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On holding Biden’s feet to the fire, disproportionate policing, and white supremacists: the Colorado Capitol on Inauguration Day 2021

January 20, 2021 Like 0 De La Vaca

It was a strange morning. January 20th had been in progress since the midnight before and it was just after noon as I left I left my home in Erie and stopped by the local gas station for a cup…

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From De La Vaca’s Desk: A Very Merry Local Holiday to You

December 7, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

Happy Holidays, Boulder County! You might have noticed all the recent snowfall and realized, as we did, that winter is here. And, with winter comes the Festivus season, a time of giving and receiving. However you celebrate, there’s one thing…

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Brian “Wrecking” Ball – Ourticles: 20 Years of Yellow Scene

June 22, 2020 Like 0 editor

Brian Ball is the definition of a media Swiss Army Knife. The man can - and did - do it all. Hot headed and heavy handed, and also incredibly lazy by his own admission, he is one of the few…

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

June 10, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

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…

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Denver’s US Disctrict Court Rules Against State, Denver Police Department, in Use of Force Class Action Lawsuit

June 5, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

The judge in the case, Judge R. Brooke Jackson, requested language for a Temporary Restraining Order against the Denver Police Department. That language was provided and the ruling was issued this evening, dealing a severe blow - a clear reprimand…

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Denver Police Department, Alleges Police Violations

June 5, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

Class action lawsuit filed in response to police violence in Denver. We look forward to a world where no one is above the law. This class action lawsuit may be a great step in the right direction.

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Notes on YS, #theRona, and the CO response: #DeLaVacasDesk

April 13, 2020 Like 0 editor

Coronavirus - also called COVID-19 or #theRona - has ravaged the planet and a lackluster American response (based on a failed American capacity under the Trump administration) threatens to upend the US in more ways that I can delineate here.

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Fourth Generation: Catherine Long-Gates

January 2, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

A DiverCity conversation with a tenant farmer, a family farmer, who's been on her family's land essentially since birth. The death of the small farm in BOCO won't happen if she has any say in it. Not today. Not after…

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DiverCity Series: Shanna Henkel – It Takes a Village

October 6, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

A DiverCity conversation with the woman who runs the Village, creates community, and counts on the continuation of conversation across generations, all while keeping Boulder fed in the great greasy spoon tradition. You know it: 890 sq. ft. of reality…

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#GlobalClimateStrike BOCO: Earth v Eradication

September 20, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

Responding to the call of 16 year old Greta Sundberg of Sweden, an entire planet of hopeful, tired, terrified activists and protectors mobilized to call for action to avert climate catastrophe. The world showed up today, to stare down eradication…