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Time traveling outhouse style

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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...

BW Editor Pamela White gets lifetime achievement award

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Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White has received one of the top honors given by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), a lifetime achievement award called “Keeper of the Flame...

Prosecutors seek death penalty of James Holmes in Aurora theater shooting

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Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler has told the court that he wants to pursue the death penalty against James Holmes, the man accused of shooting 70 people in a theater in Aurora, Colo. last year...

Our road to recovery: Complete coverage of 2013 Boulder County floods

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See below for Boulder Weekly's complete coverage of flooding across Boulder County...

DHS terminates protective status for Haitians. Who’s next?

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On Nov. 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it’s terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 50,000 Haitian immigrants, effective July 2019....

GMO sugar beets get the green light

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ruled once and for all...

Landlord crackdown

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The City of Boulder has ramped up its enforcement of the city’s rental licensing code, targeting property owners who are illegally leasing units to renters...

The latest climate report includes a new focus on pregnant people....

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Originally published by The 19th Last June, over a period of three days, a heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures soared to 117 degrees...

Film questions the practice of circumcision

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Surgical tools carefully arranged on a table, a screaming baby in a white gown and men singing a blessing. This is a scene in Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon’s documentary Cut: Slicing through the Myths of Circumcision, which will be playing at the Boulder Jewish Community ...

CU professors discuss what the SCOTUS decision on affirmative action means...

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The Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious affirmative action policies at U.S. colleges with its June 29 decision in Harvard v. Students for Fair Admissions....

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...

New book challenges the status quo

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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...