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| Sep 11, 2026 | After years of frustrating delay, South Boulder Creek flood mitigation work is finally beginning (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Late last month, the City of Boulder finally announced the beginning of a long-overdue project: the South Boulder Creek Flood Mitigation project.
Thirteen years after thousand-year rains led to a 1... |
| Aug 9, 2026 | Standing up for principles is admirable, but Boulder’s City Council is now down a key voice (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Late last month, Boulder City Councilmember Mark Wallach abruptly resigned his seat. Wallach’s resignation came in protest after the council voted to accept FAA funding for the Boulder Municipal Ai... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Will Boulder’s special license for Sundance hit the Airbnb policy sweet spot? (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
When the Sundance Film Festival begins in Boulder on Jan. 21, 2027, tens of thousands of filmmakers and moviegoers will descend on the city. The influx of film aficionados will bring a problem fami... |
| Aug 2, 2026 | A downtown development authority is the first step toward revitalizing Boulder (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Boulder’s downtown was declining. Property values were decreasing, sales tax revenue was falling, and change was desperately needed. So, the City of Boulder forged a partnership and decided to inve... |
| Jul 26, 2026 | Boulder’s senior house-sharing proposal is a great idea (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Boulder is changing in a lot of ways: New developments are sprouting up, our roadways are evolving, and the preparations for our upcoming inaugural Sundance Film Festival are starting to visibly ta... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Boulder should halt use of Flock – and all other automatic license plate readers (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Brian C. Keegan, Jed Brown and Andrew Brandt
The City of Boulder will choose a new vendor in the coming weeks to run the city’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The city’s deployment of ... |
| Jun 28, 2026 | Boulder Planning Board chair target of formal complaint over airport decisions | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A formal complaint filed with the city of Boulder raises concerns about the intersection of Planning Board Chair Laura Kaplan’s duties and her advocacy against the future of the Boulder Municipal A... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Pomerance: City Council doesn’t like citizens complaining to the staff, but refuses to listen | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Earlier this week, Boulder council members Matt Benjamin and Tina Marquis published a lengthy complaint accusing citizens of verbally abusing city staff. They told people to, instead, communicate t... |
| May 17, 2026 | It’s time for Boulder to rewrite its Land Use Code and unlock the development we need to thrive (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
We’ve all heard the anecdotes: single-family homes that aren’t selling, shrinking elementary school classroom sizes, the slow vanishing of early-career workers and families from restaurants and bar... |
| May 10, 2026 | If automatic license plate readers are here to stay, we must regulate how their data is accessed (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Late last month, mass surveillance scored a major victory in the Colorado Capitol.
Senate Bill 70 would have limited access to license plate-reading cameras’ data, including by any outside agencies... |
| Apr 15, 2026 | What values does CU Boulder truly hold dear?; a slap in the face; visiting the ICE facility (Letters) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
What values does CU Boulder truly hold dear?
“Our vision is to transform lives in service to a just and sustainable world.”
This is the statement emblazoned across the About CU Boulder webpage in l... |
| Apr 12, 2026 | Allowing renters to sublease during Sundance is a win for everyone (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Earlier this month, the Boulder City Council took another positive step toward setting up our community to benefit from Sundance: allowing renters to sublease their homes during the festival.
The i... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Boulder’s contract with Flock deserves more scrutiny (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the Boulder Police Department no longer shares Flock license plate data with the Loveland Police Department.
Mass surveillance has arriv... |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Tayer: Let’s sign the petition and get the Boulder County Commission expansion initiative on the ballot | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Boulder Chamber doesn’t often weigh in regarding structural questions pertaining to government representation and/or elections. The balance of economic and business interests isn’t always clear... |
| Feb 15, 2026 | AI news platform shows us why real news from real humans matters (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Earlier this year, a local news platform, Longmont News Network, shared an article and photo on Facebook. The photo appeared to depict a renovated Longmont City Council chambers. The article misspe... |
| Feb 8, 2026 | Five Boulder County Commissioners will increase representation and accountability (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Way back in 1861, before Colorado even became a state, Boulder County was incorporated and a three-commissioner, at-large election model was established, as was the norm in the Midwest and West. Ba... |
| Jan 18, 2026 | Worried about surveillance, states enact privacy laws and restrict license plate readers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
As part of its deportation efforts, the Trump administration has ordered states to hand over personal data from voter rolls, driver’s license records and programs... |
| Dec 21, 2025 | The season of compassion must prevail during the age of cruelty (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
On Tuesday, Boulder County held a vigil for 51 people. Fifty-one members of our community who died this year — many of them far too soon.
