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Decision time… again
Mary Smith takes a seat with her back to the crowd, some two-dozen people gathered in the third-floor hearing room of the Boulder County...
Good news for immigration activist
Jeanette Vizguerra has been fighting deportation for seven years. But last week she won a significant victory. On Feb. 17 she was granted a...
Biased policing in Boulder
In a time when police departments around the country are being criticized for racial bias, a report by USA Today in Nov. 2014 revealed...
Snowden and the elephant in the room
It was 5 a.m. in Moscow when former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden began his conversation with the more than 2,000 people...
Opposite of America
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” — Emma Lazarus
Four hundred and sixty-two. That’s how many days Mishkat...
Proposed bill aims to strengthen driver’s license program for immigrants
State Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) plans to introduce a bill to the House that will strengthen a thus-far ineffective driver’s license program for immigrant...
Those who wrote education law will benefit most
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is being hailed as a bipartisan reform of education, which gives states the power to determine their own...
Legislation would allow death penalty without unanimous jury vote
Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would remove the need for a unanimous jury decision in death penalty sentencing.
SB 64 would allow a...
The forest is crying
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
The quote is attributed to Crazy Horse in the late 19th century, as he...
Whistleblower John Kiriakou comes to Boulder
It all started with John Kiriakou getting punched in the face — sort of.
It was the late ’80s. Kiriakou (pronounced kir-ee-ah-koo) was 23 and working...
End run: New education law empowers school reformers
In the early 2010s, conservative billionaires from the Koch brothers to Alex Cranberg poured money into local school board elections nationwide in order to...
City of Boulder recommends controversial Nextdoor.com
In what the City calls an effort to increase community engagement, Boulder recently started using the neighborhood social media platform Nextdoor.com to communicate with...
