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Several years ago, as James Johnson was walking around Costco, a little girl came up to him, touched his arm and said, “You’re black.”...

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...

It was just before dawn, and they were moving quickly. A headlamp-guided group of activists, who call themselves water protectors, scurry in the middle of...

Boulder County is a hotbed of political and social activism. From the Rocky Flats Truth Force protests of the 1970s and ’80s to the...

In early April 2018, University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced the CU Student Government (CUSG) would lose control of about 90 percent...

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...

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...

Sparrow is a self-taught visual artist, pianist and chef — but has a masters degree in “creative writing.” He recently joined a Bhagavad-Gita study...

Days after lawmakers began debating a package of firearm regulation bills at the Colorado Capitol, a Colorado Springs man walked into a birthday party...

 Another Crestone resident, Wooddora Eisenhauer, says that she, like her neighbor Bruce McDonald, has been victimized by banks’ predatory foreclosure practices...

Earlier this year, the Boulder County Board of Commissioners approved a transportation plan that calls for increased bus and rail service in the County,...

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...