Tag: apr 09 2020 issue
What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do
CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITY
Community Creativity Contest – Home Together | Juntos en Casa.
Home Wanted, a collaborative which aims to develop policies to fund affordable housing...
The no-pandemic challenge
Dear Dan: Your last two columns and your last two podcasts were all about the pandemic. Everything everywhere is all about the pandemic right...
He who looks in the crystal ball…
Large-scale crises — like a global pandemic, for instance — have a way of exposing society’s vulnerabilities; like a UV light on a crime...
No reason to stop organizing
Boulder County is a hotbed of political and social activism. From the Rocky Flats Truth Force protests of the 1970s and ’80s to the...
Social distancing seen from space
It’s Monday around noon, and from space Boulder appears eerily quiet. The red brick of Pearl Street Mall is clearly visible, void of its...
A six-legged team
The day the stay-at-home policies were announced in Boulder, Michael Stone was at Whole Foods. He had his new 2-year-old yellow lab, Geo, with...
Half of nation’s pot users stocked up for the shutdown
File under: “There ain’t no flies on the nation’s stoners.”
According to a survey done by a group called AmericanMarijuana.org, 49% of marijuana users purchased...
Astrology 4/9/20
ARIES
March 21-April 19: Moses did 40 years’ worth of hard work in behalf of his people, delivering them out of slavery in Egypt. Yet...
Tell me again
I am the tinker-toy derelict in the corn;you are the plucky jalopy in the public pool.I mean to say, meet me in the delicatessen;leave...
Why are Coloradans stocking up on guns during the pandemic?
On April 2, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced that it had received 25,468 background checks for gun sales in the previous week —...
News briefs: Oil and gas ask for bailout money, Boulder County...
The Trump administration met with oil and gas companies on April 3 to discuss how the federal government could benefit the industry during the...
Gluten-free in the time of coronavirus
Fourteen years ago, Pamela Fletcher was in a position many parents of young children have found themselves in: something weird was happening with her...
