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Longmont woman caught between two laws
The last time Ashley Weber turned her head to look to the side, it was to watch the drunk driver who had just wrecked the truck she was a passenger in walk away from the car. He’d said he was going to take her on the ride of her life, and refused to hand over the ...
Amazon to Colorado associates: You’re fired!
On Monday morning Colorado-based Amazon Associates woke up to an e-mail informing them that they were fired. Amazon said thanks to Colorado House Bill 10-1193 signed by Gov. Bill Ritter last month, all of their Colorado-based associates accounts have been shut down. ...
Colorado’s ‘Soul Food Scholar’ on history, publishing, race and barbecue
How did Colorado’s Adrian Miller, an attorney with degrees from Stanford and Georgetown, go from working in the Clinton administration and serving as a...
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines: Rosa Sabido
ROSA SABIDO
As I drove west of Durango, Colorado, on Highway 160, the absurdity of it all began to set in, aided by the landscape....
Boxed in: Resident says he turned to shipping containers after pressure
Shipping containers were not Mark Gelband’s first choice...
Industrial gravel mining in Boulder County clears hurdle
Twenty years ago, Boulder County granted a special use permit that allowed a company to mine gravel on about 650 acres between Lyons and...
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...
Advancing democracy
After nearly two years of development, Boulder’s first-of-its-kind electronic petitioning system is scheduled to begin serving citizen campaigns in the 2021 election season. For...
Troubled Waters
On April 23, Charles Edward Waters, a homeless man best known around Boulder for playing his guitar on the Pearl Street Mall for tips, was, for all intents and purposes, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison...
New report tells us what we already know
This just in: Boulder is expensive. But the concentration of our wealth (about half of Boulder households make $75,000 or more annually) and the rate at which our wealth is growing is on a collision course with the dwindling number of affordable houses and rentals. ...
Dying for the truth
In recent weeks, sources have come forward objecting to the conduct of the forensic pathologist Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall has contracted to conduct many of the county’s autopsies, Dr. Michael Arnall. They have called his behavior unprofessional and claim he ...
City of Boulder recommends controversial Nextdoor.com
In what the City calls an effort to increase community engagement, Boulder recently started using the neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor.com to communicate with...
