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News Briefs: Feb. 16, 2023
Boulder County District Attorney’s Office releases in-depth disparity analysis
The Boulder County District Attorney’s (DA) Office, in collaboration with Prosecutor Performance Indicators (PPI), the Colorado...
Troubled waters
Zoe Rhodes-Wolin, a ninth grader at Boulder High School, bikes to school with her little sister along Boulder Creek Path, until Rhodes-Wolin recently decided...
Boulder County calls for regulation of leaded aviation gas
The Boulder County Commissioners voted on Jan. 17 to support an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding that could create regulatory standards for lead emissions...
Colorado River ‘cuts’
The seven Colorado River Basin states missed a Jan. 31 federal deadline to come up with a plan to reduce their use of the...
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ARPA funds expand mental health and social resilience programs
The Boulder County Board of Commissioners allocated funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)...
Wave your flag
When it comes to flags, Ted Kaye calls it like he sees it.
“Denver’s is great,” he says. “Centennial has a pretty good flag” and...
Small businesses, big impacts
Microplastics are everywhere. The small bits of plastic — anywhere from about the size of a sesame seed to a tenth of the size of...
Brewing discontent
It was dusk by the time votes were counted on Tuesday, Jan. 24. A representative for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tallied the...
Small but mighty
Part of Amy Yarger’s work at the Butterfly Pavilion is to boost biodiversity — an increasingly daunting task.
“People often say, ‘Pollinators are cool —...
A cloud overhead
A matte-black carrying case with two heavy latches suggests something vaguely weapons-grade in the trunk of the rented Jeep. An optical gas-imaging camera is removed...