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The New Gold Rush: Part I

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As climate change, infrastructure projects and politics continue to imperil future access to water in the West, Boulder Weekly will be examining the landscape...

Signs of the times

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Early in the coronavirus shutdown, Boulder photographer Marsha Steckling walked Pearl Street, only seeing three or four people out on the mall. And the...

The cost of becoming American

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On July 31, United States Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced significant fee increases for most naturalization and benefits requests. While the agency justified...

Mobile home owners face rent increases and lost wages during the...

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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...

Red flag laws are saving lives. They could save more.

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By Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts If you or someone you know is concerned about domestic violence, you can call...

Lessons from Venezuela’s free fall

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As a young man living in Venezuela, Jose Garcia remembers being woken up in the middle of the night by his mother to watch...

Bullets or bongs?

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Because of a conflict between state marijuana statutes and federal gun laws, Colorado residents must choose between owning guns and using marijuana. Yet state law enforcement officials are virtually powerless to enforce the intersection where those conflicting laws ...

Cropped out

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Of the 24 organic farmers who started working Boulder County land in 2011, only five are still in business. There are a lot of reasons...

The curation of discovery: Part 1

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Cache/Artifact/Element: Romero’s Shovel The Mahaffy Cache is a collection of 86 supposedly 13,000-year-old stone artifacts that were discovered by a landscaper, Romero, who worked on...

Camping bans, occupancy limits and standardized testing

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Larimer County District Court rules camping ban unconstitutional, a first in the state Homeless advocates have long argued that local ordinances preventing camping in public...

Marshall Fire recovery

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Two years after the Marshall Fire, nearly 300 households have moved back into a rebuilt home. That’s an important number — it symbolizes the...

New law will help some caught in student debt crisis

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With the announcement of President Trump’s 2020 budget came proposals to significantly alter how, and even if, people pay off student debt with the...