The ceremony was part of National Homeless Persons’ Memoria... |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Public participation only works if the County listens (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Dana Bove
At the December 4 Boulder County Commissioners meeting, I was signed up — on what the Commission itself described as a limited ten-person list — to speak. Just as happened in April, wh... |
| Oct 19, 2025 | Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built (Opinion) | By Susan D. Daggett and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard
Removing parking requirements for new buildings could help thousands of Coloradans who struggle to afford housing.
There is a shortage of over 106,000 homes across Colorado, according to a rece... |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Boulder ‘floods the zone’ with propaganda; Trump wants NOAA head who will prioritize his ego (Letters) | Trump wants a NOAA head who will prioritize his ego
By 1900, Cuban meteorologists had become arguably the best in the world at predicting hurricane paths. In early September, they were observing a violent storm which their modeling told the... |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Guest opinion: Carole Brandt: Is this what democracy looks like? | Carole Brandt lives in Louisville. |
| May 29, 2025 | Former Boulder Abortion Clinic staffers plan to open new clinic offering later procedures | The former Boulder Abortion Clinic staffers, whose plans were first reported by the Boulder Reporting Lab, are meeting with foundations and accepting funds through GoFundMe and the Brigid Alliance, which helps with expenses for patients tra... |
| May 18, 2025 | Editorial: Cancelling research awards, grants will harm innovation and put the US behind | Nationally, research is a huge financial boon. Take, for example, research funding from just one federal agency, the National Institutes of Health. Across the country, for every $1 the NIH spent on research funding, $2.56 of economic activi... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | Fires and floods are eviscerating US communities, intensifying the housing crisis | Climate change, experts warn, is the world’s fastest-growing driver of homelessness, displacing millions of people annually. In 2022 alone, disasters forced 32.6 million people worldwide from their homes, according to a 2023 report by the I... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Littleton tables measure aimed at welcoming denser housing types in face of growing opposition | Grove acknowledged those concerns, saying greater attention should be paid to multiplexes’ potential impacts on traditional suburban neighborhoods, “which is the reason we bought here, which is the reason we live here, which is what really ... |
| Dec 29, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: In 2025, let’s stay civically engaged and continue working on our community | And this past year has shown us plenty of things worth changing.
Here in Boulder in 2024, we continued to struggle with homelessness — including the recent dismissal of a challenge to our city’s inhumane camping ban. The housing crisis pers... |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Laura Kaplan: Refuse FAA funding to gain the right to determine the airport’s future | Airport supporters claim that BDU is on the brink of becoming a clean, quiet, neighborly airport. They promise that a combination of federal government action, technological wizardry and voluntary agreements will erase all of BDU’s negative... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The Tug-of-War Over Transparency and Wages in Boulder | In Boulder, two critical issues are unfolding: access to public records and the debate over minimum wage. Both are intertwined with the fabric of community trust and economic stability. Access to public records is like sunlight breaking thr... |
| Aug 25, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Access to public records is vital – and shouldn’t be unnecessarily expensive | On the other hand, it also makes sense for it to be difficult for the department to release unedited video footage. It is difficult to prepare hours of raw footage for release — for instance, care has to be taken to protect the privacy of b... |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Rising from the Ashes: The Marshall Fire Recovery and Legislative Triumph | In the wake of disaster, communities often find themselves grappling with loss and uncertainty. The Marshall fire, which swept through Colorado in December 2021, was no exception. It left a trail of destruction, obliterating homes and displ... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Politics | How the Marshall fire sparked a rare disaster recovery success story | Many of the same issues crop up across the country after fires and floods, but survivors rarely succeed in getting lawmakers to pay attention to any of them, let alone all of them. Brown, however, was able to gain bipartisan support for bil... |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Politics | Colorado Democrats reject resolution calling for Gaza cease-fire | Opponents criticized the resolution as divisive, unhelpful and misguided. Critics included University of Colorado Regents Ilana Dubin Spiegel and Callie Rennison. Pro-Palestinian protesters had demonstrated outside of both regents’ homes in... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Ditch our franchise with Xcel; protections for victims of domestic crimes will save lives | Ditch our franchise with Xcel, pursue the Muni
The best solution to prevent powerline fires, and to lower electric costs, is for everyone where practical to have home solar and some battery storage, so if powerlines are turned off most have... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Aerial disaster response will remain; encourage more gun ownership | City will keep aerial disaster response if airport is transformed
In March 2022, the NCAR fire burned 190 acres and threatened thousands of homes, including mine. I felt the shock of realizing we needed to evacuate.
