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Secrets in the paint
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 ...
Should Colorado teachers bear arms?
Last summer, 17 Colorado teachers met at the Weld County Sheriff’s Department shooting range to take part in a three-day firearm training course. They...
A seat at the table
Each fall, for the past 11 years, Spanish-speaking women from around Boulder County and the region have gathered at the University of Colorado for...
States are buying hotels to provide short and long-term housing for...
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...
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...
Boulder-based organization lends a helping hand
Living in what some refer to as the Boulder bubble, it’s sometimes easy to tune out the surrounding world and bathe in the beauty of this olivesized oasis. Conscious Alliance, a Boulder-based nonprofit, is trying to minimize that mentality...
‘A lot of good we can do together’
Dr. Emmy Betz can’t overemphasize the impact the lack of funding for firearm violence injury prevention research has had. A decade ago, when she...
City responses to Valmont concerns follow familiar pattern
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.” — Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death, 1983 Sometimes, history repeats itself...
Redefining grief
Dr. Jennifer Matheson knew immediately when the COVID-19 pandemic hit that feelings of anxiety, fear and loneliness would explode.
“The fact that social isolating and...
News roundup: Boulder City Council and other news
Boulder City Council votes against online petition signature gathering
At its virtual meeting on Tuesday, April 21, Boulder City Council voted against an emergency order...
It takes a village
There’s no manual for raising children, the old adage goes, but they also say it takes a village. But who do parents turn to...


















