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Fracking ban court decision pushes conversation toward constitutional rights
The lawsuit to defend Longmont’s voterapproved fracking ban is moving on from the district court, where a judge issued a summary judgment against it, but a stay against fracking in Longmont while the case is appealed to a higher court. It may become increasingly ...
Rising from the ashes
For some victims of the Fourmile Fire that ravaged the hills of western Boulder County the week of Sept. 6, 2010, this has been the “year of the phoenix...
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 ...
The great equalizer
As a student in the late 1980s, Carlota Loya-Hernandez hated history. She found it irrelevant and boring. Born in Mexico, her parents moved to...
County 1A, 1B squeak by
With all but provisional ballots counted, county voters appear to have passed two new tax measures — one a mill levy increase to benefit human services, the other a sales-and-use tax to be used for open space purchases. The open-space issue, County Ballot Issue 1B, ...
Biased policing in Boulder
In a time when police departments around the country are being criticized for racial bias, a report by USA Today in Nov. 2014 revealed...
News Briefs: Feb. 16, 2023
Boulder County District Attorney’s Office releases in-depth disparity analysis
The Boulder County District Attorney’s (DA) Office, in collaboration with Prosecutor Performance Indicators (PPI), the Colorado...
Small businesses, big impacts
Microplastics are everywhere. The small bits of plastic — anywhere from about the size of a sesame seed to a tenth of the size of...
Deconstructing gender
On March 10, the TRANSforming Gender Conference will begin its 10th year highlighting the diversity of gender and addressing equality, support, visibility and scholarship...
A rallying cry
Laurel Eckhouse’s grandmother almost didn’t make it to the U.S. Born in 1920, she fled Nazi Germany for London in 1933 as a Jewish...
Alone on the moon
It was as though he had walked on the moon, and spent the rest of his life looking up in the sky, knowing he could never get back there. Chet Carman was a 17-year-old teenager from Colorado Springs, shuttling between separated parents and an older brother. In 1964, ...
Crossing the threshold
Just outside of the main entrance to the United Nations General Assembly building in New York City stand a number of large sculptures. Most...
