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Now you know: Nov. 21, 2023

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The turkey lives Gov. Jarden Polis performed four official turkey pardons for the first time in Colorado history on Nov. 20. The ceremony has a long...

What the frack?

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Boulder County’s northeast shoulder is about to get fracked. Again...

Wondering about tutoring and if your child would benefit? Here are...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters As educators look for ways to help students as they recover...

Drumbeat of war grows louder

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Editor’s Note: When regular Boulder Weekly freelancer Haley Gray — who speaks fluent Arabic — told us she was going to be spending a few months in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, we made arrangements for her to write a few stories on subjects that we felt our readers ...

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...

The end of fall foliage: Why leaves’ colors are fading

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The much-beloved colors of fall — the golds, reds, oranges and even browns of leaves in autumn — might not last forever...

‘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...

People of the Year: Boulder County’s wildland firefighters

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It had been a quiet, relaxing Labor Day morning for Bruce Honeyman, chief of the Sunshine Fire Protection District. He was reading the newspaper, wearing his favorite comfy sweat pants and orange Crocs, both of which his wife hates...

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 ...

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 ...

In Texas Senate, heroine Wendy Davis and Democrats win in the...

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The Texas legislature was the star of social media last night, as the Democratic minority mounted a filibuster against a tough anti-abortion law that would have caused more than half of Texas' abortion clinics to close. And after more twists and turns than a Bond ...

Top environmental scientists, authors to lead Earth Day discussion

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Top environmental journalists, professors and analysts will direct a teach-in on global warming, fracking and the oil and gas industry at the University of...