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City Ballot Issue 2B passes easily

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Boulder City Ballot Issue 2B, also called the “replacement tax” or the “utility occupation tax,” passed with a wide margin: 68.55 percent for and only 31.45 percent against. That means when Thanksgiving comes around, Boulderites can give thanks for the fact that ...

Library district, fancy fire station, and more

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What happened at Tuesday’s City Council meeting?

How Bad Was Mitt Romney’s Prep School Bullying?

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In a must-read piece today, the Washington Post’s...

Short-term memory loss hits Boulder power players

A Boulder Weekly request for phone records related to Boulder City Council member George Karakehian’s financial disclosures only raises more questions — and more suspicions...

Well drilling has deep impact on Great Plains’ health

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Oil wells and natural gas may have made individual Americans rich, but they have impoverished the great plains of North America, according to new research...

Elizabeth Smart’s abductor found guilty of kidnapping, rape

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SALT LAKE CITY — A federal jury in Salt Lake City on Friday convicted a self-proclaimed prophet and street preacher of kidnapping and repeatedly raping then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, rejecting arguments by the defense that Brian David Mitchell was insane at the ...

Even if defeated, anti-GMO movement gains ground

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California's Proposition 37, which would require food producers to label foods that contain genetically modified organisms, may not pass today. Support for the measure has dropped in the face of a massive advertising campaign from Monsanto and other massive ...

Imam’s e-mails to Fort Hood suspect tame compared with online rhetoric

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DALLAS — E-mails between a U.S. Army officer and a radical...