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Stripped of dignity
Being strip-searched has long been a part of incarceration. But inmates at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility (DWCF) say a change in their strip-search procedure subjects them to undue humiliation and leaves some of them traumatized, particularly those with a ...
The controversy surrounding CU South explained
Around 7 p.m. on the evening of Sept. 12, 2013, Marki LeCompte left her mother’s apartment at the Frasier retirement community, driving the block...
Where’d that place go?
Twenty years ago, Boulder Weekly did a story about a rash of business closures including a number of well-liked, locally owned shops and eateries. The Pearl Street Mall was particularly hit hard back in 1994-95 as many long-term leases were expiring around the same ...
The great divorce: The People of Colorado v. the State
When I was a boy, my dad took me and my twin sister and brothers to see the demolition of the Omaha-Grant Smoke Stack...
Buried in the past?
Tossing 20 coins in the air and all of them coming up heads. Getting struck by lightning this year. Making it as a movie...
Is the way the state handles oil & gas complaints criminal?
When two Colorado-based green criminologists turned to examine the heated local issue of oil and gas development with their area of focus in mind — not what is a crime, but what should be considered a crime — they found a pattern among the response received by the ...
Advocates call for mass release at the Aurora detention facility due...
When Hilda talked to her husband, Ivan, on Tuesday, March 31, he had been in a quarantine pod for about a week inside the...
The inside story of how Boulder and Xcel reached a settlement
After Boulder voters approved Ballot Issue 2C tin November 2020, which entered Boulder and Xcel Energy into a 20-year franchise agreement and paused the...
How Reagan and the largest EPA scandal in history may explain...
When examining the stacks of records concerning Valmont Butte and its long history of contamination, you never know what specter is going to come floating from the pages. This week we take a look at the impact that President Ronald Reagan and his controversial ...
Struggle of the Sacred Tribe
Charged and arrested for felony possession, Denver’s mushroom rabbi’s case could change precedents for religious practice in Colorado
With HOA costs surpassing their mortgage payments, owners of affordable housing...
When Adam Perry got home one afternoon in August, he had a notice on the door from his homeowners’ association (HOA) announcing the roofs...
ELECTION 2014 VOTE GUIDE
It’s that time again … time to exercise our greatest privilege and responsibility as citizens by voting. As has become the norm, we have Democratic, Republican, Independent, Green Party and Libertarian candidates on the ballot, along with a host of important ...
