Tag: Jun 23 2016 issue
Hazardous consequences
This article has been updated to reflect new information regarding the June 3 oil train derailment in Oregon.
In April, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway...
Poll: Americans want environmental methane reduced
A poll conducted by the American Lung Association (ALA) reveals that people want oil and gas companies to better control the leakage of methane into...
Did you hear they’re young?
If there was ever an overstated comment about Michigan-based three piece The Accidentals, it’s that they’re so young. String instrumentalists Savannah Buist and Katie...
New exhibit plants viewers in the world of seeds
Environmental concerns have been ingrained in multimedia artist Sybille Palmer since she was 10 years old. Palmer spent her teenage years in Leverkusen, Germany,...
A slice of Texas in Boulder
For a place that’s only been open for eight months, The Ghost BBQ and Spirits has more stories than some places that have been...
The thoughtful sisters
Eva Holbrook is sitting in the bedroom of her childhood home outside of Fort Collins when we touch base via phone. She’s there for a...
Astrology 6/23/16
ARIES
March 21-April 19: “The past lives on in art and memory,” writes author Margaret Drabble, “but it is not static: it shifts and changes...
Betting on millennials
When I was in college, we drank beer. When my sons were in college, they drank draft beer. But when my granddaughter was in...
ICUMI (In case you missed it)
The princess paradox
In the latest extremely important, not overly obvious study, Brigham Young University researchers found evidence that Disney princess culture could be harmful...
Anti-pot Prop 139 missed the Alzheimer’s memo
There may be a major anti-marijuana initiative on the Colorado Ballot this November. Here’s what you need to know about it, and about a...
Summer food reads 2016
You have to love a cookbook that puts warning labels on some of its recipes:
“Warning! Recipes marked with this symbol are INEDIBLE and shouldn’t...
Letters: 6/23/16
Be an informed voter
There are several contested primary races from the Republican Senate race to the Boulder area state house seat to replace Dickey...