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Joining forces
On Feb. 1, 2022, Boulder’s City Council voted 6-3 to allow a Boulder Police Department (BPD) officer to join the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task...
Bringing the border to the Front Range
"Does it snow here in December?” she asks me, sitting in the shade of a tree outside a Denver church on an 80-degree June...
A jobless economy and a citizenless democracy are upon us
Right before scientist Gill Pratt left his post as the lead robotics researcher for the U.S. Department of Defense last August, he published a...
High density, low confidence
Perhaps the biggest issue in Boulder, and Boulder County to a growing extent, is density. How will we accommodate the ever-growing number of people who work and live here if we can’t build up and we can’t build out...
The million-dollar question
For Jonathan Obert, it all hit a bit differently this time. Born and raised in Boulder,
Obert was at Horizon High School in Broomfield right...
The billionaire’s press dominates censorship beat
Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader...
Deported to death
When he was a little boy in El Salvador, Jaime Leon Rivas never wondered about George Washington even though the president’s face was everywhere. The U.S. dollar is the country’s official currency, but Rivas, who was poor and living with his grandparents, rarely saw...
MGA relaunches Bratz line with updated look
The outfits are less sexy, the makeup and hair a bit...
What can we learn about criminal justice reform from the...
The Boulder County Jail only had 199 inmates on Friday, May 22 — a record low, according to Sheriff Joe Pelle. The daily average...
Resource brokers
Victor King applied for his job at Mental Health Partners (MHP) on a handwritten note from the Boulder County Jail. He was in the...


















