Uncensored

Funding cut hurts county breast-cancer programs

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Boulder County has been hit hard by a decrease in funding from Susan G. Komen For the Cure. Poor women, those without health insurance and undocumented immigrant women are among those who will likely feel the greatest impact of this decrease. And it is up to us to ...

Mental health care, not gun laws

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In the aftermath of the Aurora theater massacre, we’ve seen an understandable, if misguided, call for tighter gun control, including a renewed ban on “assault weapons...

It’s time to talk about rape

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In October, it will have been 20 years since I wrote my first Uncensored column. The subject of that column was sexual assault, a topic that I’ve covered again and again. The column was written in response to a series of ignorant letters to the editor written about ...

New Age outrage

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It’s a terrible lesson the New Age community has been dealt. Whether that lesson has been learned remains to be seen...

Women are not farms

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I spent an afternoon some time ago with a master composter who, while helping me improve my composting game, offered this summation of our consumer-based economic system: “It’s all about making more people to sell more shit to...

Anti-abortion activists like Roeder akin to Christian terrorists

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It’s a good thing that a Witchita, Kan., jury found Scott...

Kick the Xcel habit

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The trouble with finding new sources of renewable energy is that the people who currently profit off our energy use want to continue profiting forever and ever. Our need as a human family to find new ways of staying warm, cooking our meals and making things go vroom ...

Drunk on power

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Before Boulder City Council convenes again, its members should ask themselves this question: To what degree should government burden local businesses in order to manipulate the behavior of adults...

Keep your laws off patients’ brownies

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If you put THC in a lollipop, it will end up in a child’s mouth...

Howard Zinn, the people’s historian

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On Jan. 27, America lost Howard Zinn. A World War II bombardier, a historian, an author and professor, Zinn challenged the way Americans look at their nation and themselves with the publication of his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States. Though right-...

There’s no easy fix for homelessness

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Back in 1929, Boulder’s respectable folks called it “The Jungle.” Historical photographs from Boulder’s Carnegie Library show men and women standing in the mud among the shanties, shacks and tents they called home. Back in the day, local newspapers referred to these ...

Prairie dog poisoning shows need for protection

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Colorado Horse Rescue performs an important mission. A nonprofit, CHR provides shelter, veterinary care, rehabilitation and adoption services for horses that have been abused and neglected. Through this compassionate care, CHR saves equine lives. It’s ...