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Watchdog group says telecoms let FBI view Americans’ phone records
WASHINGTON — For years, FBI agents and employees of telecom companies treated Americans' telephone records so cavalierly that one senior FBI...
Ethics panel accuses S.C. governor of 37 violations
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Ethics Commission has...
What will happen to Boulder’s 2020 citizen initiatives?
The steed of Susan B. Anthony’s democracy was a steel single-speed. For Chelsea Castellano, it’s an e-bike. One Monday in June, she pedals around...
Federal judge orders ORR and ICE to release minors with ‘greater...
Before the summer of 2018, most Americans had never heard of the Flores settlement or about the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and its...
Could Superweeds Mean the End of Genetically Engineered Crops?
Forget the lowly dandelion. There’s a bigger menace threatening the American landscape: “superweeds,” agricultural...
Boulder passed its first racial equity plan. Will it work?
The City of Boulder’s racial equity plan is no panacea, according to its critics and supporters alike. Passed unanimously by City Council on Feb....
Diesel Beats Gas in Air Pollution Measure
Diesel fuel has a bad environmental reputation, but the "dirtier" gas...
Proposition 103 (tax measure for education funding)
No state tax increase. That's what Colorado voters seemed to be saying on election night.Proposition 103, the only statewide measure on the 2011 coordinated election ballot, seems headed to defeat. With 98 percent of precincts reporting as of press time Tuesday night...
Buying Sustainable Fish Is Getting Easier, But It’s Still Hard
This week, Whole Foods, the upscale grocer, said...
Police arrest CU students in burglary, assault
Police arrested two 21-year-old University of Colorado students, Quinton Elgin Dodson and Aaron Jaron Whitaker, on suspicion of burglary and assault charges stemming from an incident on April 8. According to police, on that date, a 21-year old man interrupted two ...
Washington State Moves to Legalize Gay Marriage
The state Senate in Washington passed a bill on Wednesday night that puts the Evergreen State on a course to becoming the seventh state in the country to legalize gay marriage...
