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‘It’s really crushing’
Many trans students in higher ed struggle with misgendering, isolation and excessive debt. Forgiving student loans could help.
Not one more
Activists stand with black tape covering their mouths, holding large empty plates and posters that read “Not one more” and “We stand with Shoeb.” One simply says “Solidarity” in large black letters. They are standing outside of the Denver Contract Detention Facility ...
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 ...
Now you know: Dec. 13, 2023
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless to offer day services
The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless is working to open a day services center at its...
Bill would ban edible forms of medical marijuana
Concern about patient safety and medical marijuana unintentionally making its way into the hands of minors is what drove State Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, to introduce House Bill 1250. If passed, the bill would remove ingestible forms of medical marijuana from the ...
Now you know: Oct. 26, 2023
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Police Oversight Panel Ordinance overhauled, co-chair resigns
Nearly three years after Boulder City Council approved the initial ordinance creating a...
On the wings of change
Greed, envy, individualism, and an excessive materialism are altering the human experience and causing a lack of equilibrium in the world. I believe the inequality has also generated racism, the sickness of discrimination. This world has lost values; it must begin ...
A unifying field of dreams
The note with a subject line “The Q – Summer Prison Baseball” came out of, shall we say, left field, right after New Year’s...
Lessons from a civil rights activist
Sekou Kambui, also known as William Turk, is no stranger to the long history of racial prejudice and inequality in the U.S. — tensions...
On the run
This story experienced the 1997 version of going viral. How big of an impact did the Weekly’s exclusive interviews with fugitive Richard Keyes, who at the time of the interviews was on the run and on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list really have? Big … really big...
