Bob D'Alessandro, executive director of the Boulder County Farmers' Markets, told Boulder Weekly that he recently announced to the approximately 50 market vendors who are not farmers that minimum revenue thresholds will be created to determine whether a vendor is invited back next year.

Residents of the Town of Nederland voted to legalize marijuana yesterday. The measure removes all criminal penalties in Nederland municipal code related to marijuana, its concentrates and paraphernalia for anyone who is at least 21 years old. Voters in Breckenridge passed a similar measure last year. “Turnout was high,” Town Clerk Christi Icenogle quipped when contacted by Boulder Weekly. The vote was 259 in favor, 218 against.

Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, says she was not aware of the issue prior to the Feb. 18 story 'Pregnant in prison' by Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White. But now Hudak says she's convinced that there should be a statewide law prohibiting the practice..

The lesbian couple whose child was recently denied re-enrollment at the Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder is apparently not the first lesbian couple that had a child enrolled at the Catholic school. But it may be the last. Boulder resident Michelle Theall told Boulder Weekly that she and her partner had their son enrolled in preschool there until late last summer, when they withdrew the child after arranging a “closet baptism.”

It was at that January retreat that he says council members agreed there were too many “personal attacks” on council members, perhaps referring to the recent public spat between council members Lisa Morzel and Suzy Ageton over campaign contributions..

In an e-mail exchange, Boulder Weekly asked Jeanette De Melo, the director of communications for the Archdiocese of Denver, several questions that have been raised about the decision to keep a lesbian couple's child from re-enrolling at the Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder.

As more details emerge about the circumstances surrounding child of the lesbian couple who was denied re-enrollment at the Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder, local gay-rights advocates say they have been encouraged by the support they have received — especially from Catholics.

Several families who have students at the Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Boulder had their children at home today to protest the Catholic school’s decision to keep the child of a lesbian couple from re-enrolling next fall.

Toward the end of World War II, Sid Shafner was headed toward Munich with the U.S. Army’s 42nd Infantry Division when he and his reconnaissance detail spotted the church steeple of a German town that was labeled on their map as Dachau.

At one point during the Feb. 15 debate between Howard Dean and Karl Rove in Boulder, an audience member asked them to answer a question — without blaming the other side of the political aisle. It was a telling request and a sad commentary on the current state of our political system.