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Dying in our streets
The job of journalists is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” In November 1995, it would have been hard to find anyone in Boulder more afflicted and uncomfortable than Anita Belletti. When Boulder Weekly interviewed Belletti, she was undergoing ...
America’s Women Can’t Be Trusted
Like many women who are also human beings, I’ve been following the...
Body art battle
Enchanted Ink, a tattoo and piercing studio on Pearl Street, was open for appointments only on Wednesday, Aug. 25, the last time the Boulder County Public Health inspector stopped by...
Ethnic groups say ‘white’ isn’t enough on the 2010 cens
DETROIT — With her light-brown skin and Islamic headscarf...
Skatepark skulduggery
Police have spent a significant amount of time responding to incidents at the skatepark in Lafayette during the first seven months it has been open...
Difference in U.S. and Canadian gun laws in contrast
The LA Times published a story today of a man that took a wrong turn in Vermont, and found himself at a Canadian border crossing with a legally-held handgun that landed him in jail, illustrating some of the differences between U.S. and Canadian gun policy...
In a bid to reignite its growth, AOL to buy the...
In a bid to make itself relevant again, struggling Internet pioneer AOL Inc. announced late Sunday that it would buy the Huffington Post, the well-known news and opinion site, for $315 million in cash and stock...
Poop dreams: A farmer on why we should care about manure
From time to time a book merits its title. Published in 2010, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind may just be the No. 1 book on the No. 2 business. In it, Gene Logsdon manages to be both funny and educational as he advocates for overcoming our aversion to ...