At What Cost?

Three ballot issues have some wondering just how much the citizens of Colorado are willing to give up for a tax break

Its an ideal time to address the fact that our government has been ignoring our constitution, Menten said. Right now the government is racking up billions of dollars in debt. A great amount of blame can be put on excessive government and irresponsible spending.

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Freeze tag

Spike in graffiti prompts more arrests, stricter regulation

The Vandals Destroying Streets Krew has left its VDSK mark all over the city in recent months. It is composed of at least a half-dozen teenagers who have been responsible for about one-third of the 87 percent increase in graffiti reported over the past year, police say.

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Dreaming of a future

Young undocumented immigrants still hoping DREAM Act will pass

This young woman, who is now 19 and has a track record of high scholastic achievement, volunteerism and leadership training through Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors), Journey through Our Heritage programs and LYFE (Longmont Youth for Equality), has no concrete recollection of her first few years of life in Durango, Mexico.

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Blowin` in the Wind

Citizen sampling finds breathable plutonium in a home and on open space near Rocky Flats, a future recreation area

LeRoy Moore has always been opposed to the plan to open to the public a wildlife refuge that sits on the former site of the Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant near Golden. He says hes never bought the assertions of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that the site, although dotted.

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Boxed in

Pearl Street performer Ibash-I faces immigration troubles after pot arrests. Here’s why Zip Code Man is fighting to keep him in Boulder.

Ive been street performing on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder for almost 20 years. Another performer, Ibash-I (pronounced ee-BAH-shee), the contortionist Ive been performing alongside for about 15 years, is being threatened with deportation from the United States.

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Mobility Impaired

Manager, residents of local mobile home park at odds

Arranged thoughtfully on two stacked coffee tables are metal pigs, a sideways detergent container sprouting a plant and a giant gold medallion bearing the words Boulder and Colorado. Flanked by sunflowers are a female mannequin head on a stick and a walker that is only big enough for a child.

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Stripped of dignity

Women inmates call strip-search procedure demeaning, traumatizing

Being strip-searched has long been a part of incarceration. But inmates at Denver Womens Correctional Facility (DWCF) say a change in their strip-search procedure subjects them to undue humiliation and leaves some of them traumatized, particularly those with a history of sexual assault.

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27 Years of Activism

Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center lays off staff, reinvents itself

In the late 1970s, a group of protesters blocked the railroad tracks at Rocky Flats in an attempt to keep trains from delivering nuclear bomb-making supplies to the plant. That group, the “Rocky Flats Truth Force,” occupied the tracks for a whole year, and was joined by several prominent figures, including Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Daniel Ellsberg.

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The opposite of everything is true

Reflecting on the whiteness of denial

Kwame Turu (Stokely Carmichael) used to talk about how, when as a young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer, he'd gone South to face down the endemic violence of Jim Crow, the racism of which had always defined the character of a country reserved at its inception for the enjoyment of free, white men.

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American Indians: Resiliency in Independence

On the Fourth of July, citizens celebrate with barbeques, picnics, ceremonies and lots of fireworks each year in the United States. It marks a beginning point in this countrys history, independence from the British. How does the American Indian fit into this idea of independence when it wasn’t until 1924 that, as a group, American Indians were granted citizenship?

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