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Fighting climate change in the time of Trump

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In 2015, dozens of alternative weeklies and other newsmedia outlets, including Boulder Weekly, participated in Letters to the Future, a project published ahead of...

27 Years of Activism

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In the late 1970s, a group of protesters blocked the railroad tracks at Rocky Flats in an attempt to keep trains from delivering nuclear bomb-making supplies to the plant...

Amid slow economic recovery, Boulder set to pilot UBI; in the...

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Guaranteed income by another name? The city is moving forward with plans to give cash to low-income Boulderites, though how much, to whom and for...

‘Until we’re all home’

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It’s a clear Friday evening in Lyons — the first day of this year’s Rocky Mountain Folks Festival — and a silver-bearded man in...

Tracking down the trafficked

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In 2012, the FBI recovered 49 girls who were victims of sex trafficking in Denver. Some were runaways from broken homes, homes with a history of child abuse. Some may have been in and out of state care, including juvenile detention facilities, and had already been ...

To drill on Colorado public land, feds will need to assess...

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About 150,000 acres of public land in Colorado and Utah previously pegged to be leased for oil and gas operations will need to undergo...

Denver-based mining company accused of attacking Peruvian farmer

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On the morning of Sept. 18, an altercation was reported between private security forces and Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Máxima Acuña on contested land...

Planting seeds of hope

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For weeks during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, in late 2004, Andriy Zakutayev lived in a tent in Kyiv, in solidarity with thousands of citizens in...

Little fires everywhere, outdoor dining here to stay

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Tourists, residents and workers loved Boulder’s pandemic-prompted proliferation of al fresco dining. That’s according to a survey of 836 people from earlier this year...

Activists sound alarm over oil waste pit in Lafayette

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In February 1984, a woman living in the Lafayette area called police to report that her cat had fallen into an oil sludge pit...

The chair and the camera

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They call it “the chair...

To give and to get 

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There are few places Jeff Blumenfeld hasn’t been.   He’s traveled to the farthest reaches of the world, from Antarctica to the easternmost town in...