News
Local clinician reflects on trip to Haiti
Stephanie Porter gave mobility to earthquake-ravaged nation Stephanie Porter felt the rush of air conditioning when she stepped off the plane at Miami International Airport last month. She found herself surrounded once again by Starbucks, restaurants and the ...
Bleeding ink
More details have surfaced about the behind-the-scenes factors that contributed to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s move to discontinue its journalism school...
Attack ads find favorite target in Pelosi
WASHINGTON — In one of the hundreds of campaign ads targeting the Speaker of the House, the candidate boasts, "I voted against Nancy Pelosi's agenda 267 times...
Red alert: Color-coded threat scale is tossed
WASHINGTON — The much-lampooned color-coded Department of Homeland Security threat alerts are being replaced with a simpler, two-level system that warns of specific dangers for a defined period of time...
Twitter co-creator keeps to the quiet edges of life
ST. LOUIS — One night in mid-September, a man named Jack...
Latino community reluctant to call 911, study finds
During a heart attack, cardiac arrest event or stroke, the minutes that pass before medical care is administered can cost heart muscle and brain function, but emergency medicine physician Comilla Sasson, who works at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in ...
Access road to drill site near Union Reservoir sparks controversy
Despite open frustration from fracking opponents, some Longmont city officials say that granting a drilling company permission to build an access road to a well near Union Reservoir gives the city the ability to closely monitor water quality and air emissions...
Boulder seek suspects in possible hate crime, robbery
Boulder police have released sketches of suspects they are seeking in two recent incidents — one involving a possible hate crime against two Middle Eastern men, and one involving an aggravated robbery.The possible bias-motivated assault occurred during two separate ...
Boulder’s municipalization minefield
The City of Boulder has reached another milestone in its effort to explore creation of a municipal electric utility company. Staff has prepared a 285-page memo for city council members explaining that it is, indeed, possible for the city to successfully create a ...
Ending war on drugs
June 17 will mark 40 years since President Richard Nixon, citing drug abuse as “public enemy No. 1,” officially declared a “war on drugs.” Activists say that a trillion dollars and millions of ruined lives later, the war on drugs shows no signs of ending — or of ...
Twenty-five years of independent journalism in Boulder County
To celebrate BW's 25th anniversary, we dedicated several sections of this week's edition to looking back on the last quarter-century of news and events,...
