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‘Drastic action’
Boulder’s Police Oversight Panel (POP) last week enacted a partial work stoppage, even as they were warned by city attorneys that doing so could...
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...
NRA’s influence in Colorado politics is indirect, but powerful
A week after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, two nonprofit gun-control organizations placed a two-page ad in The...
Remembering Berta Cáceres
(return to Paying the price)
In the early morning of March 3, 2016, prominent environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was killed while sleeping...
Longmont eyes old sugar factory as site for dual theater performing...
According to council member Marcia Martin, the concept of turning Longmont’s defunct and dilapidated sugar factory into a performing arts center basically fell into...
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...
Studio Arts’ expanded facility set to open early next year
When executive director Kari Palazzari envisions Studio Arts’ new hub at Diagonal Crossing, she sees studio spaces full of students, a bustling gallery and...
Twice bitten? Second Crestone resident claims fraud
Another Crestone resident, Wooddora Eisenhauer, says that she, like her neighbor Bruce McDonald, has been victimized by banks’ predatory foreclosure practices...
Ghost Stories
If the fire had totaled Rocky Flats Lounge, you might not believe it ever existed. But there’d be too many people with ghost stories to say for sure...
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...
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...
The future of transportation in Boulder County, amended
Earlier this year, the Boulder County Board of Commissioners approved a transportation plan that calls for increased bus and rail service in the County,...
