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Behind closed doors
A recording made during a 2015 meeting of oil and gas industry representatives and state regulators has surfaced. We believe the information from this...
Aurora grandfather fights deportation while family hangs in the balance
Valeria Martinez is losing her dad for the third time. She watched in disbelief as the immigration judge ordered Martin Alvarez Martinez deported again....
Initiatives canvassers report harassment
Canvassers collecting signatures to guarantee two initiatives impacting oil and gas regulations make it on the November ballot claim they have been harassed while...
Rocking to stop the TPP
"The responsibility of the artist in troubled times... is to tell the truth as we see it,” — Tom Morello
As the legendary guitarist for...
Seven climate experts and visionaries set to converge on Macky to...
When seven leading climate experts and conservation visionaries gather at Macky Auditorium on July 25, the ensuing discussion will be 30 years in the...
Lessons from a civil rights activist
Sekou Kambui, also known as William Turk, is no stranger to the long history of racial prejudice and inequality in the U.S. — tensions...
Apocolypse Now on the Mekong River
Smoke hangs heavy in the air over the Mekong River in northern Thailand. Dawn is breaking over the village of Chiang Khong and with...
Fire blazes through Nederland, neighbors open doors
Living in a mountain town means accepting the threat of fire and flood, and in the past few years the small town of Nederland...
Citizen lobbyists push for national carbon tax
On Thursday June 21, 800 volunteer lobbyists, including 11 people from Boulder, spent all day on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. asking their elected...
Environmental groups push back against the TPP
Recently, 450 U.S. environmental groups sent Congress a strong message: Vote down the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest proposed trade deal since 1994’s North...
Local benefit concert supports effort to return the Black Hills to...
In 1868, the U.S. government, representing all of us, signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie with native peoples including the Oglala, Brule and Miniconjou...
Back to the future
Lately, I have found myself haunted by a particular conversation I had with historian Howard Zinn some two decades ago. And I’ve been feeling...
