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The ghosts of Valmont Butte
Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site...
Make Colorado grizzly again
After almost a decade of federally funded bounty programs, grizzly bears were officially declared “extirpated” in Colorado in 1951. So when Ed Wiseman was...
Cycles of crime
It was around four in the morning when the stolen box truck came smashing through the garage door of Sports Garage Cycling on Spruce...
An incomplete picture
Early Tuesday morning, on Aug. 18, Camp Free-Spirit’s executive leadership team at Occupy Boulder smiled for a photo in front of their office: President...
Behind closed doors
A recording made during a 2015 meeting of oil and gas industry representatives and state regulators has surfaced. We believe the information from this...
A tough year for direct democracy
Steve Pomerance knows City Council won’t always take him seriously, given his laundry list of concerns about Boulder. But since he proved himself right...
Breach of trust?
The City of Broomfield and the Woman Creek Reservoir Authority (WCRA), a political subdivision and public corporation of the State of Colorado, are opposed...
‘Hard to imagine it’s going to get worse’
When Sophie Feder Rosenberg was supposed to start walking, at around 18 months old, she didn’t want to. It seemed like she was in...
WikiLeaks appears to expose Clinton’s real position on DAPL
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s silence on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and its accompanying protests has been deafening for months.
Thousands of Native Americans...
The Russian connections to Michael Flynn’s Turkish benefactor
In early March, President Trump’s former national security adviser and campaign trail confidant Michael Flynn registered as a “foreign agent” with the Department of...
Behind the curtain
If money is speech, then it stands to reason that a very small number of very wealthy people can effectively drown out the voices of the multitude on issues they determine worthy of a shout via their checkbooks. Currently in Colorado, the issues where this money/ ...