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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 ...

Should Colorado teachers bear arms?

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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

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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...

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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...

From scandal to scrutiny

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How intense citizen oversight reshaped Oakland police.

Helping themselves

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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...