News
Stripping away illusions
If you go to David Barsamian’s State of the World Address looking for quick solutions to the world’s problems, you’ll be disappointed.
“It’s more like...
27 Years of Activism
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...
Finally, some decisions on the library district
After four years of campaigning and haggling over little details, Boulder City Council on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to form a library district that...
Planting seeds of hope
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...
Denver-based mining company accused of attacking Peruvian farmer
On the morning of Sept. 18, an altercation was reported between private security forces and Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Máxima Acuña on contested land...
To give and to get
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...
‘Until we’re all home’
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...
To drill on Colorado public land, feds will need to assess...
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...
Fighting climate change in the time of Trump
In 2015, dozens of alternative weeklies and other newsmedia outlets, including Boulder Weekly, participated in Letters to the Future, a project published ahead of...
News from around the County and state
Colorado has a new conservation bison herd
While many may know the Centennial State for its mountains, Eastern Colorado is part of the unique ecosystem...
Tracking down the trafficked
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 ...


















