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Not a moment, a movement
You could have heard a pin drop. At 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, March 14, nearly every student at Fairview High School walked out of...
Terrifying telecom tale
In a local example of what the Occupy Wall Street movement is railing about, big telecommunications companies are once again pouring cash into a campaign to defeat a measure that would allow Longmont to use its own fiber-optic network...
Flood maps, models inherently flawed
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
All you need is love – and a truck
Imagine if someone launched a movement that was not about money, religion or politics — an effort that was simply based on the idea of spreading love from one person to another...
Conference on World Affairs preview
The 68th annual Conference on World Affairs hits Boulder on April 4 and runs through April 8. Yes, that Conference on World Affairs, the...
A kernel of progress emerges from the local GMO debate
Dried beans are not the sexiest food to be found at the farmers market. (It’s chard, actually.) But the humble bean is at the...
Mining in space
The reason the dinosaurs are no longer around,” Chris Lewicki recently told a conference on extra-terrestrial mining, “is that they didn’t have a space program...
New book challenges the status quo
When an Oakland warehouse-turned-artists-collective known as the Ghost Ship exploded in flames in December 2016, it took the lives of 36 people, drawing both...
Facebook Scoops Up Face.com For ~$100M To Bolster Its Facial Recognition...
After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com...
WHY IS YOUR BALLOT YELLING AT YOU?
YOUR BALLOT WILL BE ARRIVING IN THE MAIL SOON, AND YOU MAY NOTICE THAT A HANDFUL OF ISSUES ARE WRITTEN LIKE THIS — IN...
‘Find a way’
Annie Montelione is driving with her head out of the window. The black air billowing outside means she can’t see through the windshield of...
Matt Jones announces bid for Boulder County Commissioner
With more than a year until the November 2018 election, State Senator Matt Jones announced his intention to run for Boulder County Commissioner in...
