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Heavy hitter to fight Longmont fracking ban
A group has been formed to fight the city of Longmont’s proposed ban on fracking that is going to voters in November, and one of the state’s most prominent political consultants has been enlisted to lead the effort...
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: 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...
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 ...
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,” ...
The Price of a life
Last March I wrote the essay An Insider’s view of the Venezuelan crisis (see BW’s March 7 issue). One of the stories I shared...
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...
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...
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...
Regulars help save Pumphouse/Red Zone from liquor license loss
One of the main reasons Longmont’s Pumphouse Brewery and its sister establishment, The Red Zone, were able to survive nearly two months without a liquor license was the outpouring of support it received from faithful customers who continued dining there despite its ...
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...
BW wins numerous awards at Top of the Rockies journalism contest
Boulder Weekly took home 29 awards — including eight first-place honors — at this year’s Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies contest...


















