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Legal ease

June 12, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

Consider this list of notorious newsmakers: CU professor Ward Churchill, anti-tax crusader and convicted tax dodger Douglas Bruce, “Balloon Boy” parents Richard and Mayumi Henne, the Hell’s Angels, Boulder critic and City Council stripper Seth Brigham, the Rainbow Family and…

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The trending topic of the election season: Your opinion

June 12, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Remember Mitt Romney out there in Fort Lupton chuckling in a reporter’s face about what an ignorant boob she was for asking him questions about civil unions and medical marijuana? “Don’t you have anything of significance you want to ask?”…

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Diamonds in the rough

June 12, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

You don’t have to be a golfer for long to realize the truth behind the old saying that the game is nothing more than a good walk spoiled, even if you’ve never walked 18 holes in your life and wouldn’t…

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The month in review, May 2012

June 11, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Actor Mark Ruffalo lauded Erie mothers who formed the anti-fracking group Erie Rising, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney visited Northern Colorado to deliver a stump speech to oil and gas workers. In his continuing effort to prove he’s the…

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How to predict a drought

June 11, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

No major rivers flow into Colorado, meaning that all of the water used here—for everything from filling the swimming pool to watering the lawn—comes from the mountain snowpack. But what if, like this year, the normally snowiest month of March…

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These are not the drones you’re looking for

June 11, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

On Monday, May 14, a corporate jet flying 8,000 feet over Cherry Creek nearly collided with an unknown object. The pilot called air traffic control to report that something that looked like a small aircraft passed him going the other…

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Doug Bruce comes out of jail swinging

June 4, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Is there any end to the can’t-look-away spectacle that is Douglas Bruce, anti-tax crusader and convicted tax evader? Apparently not. Fresh out of jail after serving 104 days on a tax-dodging conviction, he wasted no time finding some reporters to…

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Atheists to begin lobbying efforts in Colorado next month

May 30, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

Good Lord, here come the atheists. Politically active nonbelievers are most known for making headlines for provocative billboards and side-of-the-bus advertising—the most recent, displayed in Boulder in January, said “God is an imaginary friend”—but they’re hoping to get more organized…

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A wild ride for civil liberties

May 16, 2012 Like 0 Greg Campbell

It’s been a long, strange couple of days on the liberty and freedom beat. Down at the state Capitol, the mixed messages were that the Republicans will stoop to any level of political trickery to ensure that same-sex couples can’t…

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Happy Feet

May 14, 2012 Like 1 Greg Campbell

My high school track career came to an end on the second day of practice, with a well-timed but poorly acted sprawl across the roots of a tree. I didn’t have to fake the hobbling because both of my knees…