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Baby’s — and Grandma’s — first protest

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Occupy Boulder is shaping up to be a movement as diverse in...

Oil Boom

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The library and the post office. A dozen schools. Hundreds of homes. Parks. Every brewery (oh god). Ten gas stations. The wastewater treatment facility. It can all go up in flames at any minute — and that’s just in Longmont. All you’ll hear is a whistle and a boom...

It’s Alive! Pleistocene Plant Blooms Again

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Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and...

The curation of discovery: Part 2

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This week’s serialized installment of The curation of discovery begins with a continuation of the conversation between myself and Ava Hamilton, an Arapaho and...

All aboard

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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...

Police Blotter | Attempted murder

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boulderweekly.com/policeblotter Attempted murder...

Two teachers in Jamestown strive to keep their students together after...

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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 ...

People’s tribunal finds ICE guilty

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It wasn’t a real courtroom, but the 200-plus people in attendance took the final verdict seriously. When the word “guilty” finally rang out, it...

The fracking/real estate conundrum continued

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Last week, in part one of this series, we examined how fracking and oil and gas shale development is likely driving down home values for the millions of Americans living near wells, production platforms, pipelines and other industrial paraphernalia belonging to the ...

Taking the taboo out of mature gaming

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It’s like clockwork; moments after popping open any...

‘Don’t tell them there’s nothing wrong’

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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...