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Day by day, one by one
Three hundred and fifty-nine. That’s how many days Shoeb Iqbal has been free in America. If you’re reading this after Jan. 11, 2018, it’s...
Fight outside Shooters
Boulder police officers responded to a large fight near the Shooters bar at 13th and Walnut streets around closing time in the early-morning hours of Feb. 28...
Niwot fracking protest only the beginning
The local coalition that recently came together to protest the new oil/gas drilling site east of Niwot is not done yet...
Loophole in state law could bypass Longmont’s new oil and gas...
On July 17, Longmont City Council finally took the bold step of passing new oil and gas regulations that are actually stricter than current state laws. The Longmont ordinance requires a minimum of 750-foot setbacks from occupied structures, compared with the state’s ...
On Stump, Biden Focuses Early Attacks on Romney
Joe Biden hit the stump in Ohio on Thursday, making sure to remind autoworkers there about Mitt Romney's opposition to the government bailout of GM and Chrysler...
Deafening Republican Silence on Financial Fraud Task Force
In Republican folklore, President Obama is a sworn enemy of American capitalism. He wants to “put free enterprise on trial” (Mitt Romney); he erroneously thinks that the country’s problems “must be the fault of those people on Wall Street” (Mitch McConnell); he has “...
Cops Crash Campout
Cops Crash CampoutAt approximately 5:45 p.m. on April 28, deputies from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office received a call that seniors from Boulder High School were planning to hold a campout in the mountains west of Boulder. Deputies responded to the area of ...
Gender pay gap improving, but still a problem
March is Women’s History Month, a celebration of female contribution to American history and our contemporary society. It coincides with International Women’s Day, March...
Sinking Ship
When Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, speaks of Colorado’s budgetary woes, he speaks of Band-Aids that can’t stop the bleeding, wounds that are hard to heal and rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. He’s particularly worried about public education...
