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Kevin Costner may hold key to oil spill cleanup
LOS ANGELES — The "Kevin Costner solution" to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish...
Sneak attack
Astonishing. Remarkable. Sinister. Those are words that come up again and again when confronting the wave of voter identification laws that has swept through more than 30 Republican-dominated state legislatures in recent years. The measures sound innocuous enough: ...
Christian event raises concerns
The local chapter of the Audubon Society has jumped into the fray over the Heaven Fest music festival that is to be held on July 31 next to Union Reservoir in Longmont...
Boulder homeless man to run for city council
A homeless man in Boulder has decided to run for city...
‘Global Frackdown’ protest to be held Saturday in Longmont
Anti-fracking activists are planning a major demonstration in Longmont on Saturday, Sept. 22, as part of an international “Global Frackdown” aimed at protesting the practice of hydraulic fracturing...
Chancellor: Discontinue, reorganize CU’s J school
CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano agrees that the School of Journalism and Mass Communication should be discontinued and then reorganized.In a Jan. 10 letter to CU President Bruce Benson, DiStefano concurs with the findings of a campus committee and recommends ...
Boulder seek suspects in possible hate crime, robbery
Boulder police have released sketches of suspects they are seeking in two recent incidents — one involving a possible hate crime against two Middle Eastern men, and one involving an aggravated robbery.The possible bias-motivated assault occurred during two separate ...
Review: Apple’s iPhone 5 in 4900 words
The anticipation was huge, and now, Apple's iPhone 5 is here. How awesome and badass is it? How much Android ass does it kick? How much should we be willing to pay (or wait) for one?I have no idea. I'm not slogging through the biggest review of anything I've ever ...
Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads
On Monday, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google’s license application to test autonomous vehicles on the state’s roads. The state had approved such laws back in February, and has now begun issuing licenses based on those regulations...
The answer is Colombia
I wish I could say my passion for Colombia was born from a deep intellectual yearning — from the pages of a Gabriel García Márquez novel or a love for Spanish Baroque painting or a lifelong exploration of the Spanish language — but that’s not the case. Not even a ...
Amazonian Tribes Try Harvesting Rainwater After Oil Drilling Polluted Their Water
Oil companies started drilling around Ecuador’s Lago Agrio in 1972...