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U.S. unemployment rate drops to 8.6 percent in November
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers, continuing a pattern of...
Rick Perry: Texas Won’t Implement Key Obamacare Provisions
Add Rick Perry to the list of governors refusing to implement key portions of President Obama's landmark health care reform law...
Journalism students paid witness, Illinois prosecutors say
CHICAGO — The Cook County, Ill., state's attorney's office on...
Hightower event benefits KGNU
Syndicated columnist Jim Hightower, whose column is a Boulder Weekly mainstay, will speak at 7 p.m. on Feb. 4 at the Mercury Café in Denver and at 7 p.m. on Feb. 5 at Boulder Unity Church...
New York mayor Bloomberg endorses Obama on green grounds
Like the racist grandfather who finally changes his mind when a relative marries a minority, some of us don't understand an issue until it's plopped right at our doorstep...
Are pro-fracking online comments coming from paid shills?
Here at Boulder Weekly, we welcome robust discussion of our...
Killing Amendment 2
In 1993, the year of Boulder Weekly’s birth, an uproar began over Colorado voters’ passage of Amendment 2, which banned any laws protecting gays from discrimination. The cities of Boulder, Denver and Aspen had passed such laws...
Debate over fracking intensifies
The local battle over fracking has been heating up this week on several fronts, from a new study on oil and gas impacts on ozone levels to volleys fired in the city of Longmont’s legal defense of its ban on hydraulic fracturing...
Get your green on
Connor O’Neils (1922 13th St., Boulder) Boulder’s only Irish pub is offering a day of celebration to commemorate its Irish roots. The pub will offer an Outdoor Irish Festival all day, featuring food and music from Trout Steak Revival at 2 p.m. and Tommy & the ...