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‘To our community and beyond’
Boulder Valley Clinic served nine patients on its opening day, Nov. 1, 1973, just nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion...
City to spend $4 million cleaning up teahouse property
The City of Boulder is planning to shell out $4 million to clean up the environmental contamination left by the gas plant that operated for decades on the property that is now home to the Dushanbe Teahouse and 13th Street Plaza...
Farmers’ suit against Monsanto reaches Supreme Court
It’s been nearly three years since the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA), along with a few of its friends and peers, filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against agriculture giant Monsanto in federal district court...
‘Every barrier imaginable’
"e were the first here… I live a stone’s throw away from where my great grandfather was born in a wigwam,” Stephanie Thompson, a...
Anatomy of a mistake
The circumstances surrounding the city of Boulder’s purchase of Valmont Butte are suspect, at best. At worst, fraudulent...
Hate in Trump world
When Jeanette Vizguerra entered sanctuary in a Denver church in early 2017, she thought she might have to stay for four years, the entirety...
Is city’s municipalization plan the next ghost at Valmont Butte?
When Boulder voters narrowly voted in favor of the 2011 measure to authorize the study and possible approval of a municipal utility, city leaders may not have realized some of the extra costs their grandchildren — if not great-grandchildren — might be inheriting...
Helping themselves
The City of Boulder and Boulder County have offered some level of emergency preparedness training for many years. But the classes don’t necessarily have...
Dumpster-diving for the poor
Every year, the U.S. produces about 34 million tons of food waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But are local businesses in Boulder, a county that has the goal of producing “zero waste — or darn near” by 2025, really taking the steps needed to ...
Local web developers link refugees to donors
Farah is a 5-year-old girl who has been living in a Syrian refugee camp with her widowed mother and eight siblings since early 2016,...
After hundreds of meatpacking workers died from COVID-19, Congress wants answers
Editor’s note: JBS operates a beef processing facility in Greeley, which is currently under investigation for a November 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. According to Colorado...
Colorado lawmakers consider reforms to the way family courts handle abuse...
This story was originally published by ProPublica.
Colorado lawmakers are considering two bills that would reform the way family courts in the state handle cases...
