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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 ...
Development and disasters
The consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied.
Indeed, the economic costs — which will include everything from...
Status of backlogged drilling permits still in question
A regularly scheduled hearing of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) on Oct. 29, quickly turned into a public debate over Proposition 112,...
News Roundup: Automatic Voter Registration, COVID-19 case at Aurora detention center...
Updated Automatic Voter Registration hits Colorado
The Colorado Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) system passed by lawmakers in 2019 is now live statewide. Under the new...
Critics call out Garnett after pro-camping ban comments
The City of Boulder’s camping ban has been controversial since its inception. Proponents argue it’s necessary for public safety, while critics say it unnecessarily...
Coloradans rally around immigrant parents seeking reunification with their children
On Monday, July 23, attorney Laura Lunn with the Rocky Mountain Immigration Advocacy Network (RMIAN) went to immigration court at the Denver Contract Detention...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
Enemy of the people
Editor’s note: When Aaron Cantú arrived at his new job at the Santa Fe Reporter last year, he came with the baggage of a...
Transparency trouble
The city of Boulder seems to have joined a growing number of government agencies in Colorado that have started charging more for — and taking more time to produce — public documents when faced with open records requests...
