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With few proven options, Boulder looks for path to online petition...
Last November, City of Boulder voters approved a measure by a nearly 3-to-1 margin to allow electronic and online signature-gathering for future ballot initiative,...
The silenced
From weakening vehicle emissions to blocking warnings about how coastal parks could flood or the impact on the Arctic, the Trump administration is accused...
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...
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...
Boulder shows solidarity with Dakota Access pipeline protesters
On Tuesday Sept. 13 and 14, more than 200 separate protests were held across the country against the Dakota Access pipeline.
The protests, three of...
How the media covers mass shootings has evolved. But is it...
From the moment it happened, the shooting at King Soopers in South Boulder dominated the national news cycle for almost two days. Within minutes...
‘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...
America no more
At 2 a.m. on the morning of his 18th birthday, Carlos was transferred into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and brought to the...
A lesson from Borderland
First a crackle, then a woman’s voice over the radio: “I’ve got eight under 12 zone six.” It’s been a few years now, but...
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...
Don’t fret when the bed bugs bite
It took DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), the “atomic bomb of pesticides,” to reduce infestations in this country to a level that a couple of generations have grown up not quite knowing what “Don’t let the bed bugs bite” means...


















