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‘Gasland’ filmmaker to speak at local anti-fracking event

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Josh Fox, the creator of Gasland, the documentary film that helped catalyze national activism against hydraulic fracturing, will be the guest speaker at an anti-fracking fundraiser in Boulder on Dec. 2...

Now you know: June 15, 2023

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Food pantries get relief  More than $4 million in emergency funding from the state’s Food Pantry Assistance Grant (FGAP) will be distributed to 245 organizations...

Killing Amendment 2

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In 1993, the year of Boulder Weekly’s birth, an uproar began over Colorado voters’ passage of Amendment 2, which banned any laws protecting gays from discrimination. The cities of Boulder, Denver and Aspen had passed such laws...

Banned Pesticides Found in Popular Chinese Tea Brands

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A Greenpeace investigation has found pesticides banned for use on tea...

Buying in

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Though the election is six months away, the oil and gas industry is already plunging millions of dollars into campaigns to quash proposals seeking to give local governments the power to limit or ban fracking. Though those proposals are still forming, scores of ads ...

Commentary: Medical marijuana and taxes

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An obscure tax law, intended to prevent cocaine kingpins from deducting yachts and other necessities, may alter Boulder’s landscape...

Lessons from a civil rights activist

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Sekou Kambui, also known as William Turk, is no stranger to the long history of racial prejudice and inequality in the U.S. — tensions...

Now you know: Nov. 15, 2023

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King Soopers shooting defendant pleads not guilty in preliminary hearing  The alleged King Soopers shooter pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in a preliminary...

Obituary for a river

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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 ...

UC Berkeley students make world-record California sushi roll

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BERKELEY, Calif. — It began with ninjas and it ended with...