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5th Annual Essay Issue
Boulder Weekly has a tradition: The editorial staff at BW uses the last issue of every year to write a personal essay. These personal...
CU’s professor of the year traveled a rocky academic road
A University of Colorado faculty member who got one of the nation’s top teaching honors this week was nearly turned down when he came up for tenure a dozen years ago...
Dan Eamon, Longmont emergency manager
Dan Eamon, Longmont’s emergency manager, was one of the first people mentioned when BW asked about the people who played a crucial role in that city’s flood response...
THE POLITICS OF DEATH:
The truth is, none of us really want to have to care about who becomes the next county coroner. If you care, it’s likely because you’ve been on the living side of a sudden and unexpected death, the kind of death the coroner’s office is called in to document and ...
‘Don’t tell them there’s nothing wrong’
Hydrogen sulfide may not be the heart of the problem at Casey Middle School, says Dr. Sander Orent, medical director of Arbor Occupational Medicine and the workman’s compensation doctor who has treated the teachers who believe they have health effects from working in...
Federal Government To Pay Indian Tribes $1 Billion Over Mismanagement
The U.S. government will pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits...
Boulder County AIDS Project three times as effective at stopping HIV
In 2008, Hurricane Ike ripped through Houston, Texas, destroying thousands of homes and businesses in Harris County, including the orthopedic implant sales company Campbell Hayden ran alongside his long-time partner Hugh Gouthro. Unable to pick up the pieces, Hayden ...
Now you know: May 25, 2023
New law aims to reduce composting confusion
Gov. Polis signed a bill (SB23-253) on May 17 that sets standards on products represented as compostable to...
All aboard
A four-star U.S. officer walks onto an electric school bus. But besides the familiar black and yellow exterior of the vehicle, this isn’t a typical...
An interview with the interviewer
Ron Bostwick, the Boulder International Film Festival’s executive producer of special events, grew up in Maryland and then lived in Boston, where he went to college, for about 20 years. But he’s been living in Boulder for about a dozen years now and can’t imagine ...
Market share chemical warfare
Last summer, June 17 to be exact, one of the volunteers on Margot McMillen’s organic farm in Auxvasse, Missouri noticed something funny about the grapes...
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 ...
