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TILE ($25) If you’re one of those people or know one of those people who are always losing keys or the remote or pretty much anything else, help is on the way. Tile is a small device that you can hang on a key chain or stick to pretty much anything else. Tile has a ...
DACA provides lifeline for young immigrants even as Republicans threaten to...
Venancio Noya moved to Colorado from Veracruz, Mexico when he was 5 years old with his parents and only younger brother at that time. Born with Spina Bifida, or an incomplete closure of the spinal column, Noya and his family came to the U.S. to seek better medical ...
Censored: Ten big stories the news media ignored
In 1976, when Carl Jensen, a professor at California’s Sonoma State University, started looking into news-media self-censorship, nobody had ever dreamed of the Internet. Most computers were still big mainframes with whirling tape reels; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ...
Major diversion
There was an effort by half of the state’s Water Resources Review Committee last week to approve two bills that would have taken the permitting process for new dams and reservoirs away from federal and state regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection ...
Veterans helping veterans… sometimes
It was an unseasonably warm October afternoon when Richard Connelly stood on the porch at 600 Terry St. in Longmont chatting with other veterans about the news — Veterans Helping Veterans Now (VHVN) would be closing by week’s end...
Cynicism confirmed
Stew and Christine Nyholm have lived in the Wadley Farms neighborhood north of Denver for close to 30 years, raising five children in the same house. The couple enjoys the quiet neighborhood and ample space it provides. “We’re a small enclave of a little tiny piece ...
BVSD among 40 Colorado jurisdictions putting broadband on the ballot
If ballot question 3A passes, Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) would attempt to earn revenue and expand Internet access. Thanks to a state law passed in 2005 (SB-152), which restricts local governments from competing with broadband providers, BVSD must get ...
Cutting through the noise
The number of protesters planning to show up to CNBC’s GOP presidential debate at the University of Colorado Boulder on Wednesday, Oct. 28 meant that activist groups had to find a way to stand out from the crowd to get their messages heard. One way to do that is with...
Looking for home
All the first tiny home villages required civil disobedience,” says Marcus Hyde of Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL), a group of both advocates and people experiencing homelessness working in the Denver area. On Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 members of the group were arrested ...
Misdirection
Pam Howard is a member of the Thompson School District Board of Education. It’s a district that spans Larimer and Boulder Counties; from Estes Park to Berthoud to Loveland. Her kids went to Thompson’s public schools, with her youngest just heading off to Princeton ...
The case for public accountability
Jessica Ernst won’t back down and she won’t settle. And for that, the Canadian has drawn international attention for her ongoing multimillion dollar lawsuit against oil and gas company Encana for its alleged gross negligence while fracking natural gas reserves near ...
The law that no one loved
On Oct. 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay for the Clean Water Rule, which seeks to clarify protection of the country’s streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act. The stay halts implementation of the regulation, also known as the ...