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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...
Boulder sheriff, immigration activists agree: Repeal SB 90
A group of immigration activists who protested at the state Capitol this week and Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle have something in common...
City: Valmont Butte cleanup is finally complete
The remediation of the 103-acre parcel, which the city purchased in 2001, began in early 2012 and was expected to be completed in December of that year at a cost of $5 million, an amount the city was splitting with Honeywell, which had acquired a company partially ...
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,” ...
Moving forward after the shooting
This week, BW began the long process of exploring the issues related to the March 22 shooting in Boulder. We'll be looking at all...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Palin: ‘Haven’t made up my mind’ on 2012 run
WOODBURY, N.Y. — In a poised and lively appearance before business executives in Woodbury on Thursday, Sarah Palin remained coy about whether she will run for president next year...
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...
Now you know: April 27, 2023
Motion for partial judgment in lawsuit against Boulder’s blanket ban
The ACLU and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the City of Boulder over its...
