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Trade war bounty

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Tariffs on U.S. goods have skyrocketed in the past year as the Trump administration has engaged in an escalating trade war with China. According...

ICE detaining transgender individuals despite widespread calls for their release

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This story was updated on Feb. 12 to reflect comments received from ICE post publication. In Estella’s home country of Cuba, transphobia is rampant, she...

Episcopal Church gives final OK to gay bishop in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — The Episcopal Church gave final approval Wednesday to the ordination of an openly gay bishop in Los Angeles, putting a face behind a policy that has divided the church and caused some of its more conservative members to break away...

Fracking gets its own Occupy movement

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This is a story about water, the land surrounding it and the lives it...

Defined out of existence

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If you read through the 2010 Census form, past the part where it asks how many people are living in your house and past the part where it asks for people’s ages, you’ll find that there is a space for the American Latino contingent on Question 8. But immediately ...

Transparency trouble

The city of Boulder seems to have joined a growing number of government agencies in Colorado that have started charging more for — and taking more time to produce — public documents when faced with open records requests...

GMOs get a go-ahead

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If you slice open a strawberry, it still looks like a strawberry, whether it’s genetically modified or not. If you slice open the recent decision by the Cropland Policy Advisory Group on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and organic crops in Boulder County, it ...

Heath seeks re-election to state Senate

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State Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, formally kicked off his 2012 reelection bid on Wednesday...

GOP increasing minority voter suppression in Southern states

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The racial demographics of the South are shifting quickly, and Republicans just aren't keeping up...

Briefs | Longmont-Boulder trail section opens

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Longmont-Boulder trail section opens...

Sprint hit with $300 million lawsuit for tax fraud in New...

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Sprint has been slapped with a $300 million lawsuit by New York state...

Nedergate

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As the independent news organization for all of Boulder County, BW has, at one time or another, uncovered corruption and scandal at nearly every level of government in every town in the county. In the case of this story, it was Nederland’s Board of Trustees that was ...