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CU conducts survey on football stadium upgrades
It’s been less than a decade since the University of Colorado Boulder erected a controversial and costly expansion of its football stadium, but despite being in debt with the campus and president’s office, the athletics department is conducting a survey about what ...
‘Relief holder’ may be the biggest problem of all at former...
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Trade war bounty
Tariffs on U.S. goods have skyrocketed in the past year as the Trump administration has engaged in an escalating trade war with China. According...
Building community
Bart Wear is in the construction business. He helps school groups, churches, businesses and other organizations turn shipping containers into classrooms, clinics, dental offices...
Fracking lessons
The water in the town of Pavillion, Wyo., has not been contaminated by the fracking that is taking place a few miles east of town...
114 studies on flipped classrooms show small payoff for big effort
In a flipped classroom, students watch video lectures before class and use class time to work on assignments and group projects. It’s “flipped” because...
Redesigning the system
As a species, humans buy into trending ideas regularly — sometimes for our benefit but equally often to our detriment; just think about diet...
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Major fish kill on the Poudre
Dozens of dead fish have been found along the banks of the Poudre River in Fort Collins, in what...
An exclusive Q&A with Occupy movement founder Kalle Lasn
With winter arriving and crackdowns on protests across the country becoming more aggressive, the Occupy movement has reached a crossroads...
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 ...
One man’s rocky journey chasing down a dream
He removes his cap; fingers brush past his left ear and instinctively find the scar at the base of his skull. It’s much smaller now, about the size of a half-dollar coin, and much more manageable. There are other scars: two incisions along the base of his neck, and ...

















