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Commissioners flooded with requests for fracking moratorium extension
At the hearing called by Boulder County Commissioners on Monday, Nov. 10 in Longmont, public support for a further extension of the county’s moratorium on fracking was relentless, with most commenters requesting at least a three-and-a-half-year extension. Boulder ...
The last man standing
The year was 1942 and the first American forces had landed in Europe. The U.S. was desperate to get men trained and deployed. At Luke Field in Arizona, hundreds of young men went through rushed flight training, and 14 from the entering class of new recruits called ...
War stories
This fall, Stephanie Rudy decided it was time to hand the microphone over, to see what veterans would say given the opportunity to speak. She spent months reaching out to local veterans and military organizations and visiting nursing homes, asking if veterans there ...
No war worth winning
The first waves landed at 9 a.m., we landed at 9:20, and by the time we were coming into the beach, the Japanese had their artillery on Suribachi and on the cliffs to our right and they had every inch of the beach marked, so when we hit the beach, it was in the midst...
Writing the war
"I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France. It was a lovely day for strolling along the seashore. Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them sleeping forever. Men were floating in the water, but they didn’t know they were in the ...
From civilian to soldier and back again
Transitions are rarely easy — starting a new job, moving to a new city or dealing with a medical condition are challenging endeavors for most humans, but for veterans, these challenges are multiplied as they work to transition back into a civilian realm that is ...
The new ways of war
After enjoying decades of unmatched technological capabilities, the U.S. now faces adversaries for whom the number of tanks and their strength isn’t significant. The way we go to war has to change to match these new ways of warfare, says Janine Davidson, a senior ...
Women warriors
Thelma Robinson — Thelma Morey back then — was 16 years old when the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1942. The attack pulled the U.S. out of more than a decade of isolationism and into World War II...
The problem with pavement
Ballot Issue 1A will ask voters whether they want to raise sales taxes “18.5 hundredths of 1 percent for the purpose of paying for the recovery from the 2013 flood...
Bench bias
In the onslaught of campaign ads, one thing Coloradans don’t see are campaigns for judges; however, voters do see judges who are standing for retention on the ballot...
