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Natural gas: a bridge to nowhere
The term “bridge fuel” has become a catchphrase for natural gas. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Obama referred to natural gas as the “bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change...
Veterans helping veterans… sometimes
It was an unseasonably warm October afternoon when Richard Connelly stood on the porch at 600 Terry St. in Longmont chatting with other veterans about the news — Veterans Helping Veterans Now (VHVN) would be closing by week’s end...
Can You Be Both Mormon and Gay?
Last week, Josh Weed and his wife, Lolly, marked their 10-year anniversary by announcing together on Josh’s blog that he is gay...
It’s Alive! Pleistocene Plant Blooms Again
Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and...
Discovery CEO warns Dish Network against skipping ads
Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav warned Dish Network that...
Now you know: March 9, 2023
Gov. Polis requests to rename Mount Evans
Mount Evans will soon be known as Mount Blue Sky.
“It is clear that Coloradans want a name that...
Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years...
This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and High Country News.
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In the 1950s, after quarreling for decades over the Colorado River,...
A cozy relationship
On a Friday afternoon in mid-July — one day after a terrorist attack using a cargo truck killed 86 people in Nice, France, mere...
Historical hatred breeds contemporary contempt
Philip Hernandez says two years ago his uncle John told him about a store on 24th Street in Boulder (now Folsom Street) that he remembered from his childhood. It wasn’t so much a memory about the store as it was a sign in the store’s front window: “No Mexicans or ...
A whale of a solution
Students from Front Range Community College are heading to D.C. with a hairy new device that could change the way we clean up oil spills
Now you know: June 29, 2023
Prioritized enforcement zones’ are on the ballot
The Safe Zones 4 Kids initiative received enough signatures through the city of Boulder’s direct democracy program to...


















