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Sunlight Foundation unveils journalism effort-checker Churnalism
The process is this: Corporations, trade associations, governments, individuals and tons of other groups write up press releases about themselves. Then they send those to journalists. Then journalists put them into their publications. Then you, the reader, catches ...
COGCC budget in peril
You’ve seen the commercials: Good-looking people in vests and their good-looking dogs walking by crystal clear mountain streams, a burly voiceover saying something like,...
Cain dodges scandal questions on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — Herman Cain came to Capitol Hill to...
Top Toyota executive says company hasn’t ruled out electronics problem
WASHINGTON — Under relentless questioning from a congressional panel, a top Toyota...
‘Food, Inc.’ chicken farmer has a new, humane farm
Twelve minutes into the 2009 documentary Food, Inc...
Amid slow economic recovery, Boulder set to pilot UBI; in the...
Guaranteed income by another name?
The city is moving forward with plans to give cash to low-income Boulderites, though how much, to whom and for...
Whistleblower John Kiriakou comes to Boulder
It all started with John Kiriakou getting punched in the face — sort of.
It was the late ’80s. Kiriakou (pronounced kir-ee-ah-koo) was 23 and working...
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize
It was 5:30 a.m. Thursday in New York when Mario Vargas Llosa took a long-distance call...
GOP increasing minority voter suppression in Southern states
The racial demographics of the South are shifting quickly, and Republicans just aren't keeping up...
Exxon hit with $236M court fine in NH pollution case
A New Hampshire jury has found gas company ExxonMobil liable for a $236 million cleanup bill in a groundwater pollution lawsuit...
