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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...
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...
Boulder could play central role in shaping state pretrial reform legislation
Boulder has become the center of a robust debate about criminal justice reform as legislation proposed by the ACLU and introduced in the Colorado...
ELECTION 2015
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...
The end of an era
At the close of business today, a general store that has become a Boulder institution will shut its doors for the last time...
Boulder-Nablus Sister City project heads back to City Council
The last time the Boulder-Nablus Sister City project brought their plea to create an official Sister City partnership before Boulder City Council, the hearing...
Windows, Walls and Invisible Lines: Araceli Velasquez
When I first met Araceli Velasquez back in July, it was a typical day in sanctuary for her and her three sons — Jorge...
Mo money, mo problems
In just a few weeks, anyone who works at Guardian Storage’s two North Boulder locations — from company employees down to contractors who scrub...
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...
Nothing is guaranteed
Fossil fuel development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is one step closer to becoming a reality as of Nov. 17. With less...
Footing the bill
For years, environmentalists have raised concerns that oil and gas companies were going to leave communities on the hook for the billions of dollars...
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...


















