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BolderBoulder ‘sissy’ T-shirt stirs debate
On May 26, tens of thousands of people from around the world will descend upon Boulder — some of them in traditional running gear, many of them in wacky costumes — to participate in the annual BolderBoulder, a 10-kilometer road race that has become one of America’s ...
Lawsuit in the land of legal marijuana
In September of 2012, when Gary Gabrel was introduced to the owner and founder of Dixie Elixirs, it looked to be a good match for a venture into the vastly uncharted world of marijuana sales...
The butcher’s bill
Those that read “The New Moral Crusade,” Boulder Weekly’s March 27 investigation into Boulder’s recent crackdown on local bars, might have been surprised by the relative calmness of the Boulder Beverage Licensing Authority meeting on April 16, the first meeting ...
The cost of tilting at the 4/20 windmill
For the third consecutive year, the University of Colorado Boulder will spend upwards of $100,000 to close campus on April 20 in its effort to smother anything resembling a 4/20 marijuana smokeout, which the university says has become too disruptive. But only a ...
Filling up
Boulder Sheriff ’s Cmdr. Jeff Goetz passes through a locked door into the garage at the county jail. This is where the inmates are unloaded from vehicles and frisked. Through one more steel door, and another, the inmates are processed and those who are unable to bail...
ERACISM: Unwanted Latinos deported from Boulder County in the 1930s
Editor’s note: In Part 3 of our continuing “Eracism” series on the history of Latinos in Boulder County, being conducted in partnership with the Boulder County Latino History Project, we explore the role of the deportation of Latinos to Mexico in the 1930s...
Fractious debate
To Joann Ginal, a simple question doesn’t always yield an easy answer. For example: If oil and gas production is near your house, can it harm your family...
Deported to death
If returned to El Salvador, Jaime Leon Rivas fears he’s next ‘to get killed’ When he was a little boy in El Salvador, Jaime Leon Rivas never wondered about George Washington even though the president’s face was everywhere. The U.S. dollar is the country’s official ...
