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Signs and suggestions for the end of the world
Well, it’s here. We’ve finally reached the end of the Mayan calendar. Now we will finally know with certainty whether the world is going to come to an end on Dec. 21, or if the guy chipping away the dates simply ran out of room for adding more days on his rock...
Weekly news roundup
City ordinances continue to criminalize homelessness, according to new report
Colorado policymakers are continuing to criminalize homelessness at record rates, according to a new report...
Boulder County news roundup
Boulder County Commissioners extend oil and gas moratorium until 2021
Boulder County will not consider any new oil and gas development applications until at least...
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 ...
Taking action
Razz Gormley hasn’t been an activist for very long. But beginning with the 2012-13 anti-fracking campaigns in Boulder County and most recently hanging for 40 hours from the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon in an effort to stop the Fennica icebreaker from ...
Federal Government To Pay Indian Tribes $1 Billion Over Mismanagement
The U.S. government will pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits...
News: DACA updates, methane monitoring, angry politicians
DACA on the brink, again
Once again, the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is in jeopardy.
In 2017, the Trump administration terminated the...
No, it’s not the game. It’s the players.
It could have been her. That’s what University of Colorado alumnus Elizabeth Woller says she took away from the experience of running the cameras for Tricked, a film about domestic sex trafficking. “These girls could have been me, they could have been my friends,” ...
Vampires are everywhere — but why?
For a full interview with with New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, author of the Dark Series novels, click here...
Victoria Simonsen, Lyons town administrator
By all accounts, Lyons Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen has gone above and beyond, not only in the immediate emergency response to the September flood that wiped out much of her town, but in the recovery effort that ensued...
Talking it out
The past few years have marked a broadening in the conversation about race and policing in the United States. The disproportionate number of young...
Judge orders woman adopted as baby deported to Mexico
TACOMA, Wash. — A federal immigration judge has ordered a 38-year-old woman adopted by an American couple from Mexico when she was 5 months old to be deported back to her native country...
