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More than corporate pawns
Ben Cohen is on a mission. Since 2013, the Ben & Jerry’s co-founder has been at the forefront of a national money-stamping campaign to...
Dodging a bullet… for now
In November 2016, Jose (a pseudonym) found himself at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract detention facility in Aurora. He had been living...
Sanctuary 360
“If you’ve come here to help me, you’re wasting your time. But if you come because your liberation is bound up with mine,...
Colorado Senate set to kill conversion therapy ban… again
A few weeks ago, Silas Musick went to the Colorado State Capitol and testified in support of a bill to ban conversion therapy, a discredited...
Gun control
Here’s the good news: America, overall, is a much less violent place than it used to be. Our reported violent-crime rate is almost half...
Here’s to 70 more
We don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the Conference on World Affairs is much more than a conference. Over the course of...
Lowering the bar
Last November, Colorado voters passed Amendment 71, a controversial constitutional amendment aimed at making it more difficult for citizens to amend the state constitution....
Something fishy’s going on at Valmont Reservoir
Hudson, a 1,500-person pit-stop town about 30 miles east of Boulder, has a small community fishing pond. On a recent Saturday morning, about two...
Paula Oransky never dreamed she could be fired for protesting against...
It was without question the best job Paula Oransky had ever had. The Colorado School of Mines graduate was making six figures, had a...
Anti-democracy
Cambridge Analytica (CA) is a political consulting firm that has been making a lot of headlines of late. The company is accused of illegally...
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...
Turning anguish into action
On the one-month anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, almost 1 million students from kindergarten to 12th grade participated in more than 3,000...