I share our community’s ... |
| Dec 31, 2023 | Editorials | Editorial: In 2024, let’s continue working toward making Boulder a better place to live for everyone | Tomorrow is the start of a new year.
For many of us, 2024 can’t come soon enough. This year, 2023, has been another difficult year in a string of difficult years. Our fractious political landscape continued to drive a wedge deeper and deepe... |
| Dec 24, 2023 | Editorials | Editorial: Boulder’s homeless crisis requires a more compassionate approach | On Tuesday, Boulder County held a vigil for 54 people. Fifty-four members of our community who died this year — many of them far too soon.
The ceremony was part of National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, and the 54 neighbors we lost were a... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | Local News | Boulder County coroner takes time away after internal investigation | Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall said she’s taking time away from the office following a third-party investigation that affirmed workplace complaints from employees.
The investigation found reason to support employee allegations including f... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Letters to the Editor | Letters to the editor: Starvation wages have no place in Boulder; preventing another fire disaster; be heard on Fox News case | Charles F. Clark: Labor: Starvation wages have no place in Boulder
“We’re going to get it wrong and we’re going to piss people off,” said the man who is a candidate for Boulder mayor as quoted in the Boulder Reporting Lab on August 28, 2023... |
| Sep 10, 2023 | Editorials | Editorial: 10 years on from flood, there is still work to be done | This week, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Flood of 2013.
From Sept. 11 through 15, 2013, a deluge unlike anything seen in generations pummeled the Front Range. In Boulder, the thousand-year rains led to a 100-year flood that da... |
| Jul 30, 2023 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Millennium hotel redevelopment can alleviate pressure on housing supply | The argument taking place in Boulder between those in favor of development and those against it tends to be spoken of in black-and-white terms. Development, in general, is either good or bad. A given project will either be a solution to our... |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Gary McClelland: Boulder’s climate action must include e-bikes – even on open space trails | By Gary McClelland
The City of Boulder supports climate action at its highest levels, but recent examples show that when the rubber meets the road or path, the operational units of our city government haven’t gotten the message.
A recent ex... |
| Feb 3, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Ailsa Wonnacott: After Mezzanine’s closure, Boulder must work to preserve assisted living communities | By Ailsa Wonnacott
On January 4, 2023, Boulder’s Golden West informed residents and their families that the Mezzanine, the facility’s assisted living program which has provided residential services to seniors and people with disabilities si... |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Crime and Public Safety
Crime and Public Safety | ‘Systemic failure’: Report outlines communication, training shortcomings in Boulder detective unit | Officer Kwame WilliamsPhoto credit: Boulder Police Department
A report further outlining a detective’s failure to properly investigate cases, an incident that resulted in discipline for four members of the Boulder Police Department, highlig... |
| Oct 2, 2022 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Increasing turnout must be our priority, ‘yes’ on 2E | The difference in voter turnout between even- and odd-year elections is stark. County data shows that roughly 30,000 fewer eligible voters cast ballots in the city of Boulder in 2021 than in 2020. In a city of 108,000, that is a huge drop-o... |
| Sep 25, 2022 | Editorials
Editorials | Editorial: Libraries aren’t cheap, but they’re worth every penny, ‘yes’ on 6C | Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that patrons can visit the Carnegie Library for Local History by appointment.
Over 100 years ago, Andrew Carnegie pledged $15,000 to help Boulder build its first public library. The gr... |
| Aug 20, 2022 | News
News | Buskers still thriving on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall after 45 years despite pandemic | Forty-five years after the Pearl Street Mall’s opening and two years into a global pandemic, Pearl Street is buzzing with activity. Although the events of the past few years have shaken Boulder, the city center has nonetheless kept its vibr... |
| May 27, 2022 | Editorials
Editorials | Community Editorial Board: City Council elections | Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Boulder may ask voters in November to move City Council elections to even ye... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Darren O’Connor: City leaders ignore the real threat that is the FBI | By Darren O’Connor
Boulder City Council recognized Black History Month on Feb.1, the same night Council and staff proceeded to ignore such history — to the peril of Black community members.
Three Councilmembers — Junie Joseph, Lauren Folker... |
