have been steadily undermining some of the nation’s key environmental protections,...
Eracism: Latino history in Boulder County
Back then, the signs in the storefronts read, “No dogs or Mexicans allowed...
Gun control
Here’s the good news: America, overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate is almost half...
Fighting drugs with drugs
Often misconstrued and exorbitantly priced, Vivitrol stands at the forefront of the pharmacological effort to fight drugs with drugs. Assessing its effectiveness means sifting...
Heath care: A right or a privilege?
As Colorado voters weigh in on Amendment 69 this fall, they are the first in the nation to consider a single-payer health care system...
Strength in numbers
Masa Holle had been tired for a long time, exhausted really. Maybe it was chronic fatigue syndrome, maybe something else. She never could get...
