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The pipeline to Mexico
Between 2019 and 2020 Boulder and the surrounding areas were hit by a spree of bike shop smash and grab burglaries (see “Cycles of...
One of Colorado’s most isolated, rural hospitals faces coronavirus
On Colorado’s Eastern plains, there is one hospital on the I-70 corridor between Denver International Airport and the Kansas border: Lincoln Community Hospital in...
Boulder Weekly’s 2022 Endorsements
FEDERAL OFFICES
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Michael Bennet
REP — DISTRICT 2
Joe Neguse
STATE OFFICES
SECRETARY OF STATE
Jena Griswold
STATE TREASURER
Dave Young
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Phil Weiser
BOARD OF EDUCATION — AT LARGE
Kathy Plomer
SENATOR —...
The great experiment—Can resident-owned mobile home parks save manufactured housing communities?
The Sans Souci Community is something of a manufactured housing success story, at least so far. In late June, the residents of the nearly-11-acre...
Locals recall Pioneer Inn’s wild days as it turns 40
"People would just start shaking, and the room would go quiet,” a man known as “Cajun” Dave Harbour says of those long-ago Friday nights when Grande Rojo, a gigantic miner, would stride through Nederland’s historic bar, the Pioneer Inn. If you were a cheat, a thief, ...
Can your vote be traced?
The election ballot system used by Boulder County is at the center of a standoff between Secretary of State Scott Gessler and several of Colorado’s county clerks...
A tale of two travelers
A gray wolf has appeared in Colorado and is running free in the Rockies. On July 8, the Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (CPW)...
Digging for the Truth
Tensions between Nederland and a mysterious mining company have escalated since the state ordered the mine to cease and desist
Muzzled by Monsanto
After nearly 30 years studying how plants use their genes to defend against viruses, Vicki Vance, a professor at the University of South Carolina, doesn’t see genetically modifying plants as a malevolent or arrogantly God-like endeavor...
A return to legacy
It’s 8 a.m. at Central City’s newly reopened Bates Hunter Mine, the sun just peaking over the valley walls. It’s been over 70 years...
Land of broken promises
Through novel analyses of data and interviews with local residents, Sam Becker seeks to understand the extent to which the City of Boulder is...
A dam shame?
It’s hard for locals like Seth Cousin, who live on Gross Reservoir, to imagine what it will look like after the dam has been...