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Local web developers link refugees to donors

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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,...

Dumpster-diving for the poor

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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 ...

Is city’s municipalization plan the next ghost at Valmont Butte?

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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...

States are buying hotels to provide short and long-term housing for...

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The climate crisis is already exacerbating the housing crisis. Last year, wildfires burned and damaged about 17,700 structures in the US. It was one of...

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...

Hate in Trump world

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When Jeanette Vizguerra entered sanctuary in a Denver church in early 2017, she thought she might have to stay for four years, the entirety...

Secrets in the paint

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Our story begins on a smoky London morning, just after the turn of the 20th century, when Claude Monet sat in a room at the Hotel Savoy on the banks of the River Thames, his oil paints and a few in-progress canvases within reach. He was working to capture the way ...

What a difference 25 years makes for some Boulder County businesses

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For many in the media business, it was a very different world back in 1993 when Boulder Weekly printed its first edition. That’s an...

What do you do with all that leftover Halloween candy?

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Like many people, you may find yourself in early November...

Montana-based org. pours cash into conservative coffers in Longmont City Council...

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A regional right-wing advocacy group with connections to Republican political powers in Colorado has taken a keen interest in a hotly contested Longmont City Council race...

Under the skin

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The press release was innocuous enough, on its face, like so many others sent by the university about comings and goings within the administration. However, as is probably true with many other resignations, there is a story behind this one that goes beyond the glib...

People of the year: Longmont anti-fracking citizens’ group Our Longmont

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OUR HEALTH, OUR FUTURE, OUR LONGMONT...