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Whole Foods will require GMO labeling on its foods by 2018
Whole Foods Market has announced it will place labels on all foods containing genetically modified organisms by 2018...
Helping hands
A waterfall crashes into a river. There is a crowd on the riverbank. In the river there is a drowning child, fallen from the top of the waterfall. The people in the crowd link arms and create a chain. The chain pulls the child to safety. Then another child falls in. ...
Obama to push BP to set up oil-spill damage fund
ATLANTA — In an effort to seize greater control of the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, President Barack Obama...
What can our protected places teach us about saving the Arctic?
Our national parks have been called “America’s best idea,” and...
People’s tribunal finds ICE guilty
It wasn’t a real courtroom, but the 200-plus people in attendance took the final verdict seriously. When the word “guilty” finally rang out, it...
City funding available for youth projects
The City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Program is offering grant funds to support cultural, recreational or educational opportunities in the state for Boulder resident middle- or high-school-age youth...
Discovery CEO warns Dish Network against skipping ads
Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav warned Dish Network that...
Losing my place
I think all of us are influenced by a sense of place. Grow up amidst skyscrapers and it’s pretty easy to see humans as life’s central architects. Spend enough time in the wide-open West and you just might feel a bit less important in the overall scheme of things...
Elevations Credit Union refuses business with medical marijuana dispensaries
Add one of Boulder County’s local financial institutions, Elevations Credit Union, to the ever-growing list of financial institutions that are refusing to do business with Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensaries...
Clean acres
After an outcry last spring about possible threats to local water quality, Boulder County officials have been keeping a closer eye on the use of biosolids, or treated human sewage, on open space farmland...
