A group of CU grads has launched an unusual — some would say unreasonable — incubator to help brilliant entrepreneurs get their social and environmental ideas funded and off the ground.

Then the details emerge, in dribbles, via the media, in the following days. The victims names were Sean and Staci Griffin, who lived in the south Longmont development of Prospect, where yellow ribbons have appeared by the dozens around trees and lamp posts.

The husband and wife who owned Boulder Stove and Flooring were likely shot by a disgruntled employee who then turned the gun on himself, Boulder police said today. The three people who were found dead inside the store on May 17 have been identified as owners Sean and Staci Griffin of Longmont and one of their employees, Robert Montgomery of Boulder, who had been employed by the store since 2003.

The Boulder City Council is poised to give final approval to its medical marijuana ordinance on Tuesday night, and city staff are in the process of reviewing how that ordinance meshes with state legislation on the same topic passed this week. The ordinance is scheduled for third reading at the May 18 meeting.

SB 193, which was approved by the Senate on May 5, was prompted by an investigation and Feb. 18 article by Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White about the shackling of inmates during labor and delivery. White has also been involved in drafting and lobbying for the bill.

On April 27, a Denver judge authorized the final $596,700 payout in Weiner's 1999 settlement with ASARCO, and the 117 Globeville residents awaiting the second half of their payments finally have some closure and then some. They are being notified of the payments this week, and checks will be cut in early June.

The “shackling bill,” SB 193, has gained the endorsement of the Department of Corrections (DOC) and appears to be headed for approval by the House next week in light of compromises struck today by the bill’s House sponsor, its proponents and DOC officials.

Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, agreed to make a couple of concessions to the local solar industry to gain its support for one of her bills, HB 1342. But she turned down others, saying the solar companies seemed more concerned about protecting their market share than expanding the use of solar energy in the state.

Renowned University of Colorado at Boulder physics professor and Nobel Prize winner Carl Wieman has been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House. The nomination of Wieman was announced today along with three other administration appointments.

It all started with the smell. About five years ago, just after Elvis Licul and his wife moved into their farmhouse northwest of Longmont, they detected the odor. It was coming from a field across the road to the west, where a farmer was using biosolids, or treated human sewage, to fertilize his land for growing hay.Turns out, the stuff is free, provided to farmers by municipal wastewater facilities that are happy to 'recycle' the highly diluted liquid (no more than 5 percent is sewer solids).