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Catholics defend, decry Sacred Heart decision
As more details emerge about the circumstances surrounding child of the lesbian couple who was denied re-enrollment at the Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder, local gay-rights advocates say they have been encouraged by the support they have received...
Q&A with Archdiocese’s De Melo on Sacred Heart Decision
In an e-mail exchange, Boulder Weekly asked Jeanette De Melo, the director of communications for the Archdiocese of Denver, several questions that have been raised about the decision to keep a lesbian couple’s child from re-enrolling at the Sacred Heart of Jesus ...
What Seth Brigham would have said
(if he had not been removed and arrested) In Seth Brigham’s mind, efforts by the Boulder City Council to muzzle citizen criticism didn’t begin when he was arrested at the Feb. 16 council meeting wearing only boxer shorts. A recent statement from the city ...
Digital signs recognize viewers, target ads to them
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Using technology from top Silicon Valley companies such as Cisco and Intel, advertisers are creating a new breed of digital signs that can be customized depending on a viewer's age and gender...
Animal activists target big breeders and puppy mills
CHICAGO — Carla Kibler said she wishes she had investigated before falling in love with Beefcake, an English bulldog puppy she bought from a Naperville, Ill., pet store in December. Her 10-year-old triplets agreed to forgo their Christmas presents to get the dog, ...
Boy, 7, calls 911 and saves his family
LOS ANGELES — Authorities were hailing a 7-year-old Norwalk...
Rumors of wolves have some in Colorado howling
The news had scarcely gotten out that a western Colorado rancher suspected he had wolves on his land when the phone started ringing at state wildlife offices...
MySpace overhauls site to catch up with Facebook
LOS ANGELES — In a last-ditch effort to revive struggling MySpace, owner News Corp. has adopted a new strategy that it hopes will give the site's millions of users a reason to keep coming back...
Same-sex marriages begin in nation’s capital
WASHINGTON — As a cellist and soloist performed Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," Darlene Garner and Candy Holmes walked down the aisle Tuesday morning and became among the first gay couples to legally marry in the District of Columbia...
Amazon to Colorado associates: You’re fired!
On Monday morning Colorado-based Amazon Associates woke up to an e-mail informing them that they were fired. Amazon said thanks to Colorado House Bill 10-1193 signed by Gov. Bill Ritter last month, all of their Colorado-based associates accounts have been shut down. ...
