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The television cameras started to leave after the prayer circle disbanded. One by one — the camera guy with the tiny bulldog of a man reporting; the camera guy of the pretty young reporter with perfect hair; the camera guy who knocked over an elderly woman with a ...
City finds Knollwood Village in violation of fair housing rules
The City of Boulder determined on July 2 that Knollwood Village was in violation of the City’s fair housing rules by enforcing a rule in their covenant that mandated that two or more people could only live in one of the complex’s units if they could prove they were ...
Feds take steps to block GMO labeling
The U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee adopted H.R. 1599 on July 14, which would prohibit labeling of genetically engineered foods and make it illegal for states and municipalities to restrict such foods...
Oil and grouse
Sandra Goodwin, a private landowner from Boulder, Wyoming, has personally seen the effects of oil and gas development on greater sage-grouse populations near her home. When a gravel mine began hauling an average of 350 semi-truck loads a day on the county road in ...
The manufactured fight
Things just got interesting in the battle that is being waged in Boulder between mobile park owners and mobile park tenants. That’s because one of the dogs, maybe the biggest one, in the fight decided to show up...
Double Standard
With the upcoming November election, there has been some controversy surrounding the number of petition signatures required to put a charter amendment on the ballot in the City of Boulder. This is sparked, in part, by two proposed amendments by Livable Boulder, a ...
Two’s company
Outside a small housing development west of Pearl Street is a sign. The sign welcomes visitors and residents to Knollwood Village and outlines a few rules. The Knollwood Village homeowners association erected it several years ago. It’s just a regular old sign, like ...
The state of hate
BW editor Joel Dyer is the author of Harvest of Rage: Why Oklahoma City is only the beginning. His work on the subject of domestic terrorism has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Times Sunday Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Utne Reader and Mother Jones. He ...
The beginning of the end for zero tolerance in schools
Driven by his frustration with New Jersey’s restrictive medical marijuana program, Ricardo Rivera crowd-funded a research trip to Colorado. He wanted more information about extracting cannabis oil for his daughter and a new law that means sick kids can be treated ...
