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Conservation groups claim public comments went missing during BLM process
It’s no secret the Trump Administration is prioritizing energy development on public lands. But across the West, these policies are conflicting with Obama-era habitat...
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...
Rep. John Lewis on freedom riders getting beaten by the KKK
Boulder Weekly spoke with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) about the Civil Rights Movement, the Freedom Rides, and parallels between the struggle for racial equality and the struggle to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation. Lewis will speak about the new ...
Boulder homeless turned away at Red Cross shelter
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
Searching for a road home
Tucked back into the corner of a dimly lit kitchen, two boys giggle, then burst out into uncontrollable laughter. The bulb that sits atop a long, skinny floor lamp — the sole source of light for the Sigg-Brown family kitchen — is loose. The two boys, Isaiah and Malik...
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...
Time traveling outhouse style
When Rebecca Schwendler found her dream home in Lafayette, it’s safe to say that her eye for detail went well beyond that of the average homebuyer. It wasn’t just the porch or kitchen or period woodwork in the Victorian-era home that drew her to the closing table. It...
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...
Preaching to the choir
Scrolling through the staff page on 350.org, a global grassroots organization dedicated to preventing climate change, it can be hard to spot founder Bill...
Project Censored
In America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and...
ClimateStupid?
When the county’s ClimateSmart loan program was suspended last year, it left hundreds of local homeowners holding the bag — a bag they now need to fill with money...
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...
