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Blueprint for a movement
Born and raised in Boulder, historian Allyson Brantley knows a thing or two about Coors Brewery. So a few years ago she was shocked...
Boulder County news roundup: Rocky Flats, Xcel and more
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Election recap
While most of the country, and world for that matter, has been singularly focused on the presidential election, plenty happened with ballot measures both...
Despite claims to the contrary, the U.S. Postal Service remains an...
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...
The Peace Sign on the Mountain
After returning from a stint in Vietnam, Jack Olsen enrolled at CU where he became, among other things, a journalism major and the night city editor at the Colorado Daily, which was still the campus newspaper back then...
Budget deadline for gutting the EPA has arrived
When the Trump administration released its 2018 draft budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May, it was met with wide-ranging criticisms due...
Petition for home rule circulates Boulder County
An initiative to create “home rule” in Boulder County, which might allow it to ban fracking, GMO cropping and other ventures currently under state jurisdiction, is under way after the Boulder County Clerk recently approved an initial petition for the case...


















