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Big wins for gun control, but business as usual for unhoused...

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Boulder’s $3M plan to remove homeless camp (still) not working One year after approving $2.86 million in new spending for cops, park rangers and a...

Victor’s new heart

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Ever since Victor was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure in 2005, he’s been waiting for a new heart. In early August, he...

The sunk cost of blood and treasure

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Greg Young is a professor of political science at CU Boulder and a veteran of the U.S. Navy. As a teenager in turkey, where...

Terrifying telecom tale

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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...

News in brief

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Draft CU South annexation agreement released  On Monday, July 12, the City of Boulder and University of Colorado released a draft annexation agreement regarding 308...

Get it fresh, get it local

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Eleven farms, agricultural producers and non-profit organizations are receiving grants from Boulder County to catalyze regenerative practices, education, market infrastructure and more.  The County announced...

Right to Rest Act, take four

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For the fourth year in a row, Colorado lawmakers are considering the Right to Rest Act, a piece of legislation aimed at local policies...

From deliverance to damnation

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When his silver Pontiac plunged into a river during last September’s floods, Roy Ortiz could not have known the quiet life he had built for his family in Broomfield would soon disappear...

A win-win for everybody

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A few days after videos of dogs attacking protesters at a North Dakota site of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) went viral in early September,...

Goodbye, environmental protections

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It’s almost summer, which means those of us who live along the Front Range ought to prepare for high ozone days. On May 28, the...

The biggest non-coronavirus stories from the last month

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Amid constant coronavirus coverage in the media, it may seem like nothing else is going one. That is, of course, not the case. We...

SROs and racism

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Will Betke-Brunswick makes comics that blend the do-it-yourself aesthetic of a zine with the punchy-one-liner vibe of a New Yorker comic. “I like to make...