Boulderites have been griping about the local government since time immemorial. But official complaints — submitted with a signed affidavit and required, by law, to be investigated by in-house attorneys or independent counsel — have been relatively rare in recent years. City Council went years with only the odd complaint, weathering numerous political storms. Even […]
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Al Harrington ended his 16-season professional basketball career in 2015. The power forward had played for the Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets and more. He played 981 games, scored 13,237 points, and earned more than $97 million. But even that fortune would pale in comparison to what Harrington would make after he […]
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): History tells us that Albert Einstein was a brilliant genius. After his death, the brain of the pioneer physicist was saved and studied for years in the hope of analyzing the secrets of why it produced so many great ideas. Science writer Stephen Jay Gould provided a different perspective. He said, […]
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Around the clock, commercial radio station KOA 850 AM pumps out what can only be considered racist, sexist, elitist and xenophobic white male supremacist propaganda that directly and indirectly targets African Americans and other Americans of color, as well as progressive women from all walks of life. Nonetheless, commentary on the University of Colorado Buffaloes […]
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The librarian let Julie Carr look at the box, but she couldn’t look in it. Carr, a professor in CU’s English department, knew her great-grandfather’s 11-volume autobiography was inside, but until an issue cleared with “Legal,” Carr couldn’t read the archives for herself. She knew some of Omer Madison Kem’s story: Born in 1855, Kem […]
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We all have questions and need advice, but sometimes the pseudo therapy in the Instagram stories of astrology girls doesn’t cut it. Or maybe the gate-keeping culture of adventure bros has you fearing the judgment that comes with revealing yourself as a newbie at anything. This advice column exists to hold space for you and […]
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As far as Daren Cook is concerned, humans never would have made it without fermentation. It’s hard to imagine a tolerable modern life without beer, wine, cider and mead — not to mention coffee, tea and chocolate, but Cook means it quite literally. “Fermentation made food digestible,” he says. “It preserved food to last the […]
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Peter Waters knows keeping it simple works. He’s the managing partner at T/aco, but also runs Ruthie’s Boardwalk Social, which serves just shy of 10 variations of grilled cheese sandwiches from a walk-up window on the corner of 14th and Pearl. “People joke that quesadillas are the nexus of my universe,” Waters says. During the […]
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When James Moore was incarcerated at Four Mile Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, he spent his weekdays riding on the back of a truck, tossing hay to horses or walking from stable to stable to water them. Moore was a part of the Wild Horse Inmate Program, a Colorado Correctional Industries (CCI) project in […]
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Until she toured the 152 acres of open space in Westminster bearing his name a few years ago, Amanda Berg Wilson had never heard of former Colorado Attorney General John Metzger. “Truly, I knew nothing about him,” admits Wilson, co-founder and artistic director of The Catamounts, whose outdoor Pride of the Farm at Metzger Farm […]
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