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Thousands of Boulder County kids face losing health insurance
If Congress does nothing, which it very well might, 3,500 low-income children and pregnant women in Boulder County will lose their health insurance on...
Those who wrote education law will benefit most
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is being hailed as a bipartisan reform of education, which gives states the power to determine their own...
Citizen lobbyists push for national carbon tax
On Thursday June 21, 800 volunteer lobbyists, including 11 people from Boulder, spent all day on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. asking their elected...
The curation of discovery: Part 3
This week’s serialized installment of “The curation of discovery” deals with not only the discovery and curation of the Mahaffy Cache, a collection of...
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...
National dialogue on Charlottesville and where we go from here
The racial tensions and violence on display in Charlottesville, Virginia, recently were neither the beginning nor the end of an ugly chapter in American...
The science behind the hype
To understand RNA, you have to understand DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, those double-sided spring-like chains of genetic information that determine the color of a human’s hair or the hue of a flower’s petals. If DNA acts as a blueprint for living things, then RNA is ...
‘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...
Still lost in limbo
When Olympic athlete and Native American football legend Jim Thorpe died in 1953, there wasn’t money in his bank account to send his body back to his native state of Oklahoma, where he wanted to be buried. He didn’t have his Olympic medals for the decathlon and ...
Body art battle
Enchanted Ink, a tattoo and piercing studio on Pearl Street, was open for appointments only on Wednesday, Aug. 25, the last time the Boulder County Public Health inspector stopped by...
Boulder’s University Hill faces ban on booze
Correction: The Rib House was not the restaurant referred to in this story that had applied for later hours on the Hill. Merry Ann Webb, co-founder of The Rib House, says, "The Rib House family is owned and operated and is very happy to have the hours that we have. I...
Now you know: May 11, 2023
New pickleball facility opening in Boulder
When Scott Fliegelman started Boulder Pickleball nearly four years ago, he wasn’t exactly sure what it would turn into.
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