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Boxed in: Resident says he turned to shipping containers after pressure
Shipping containers were not Mark Gelband’s first choice...
Proposed bill: local control over oil and gas activity
Comments from lawmakers, advocates and industry personnel were heard this week by a state assembly panel on a bill that would give local control...
Holding the Line
This summer and beyond, two oil and gas companies —Crestone and Extraction’s subsidiary 8 North — are moving forward with plans to develop new...
Taking initiative
It’s 9 a.m. on a Friday in Boulder and eviction court is underway. This week, Feb. 21, the docket is fairly light with only...
Out of the Fryingpan and into the Forest:
Conservationists are challenging a logging proposal that would clear-cut 1,300 acres in the White River National Forest northeast of Aspen, including endangered Canada lynx...
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...
A reason for hope
Jim Eastman needs a new kidney. But so do 1,941 other people in Colorado and Wyoming according to the Donor Alliance, a nonprofit organ...
Supporters of 2,500 foot Setback (initiative 97) turn in 171K signatures
It wasn't easy with the industry sending out an army of people to harass the men and woman who were gathering signatures for I-97,...
New Colorado bill prohibits using an immigrant’s status as extortion
It’s not every day you read about legislation that passes with unanimous, bipartisan support. But, on Monday, March 1, the Colorado House of Representatives...
Why is anti-Semitism illegal and Islamophobia not in Europe?
We all know that the recent YouTube trailer The Innocence of Muslims and the repeated publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are tests of free speech...
The future of our survival
As friends and colleagues watched their bank accounts inflate by $1,200 (or more, depending on the size of their family) in mid-April, my husband...
A prominent law professor talks immigration
It wasn’t that long ago that George W. Bush was a champion for the legalization of undocumented workers and Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and...
