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Alcoholics Anonymous struggles to stay relevant as secular programs gain momentum
On Wednesday nights, the basement of Boulder’s Pine Street Church fills to capacity for the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) open meeting. Facilitators lead the group...
COGCC budget in peril
You’ve seen the commercials: Good-looking people in vests and their good-looking dogs walking by crystal clear mountain streams, a burly voiceover saying something like,...
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...
Trump nixes protections on several Western national monuments
On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump announced in Utah that the two-million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be cut in half, and Bears Ears...
DHS terminates protective status for Haitians. Who’s next?
On Nov. 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 50,000 Haitian immigrants, effective July 2019....
CU study links wastewater injections to earthquakes despite lack of cooperation...
In 2011, the town of Trinidad quivered from the seismic waves of a 5.3-magnitude earthquake. Located just 15 miles north of the quake’s epicenter...
Thousands of Boulder County kids face losing health insurance
If Congress does nothing, which it very well might, 3,500 low-income children and pregnant women in Boulder County will lose their health insurance on...
Mobile home owners seek to form statewide HOA
More than 93,000 families in Colorado rely on the affordability that living in a manufactured (or mobile) home community provides. But for many of...
For Native Americans, fighting diabetes means fighting the federal government for...
Theresa Halsey, a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe and producer of the Indian Voices radio show on KGNU, has been dealing with diabetes...
Prying open the third eye
This summer, Cameron McArthur sat in a clinic in Denver, an infusion pump slowly introducing ketamine to his bloodstream. As the drug worked its...
Off Target 10: Is dividing by five hiding the real culprit?
On Nov. 6, 2017, WildEarth Guardians (WEG) and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to a hold on their lawsuit against the USDA-Wildlife...
Oil and gas emissions help push Front Range ozone levels over...
On any given day, emissions from oil and gas activity in Colorado can make a big enough contribution to ground-level ozone levels that it...
