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‘Really scared and extremely angry’: Why Colorado students are walking out...

By Erica Meltzer, Ann Schimke, Melanie Asmar and Yesenia Robles, Chalkbeat Colorado   They want this time to be different. Whether they’re walking out of school on Wednesday to call for...

¯_(ツ)_/¯, call your office

Something is happening. We don't know how long it will last. Or how big it might get. Or whether it will make any difference, at least,...

¯_(ツ)_/¯, call your office

Something is happening. We don't know how long it will last. Or how big it might get. Or whether it will make any difference, at least,...

Anti-fracking activists: Give us back local control

Hundreds of activists and families from across Colorado gathered in Thornton Saturday to protest hydraulic fracturing near schools and neighborhoods. Braving gray skies and frigid temperatures, demonstrators used...

Adams County residents feel shut out of fracking conversation

Many Adams County residents support a 10-month moratorium on fracking. Oil and gas industry representatives say a temporary ban would hurt the local economy. Anti-fracking...

Reader’s view: Boulder’s “Bike Lives Matter” trivializes racial injustice

Biking to work a few days ago in Boulder, I was greeted by signs proclaiming that “bike lives matter” along a controversial section of...

Beyond pot: Drug reformers demand end of criminalization

“We are the people that love drugs, we are the people that hate drugs, and we are the people that don’t give a damn about drugs, but every one of us thinks the war on drugs is wrong, wrong, wrong!”

WATCH: CU students gearing up for the elections?

BOULDER -- The youth vote that helped sweep President Barack Obama and a wave of Democrats into office in 2008 may not have the...

Justice Delayed

Think globally and act locally. Denver activists will be taking the mantra to heart this Friday, when they rally in front of the Guatemalan...