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Bringing the border to the Front Range

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"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...

Despite claims to the contrary, the U.S. Postal Service remains an...

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It’s a busy Monday afternoon at the post office on 55th and Valmont in Boulder. The line for the service counter stretches into the...

Resource brokers

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Victor King applied for his job at Mental Health Partners (MHP) on a handwritten note from the Boulder County Jail. He was in the...

The rent really is too damn high

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Section 8 isn’t enough anymore. That’s one (admittedly oversimplified) way to look at the housing crisis in America. Federal housing vouchers—often referred to as the...

ELECTION 2015

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Every year come election time, Boulder Weekly editorial staffers get to spend about two months immersing ourselves in seemingly every spec of political minutia from every corner of Boulder County. You might think that we would find fact checking a mill levy or taking...

Not even COVID could stop sports books from flooding Colorado

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This time last year, it wouldn’t have mattered much to Coloradans that Ukrainians were possibly fixing ping-pong matches.  But now that sports betting is legal...

A good bill goes down

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For the second year in a row, a bill aimed at recovering more than $100 million in tax revenue from Colorado businesses that stash...

BolderBoulder ‘sissy’ T-shirt stirs debate

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On May 26, tens of thousands of people from around the world will descend upon Boulder — some of them in traditional running gear, many of them in wacky costumes — to participate in the annual BolderBoulder, a 10-kilometer road race that has become one of America’s ...

What can we learn about criminal justice reform from the...

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The Boulder County Jail only had 199 inmates on Friday, May 22 — a record low, according to Sheriff Joe Pelle. The daily average...

MGA relaunches Bratz line with updated look

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The outfits are less sexy, the makeup and hair a bit...

Boulder County news roundup: Rocky Flats, Xcel and more

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Xcel, Boulder haven't identified power projects or costs after franchise agreement In an April hearing with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Xcel/Public Service Company of...

Summer of our discontent

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When Erin Swiatek began looking for a job last summer, she scoured her neighborhood for employment, but found even the fast food restaurants in the area around her home weren’t hiring...