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The X-Pod:

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Brooks Fickett called at 9:23 p.m. on Friday — about the time Hurricane Harvey was making landfall on the Texas coast. “Here are my hurricane...

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...

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...

Can local businesses survive the winter?

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Think about your favorite local business. Your favorite watering hole or hair salon or boutique outdoor retailer. Don’t — for just a minute —...

Valmont Butte’s got a dam problem, among others

Proof by assertion: Sometimes informally referred to as proof by repeated assertion, is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted ...

Hightide

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Ashley  is 32. She looks 52. A 20-year addiction to heroin has changed her. She sits in Boulder County detox, nine months sober, and talks about the most traumatic experience she’s had in her life. It lingers more than giving up two children, than walking away from a...

Nobody wins a nuclear war

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In what President Obama called “the most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” members of the North Atlantic...

Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines:

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This is the fifth excerpt Boulder Weekly has published from the Windows, Walls, and Invisible Lines: Portraits of Life in Sanctuary project. It’s been...

Project Censored’s Top 10 stories show missing patterns in corporate news

Every year since 1976, Project Censored has performed an invaluable service — shedding light on the most significant news that’s somehow not fit to...

What did we need to know during the shooting?

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For part one of this series, go here. Before the shooting had ceased at King Soopers on March 22, there was a livestream on YouTube...

Contaminants found at Valmont Butte

Arsenic: Skin damage, circulatory system problems, increased cancer risk. Symptoms of poisoning include nausea, anorexia, vomiting, epigastric and abdominal pain, and diarrhea, in addition to dermatitis, muscle cramps, cardiac abnormalities, hepatotoxicity (liver ...

Better Boulder members compelled to testify in Rosenblum defamation case

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An unsuccessful city council candidate, seeking support for his claims of a conspiracy against him, is forcing members of a Boulder political group to...