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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...
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...
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...
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 second chance for Dearfield
Colorado’s historical Black homestead is on the verge of dissolution, but could be saved at the final hour by the National Park System
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
Case pending
Martin hadn’t planned on coming to the U.S. He really hadn’t ever thought about leaving his native Cameroon. Part of the Anglophone minority, he...
State of the arts
“I'm going to give you a little slice of reality,” Lori Preston, executive director of the Museum of Boulder, says over a Zoom call....
