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An initiative to create “home rule” in Boulder County, which might allow it to ban fracking, GMO cropping and other ventures currently under state jurisdiction, is under way after the Boulder County Clerk recently approved an initial petition for the case...

Because of a conflict between state marijuana statutes and federal gun laws, Colorado residents must choose between owning guns and using marijuana. Yet state law enforcement officials are virtually powerless to enforce the intersection where those conflicting laws ...

In America today, only 11.8 percent of workers are union members. When the labor movement was more powerful, union workers generally had a 20 percent wage advantage and many nonunion firms tended to mimic the wages and benefits of their unionized competitors. If we ...

In March 2003, the United States military, accompanied by a coalition of international forces, invaded Iraq...

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This house will stun. A 1,634-square-foot home with decorative entryway trusses, stucco and stone siding, solar panels affixed just so, a large patio for summer evenings. Nestled under the cold shadow of Eldorado Mountain, set as a downy cub onto what was a meadow (...

In 2008, Hurricane Ike ripped through Houston, Texas, destroying thousands of homes and businesses in Harris County, including the orthopedic implant sales company Campbell Hayden ran alongside his long-time partner Hugh Gouthro. Unable to pick up the pieces, Hayden ...

Editors note: It’s a shame that funerals have to be wasted on the dead. That’s to say that it’s a shame that we tend to wait until someone is lying in a coffin and well past the point of caring before we reflect on how much they meant to us, all the things they ...

The Democratic party in Colorado seems to be banking on an optical illusion — that their incumbent governor will be faced with Republican opponents who are so radically far right that while Governor John Hickenlooper leans right, his positions will still look like ...

On Monday, Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam named Deputy Police Chief Greg Testa the city’s new chief of police. Testa had served as interim chief since April 1 when Mark Beckner retired after 16 years as the city’s lead officer...

A potentially carcinogenic form of the element chromium is in Boulder’s drinking water and there are no plans to remove it anytime soon...

In October, Boulder’s City Council was warned...