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City codes and art strike a balance
Stone-balancing artist Michael Grab, who’s impromptu sculptures are known to frequent Boulder Creek, was stopped during the Boulder Creek Festival by a Boulder police officer who told him he couldn’t balance rocks in the creek, citing two Boulder City Codes, one ...
Gov. Hickenlooper signs medical marijuana ‘crackdown’ bill into law
On Monday, May 18, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a bill that lawmakers claim will strengthen the state’s medical marijuana laws and weed out folks who illegally use and sell untaxed pot...
‘Boulder Weekly’ wins 30 awards from Society of Professional Journalists
Boulder Weekly won 11 first place awards and 19 other honors for stories written in 2014 in the annual multi-state Top of the Rockies contest held by the Society of Professional Journalists. Results for the competition, which takes entries from news media in Colorado...
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center to recognize the still unsolved...
On Friday, May 22, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) will join other cities around the nation in commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1990 pipe bomb attack on environmental activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney in Oakland, Calif...
With the passage of HB 1057, have Democrats once again killed...
On Aug. 4, 2014, more than a quarter of a million signatures belonging to Colorado voters were on their way to the Secretary of State’s office for the purpose of putting two citizens-initiatives that would potentially amend the state’s constitution on the November ...
Environmental groups file objection over Eldora expansion, may pursue legal action
Middle Boulder Creek Coalition and Sierra Club Indian Peaks Group have filed an objection to the Eldora Mountain Resort expansion that could land in court, if the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t significantly revise its Draft Record of Decision allowing the resort to ...
New answers to development questions emerge
There are petitions circling in Boulder right now that, if they get enough signatures, will put on the November ballot two initiatives that amend the city charter and change the way we handle future development in the city...
Caring for Kumari
Randy Baker hasn’t gotten a lot of sleep since April 25, but as he’s discovered, that’s what happens when there’s an earthquake in Nepal and you run a nonprofit organization...
Over-terrained?
If Eldora Mountain Resort’s expansion moves forward, it’ll be at the objections of local business owners and residents, who have congealed in the citizens’ group Middle Boulder Creek Coalition and been joined by the Indian Peaks Group of the Sierra Club, as well as ...
