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Cropped out
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
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...
Marshall Fire recovery
Two years after the Marshall Fire, nearly 300 households have moved back into a rebuilt home. That’s an important number — it symbolizes the...
Opportunity knocks
Walk into the indoor mall at Diagonal Plaza on any given weekday and it’ll most likely be empty. Gutted restaurants and gated storefronts line...
Moving in seven directions
"This is my way home,” says Matt Bad Wound. He is one of several people making a 350-mile journey from Boulder, Colorado, to Pine...
Local teachers, administrators may have different ideas on school reopening
Face shields, gloves and masks for teachers. Physically distanced classrooms. In-school instruction two days a week. Hand-washing stations, limited bus transportation, sanitizing high-touch surfaces,...
Oil and gas emissions help push Front Range ozone levels over...
On any given day, emissions from oil and gas activity in Colorado can make a big enough contribution to ground-level ozone levels that it...
Empowering the survivor voting block
The passing of Supreme Court Justice and women’s equality champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in conjunction with National Voter Registration Day, brought a surge of...
News briefs: Red Letter Books closing, oil and gas leasing pause...
Red Letter Secondhand Books set to close at end of April as building is scheduled for demolition
After more than 30 years in business, Red...
What went wrong with the Colorado health co-op
When Obamacare passed, I just cried. I watched the votes come in,” says Emilyn Inglis of Lyons.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7,...
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...
Decision time… again
Mary Smith takes a seat with her back to the crowd, some two-dozen people gathered in the third-floor hearing room of the Boulder County...
