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


















