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Summer of our discontent
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...
Park Service kills hundreds of bison despite objections from Native Americans...
The Buffalo Field Campaign, which monitors the Yellowstone border and tracks the park’s bison management activities, reports that 410 wild bison have been trapped and removed for slaughter in recent weeks...
Back to the future
Lately, I have found myself haunted by a particular conversation I had with historian Howard Zinn some two decades ago. And I’ve been feeling...
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...
‘Money always helps’
Last November, Miguel Alvina headed to the recently opened Meow Wolf Denver for a series of meetings that would set the course for his...
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....
The tide has turned
Days after lawmakers began debating a package of firearm regulation bills at the Colorado Capitol, a Colorado Springs man walked into a birthday party...
Boulder considers removing ‘erroneous’ open space designation from Mapleton site
When the Mapleton Hill Investment Group submitted plans to the City of Boulder to build a 93-unit senior housing facility on the old Boulder...
Gold beneath the waters
When the Spanish came to the Cajamarca region of Peru looking for gold, they found the vast Incan empire instead. By 1532, Francisco Pizzaro...
Why low oil prices spell trouble for Colorado’s oil and gas...
On April 21, crude oil prices dropped below $0 per barrel, meaning companies were paying others to unburden themselves from oil contracts. The numbers...
In lieu of a just system
If you’re returning to Honduras, consider covering up any tattoos and be able to explain them if asked — the tattoos might be the...
Is abortion an ‘essential’ procedure?
On March 19, Colorado become one of several states that temporarily suspended “elective and non-essential surgeries” in order to limit public exposure to COVID-19...
