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Boulder could play central role in shaping state pretrial reform legislation
Boulder has become the center of a robust debate about criminal justice reform as legislation proposed by the ACLU and introduced in the Colorado...
Amazon’s ruthless practices are crushing Main Street
Even by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com’s alpha male, Jeff Bezos, is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. As overlord of Amazon, by far the largest online marketer in the world (with more sales than the ...
Climbers rescued
Late on March 4, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, Rocky Mountain Fire Authority and Rocky Mountain Rescue responded to a report that two climbers were stuck on the Red Garden Wall in Eldorado Canyon State Park...
Living in the light
The day after Oscar Juarez publicly announced his immigration status — undocumented, brought to the U.S. at age 7 by parents desperate to escape their impoverished lives in Mexico and eager to promise their children more and better opportunities — he walked into the ...
The beginning of the end for zero tolerance in schools
Driven by his frustration with New Jersey’s restrictive medical marijuana program, Ricardo Rivera crowd-funded a research trip to Colorado. He wanted more information about extracting cannabis oil for his daughter and a new law that means sick kids can be treated ...
Not one more
Activists stand with black tape covering their mouths, holding large empty plates and posters that read “Not one more” and “We stand with Shoeb.” One simply says “Solidarity” in large black letters. They are standing outside of the Denver Contract Detention Facility ...
Amtrak train kills 2 teens south of Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Two teenage girls were struck and killed by an Amtrak train about nine miles south of Philadelphia on Thursday...
10th annual 5k for dog lovers
Nonprofit organization Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) has announced the 10th anniversary of the Canine Classic, a 5K for runners, walkers and dog lovers of all ages...
Locals recall Pioneer Inn’s wild days as it turns 40
"People would just start shaking, and the room would go quiet,” a man known as “Cajun” Dave Harbour says of those long-ago Friday nights when Grande Rojo, a gigantic miner, would stride through Nederland’s historic bar, the Pioneer Inn. If you were a cheat, a thief, ...
KGNU to broadcast live from RockyGrass Festival
Boulder independent community radio station KGNU (88.5 FM and 1390...
Six more takedowns of Stanford organic study — and media’s reporting...
A Stanford study that concluded organic food doesn't provide greater nutritional benefit than conventionally grown food is taking its licks in the media...
