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The X-Pod:
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines:
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...
Can local businesses survive the winter?
Think about your favorite local business. Your favorite watering hole or hair salon or boutique outdoor retailer. Don’t — for just a minute —...
Nobody wins a nuclear war
In what President Obama called “the most significant reinforcement of our collective defense any time since the Cold War,” members of the North Atlantic...
What did we need to know during the shooting?
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...
Off Target, Part 7
Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) $4.6 million predator control plans, which mandate the killing of hundreds of mountain lions and black bears...
Sierra Club’s state chapter endorses oil and gas setbacks, national org...
On April 14, the Colorado chapter of Sierra Club officially endorsed Ballot Initiative 97, which, if passed, would require all new oil and gas...
Earl Turner has an ally in the White House
At this point, most Americans are painfully aware that instances of gun violence, particularly mass shootings, are on the rise. Yet, as most of...


















