Tag: coronavirus
Domestic violence nonprofits prepare for increased abuse
One abuser cut off his partner’s phone service after she stopped going to work due to the coronavirus, leaving her completely isolated from friends,...
The future of brewing in Boulder County
On March 16, 2020, Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers
Association (BA) — the Boulder-based trade group representing small and
independent breweries — posted a...
Hard out here for a pup
Where animal shelters are concerned, the news from cities hardest hit by COVID-19 was bleak: “More dogs in shelters will be euthanized during coronavirus...
Funeral services in Boulder County are being delayed, and with them,...
In George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, Saunders spins a fantastical tale of purgatory and mingling souls not yet settled in eternal homes. It’s...
One of Colorado’s most isolated, rural hospitals faces coronavirus
On Colorado’s Eastern plains, there is one hospital on the I-70 corridor between Denver International Airport and the Kansas border: Lincoln Community Hospital in...
Local venues and restaurants, imperiled by coronavirus shutdown, look for a...
Information on coronavirus, and how our communities are reacting to it, changes by the hour. Throughout this edition and in the coming weeks, BW...
A virtue that produces peace
The emails started coming in on Wednesday, March 11; events canceled and venues closed. There were more emails on Thursday, and by Friday it...
Coronavirus testing ability lags; Colorado ‘chasing the ghost’
Gov. Jared Polis said Colorado officials are “chasing the ghost” when it comes to identifying who has been infected by coronavirus in the state,...
Streaming cat blues
The bad news: the novel
coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple
months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...
Streaming sports
It’s the third Thursday
in March, and under normal circumstances, we’d be steeped in March Madness
right now.
You’re probably reading
this at home. And not because you...
