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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 ...
‘Hi’ in the sky
Wind chimes, two old dogs in the sunlight. Andy, wiry and tall, long hair, in a sleeveless T, and his wife, Julie, on their...
Community shares loss, pulls together during Fourmile Canyon blaze
As the Fourmile Fire continues to burn across more than 6,000 acres, stories from those who fear or know they lost homes are emerging from the haze, and community assistance efforts are ramping up to help those in need...
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...
A new era of activism
It is common to see professional ski mountaineer Caroline Gleich skiing an untouched line in the Wasatch Mountains one day, and the next day...
Why is anti-Semitism illegal and Islamophobia not in Europe?
We all know that the recent YouTube trailer The Innocence of Muslims and the repeated publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are tests of free speech...
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...
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 ...
Ease the harm
On a Friday afternoon, student-athletes from Boulder High School were practicing at Christian Recht Field. Around 4:30 p.m. people reported hearing “small explosions.”
As students...
On the range
Here’s the problem: People are allowed to shoot firearms in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests, but homeowners and recreationalists complain about noise and...
So the story goes
"It’s good to see spring. We’ve made it through another winter,” Marjorie Wheelock says, sitting at her kitchen table, stacks of tribal documents, newspaper...
A reason for hope
Jim Eastman needs a new kidney. But so do 1,941 other people in Colorado and Wyoming according to the Donor Alliance, a nonprofit organ...
