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Living in the light
The day after Oscar Juarez publicly announced his immigration status — undocumented, brought to the U.S. at age 7 by parents desperate to escape their impoverished lives in Mexico and eager to promise their children more and better opportunities — he walked into the ...
‘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...
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...
A promise kept
When talking about Planet Bluegrass, it’s hard to separate the company from its founder and festival director Craig Ferguson. It’s as if each is the heart of the other, their fates twisted together in pretty much everything … including floods...
UPDATED: Magpul would move despite CEO’s plan to open new restaurant...
UPDATE: Jamie Hanson says via email that Richard Fitzpatrick's "51 percent ownership of Merlot Burger LLC would in no way impact a move out of state for Magpul if this bill passes and Magpul will move...
The couch cleanse
Distorted science. Fabricated watchdog groups. False testimonies. Decades of public deception. It’s the stuff of a summer blockbuster — but truth is stranger than fiction, they say...
News briefs: Local oil and gas regs proposed, and more
Boulder County proposes new oil and gas rules
Boulder County released its first draft of updated oil and gas regulations on March 6, with several...
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 ...
Two teachers in Jamestown strive to keep their students together after...
The first day the Jamestown Elementary School teachers could get back to the two-room schoolhouse in Jamestown after the floods in September, there were still huge boulders alongside barely-there roads. The road to the schoolhouse was washed out entirely — in its ...
Dodging a bullet… for now
In November 2016, Jose (a pseudonym) found himself at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract detention facility in Aurora. He had been living...
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 ...
