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Governor’s Order on Ballot Initiatives Highlights Justice Inequities – Community Corner

The pandemic is providing a lens through which inequity is plainly visible for all to see. Essential workers earning survival wages are dying so we can go to the supermarket, e.g., and Governor Polis has made highly visible public proclamations that attempt to balance safety with the need to pretend capitalism is a worthy economic system.

Denver’s Protests: The First Few Days [Images]

These images were captured by our editor, De La Vaca, over the course of several days of #DenverProtest coverage. He had to cease coverage because, as part of the Denver Police Department's documented, unnecessary assaults on peaceful protests and targeting of journalists and media, he was shot in the groin by a well aimed rubber bullet.

Progress v Politics: Where is our Petition System? – Community Corner: Spring 2020

In 2018, Boulder voters approved collecting digital petition signatures. This would have provided a solution to the current conundrum, but staff have eschewed an open source, free software solution and instead have been working towards a software solution that would cost the city between $250,000 and $500,000 to license.

Community Corner – It’s the end of the world as we know it…

...And we all feel fine. At least the vast majority of us did, until or unless we had been reading about needing to flatten the curve representing COVID-19 cases vs. time. American healthcare, long in the headlines, is now in the spotlight because unless the rate of illness contraction doesn’t, well, contract, our hospitals will soon be overwhelmed.

Second and Twentieth Judicial District Attorneys Beth McCann and Michael Dougherty joined in a recent friend of the court (amicus) brief submission to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. According to the brief, they join 55 other “current and former District and

Community Corner: Darkest Before the Dawn?

If the truism that it is always darkest before the dawn holds up, local and national government policy on homelessness must soon see positive change. Current policy across the country has indeed gotten darker, from Trump vilifying people experiencing homelessness for causing harm to those seeking “prestigious real estate” and placing “real-life horror” Robert Marbut in the role of

Community Corner: Protect & Serve or Arrest & Torture?

SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA! The recent lawsuit Lauren Gotthelf filed for excessive use of force in Boulder County Jail is buttressed by video evidence of her being tased while strapped to a chair and placed on suicide watch. In

Month in Review: September 2019 – Yellow Scene Magazine

Boulder banned flavored e-cigarettes. The city finalized plans for new restrictions on e-cigarettes. Stores can no longer sell flavored e-cigarette juice. In addition, Boulder wants to use a ballot measure in November to increase taxes on legal e-cigarette products by 40 percent. Boulder also increased the legal age to purchase nicotine or tobacco products to 21. * Guests secretly

Acme pad highlights information gap between O&G workers and residents

By Rachel Balkcom, Erie resident At a meeting a couple of weeks ago with Crestone Peak Resources about Acme, a 30-well project the company has proposed in the middle of my 35-year-old residential neighborhood, I spoke with environmental engineers, a number of external affairs folks, and even a Vice President of Environmental Affairs dressed down for the occasion. I asked an engineer a

Smart Directory – Yellow Scene Magazine

Schools Art Parlando School for the Arts, 303-442-0006, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, www.parlando.org Tara Performing Arts High School, 303-440-4510, 4180 19th St., Boulder, www.tarahighschool.org Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, 303-753-6046, 1600 Pierce St., Denver, http://www.rmcad.edu Charter Aspen Ridge Preparatory School, 720-242-6225, 705 Austin Ave., Erie

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