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Call Off the Dogs
You know you’re at a Boulder County dog park, when the dog humping your dog is wearing a hunter green organic wool sweater on a 60-degree spring day.
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Review: Harold’s Restaurant
Don’t be fooled by the attached Best Western hotel: Harold’s is a cool place. You’ll know it as soon as you walk in and are presented with your choice of sitting in the dining room or the lounge, known as…
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Unique Electives
In an interview in October, State Board of Education member Angelika Schroeder pondered the importance of teaching students to be better prepared to enter the workforce. It used to be, she said, that kids who weren’t so good at math…
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Square Pegs
At first glance, Catalyst High School, tucked away in a nondescript office park in Lafayette, looks like a dentist’s office. Or a place that sells car insurance. Or even a paper company like Dunder Mifflin. What it doesn’t look like…
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Ballot issues
It’s well known that taxes and death are the only certainties in life, but in Colorado, add another inevitability—the need to vote on ballot issues that 90 percent of the time are asking you to raise taxes on yourself. So…
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Smart Teachers: Andre Adeli
Andre Adeli Boulder Prep: Principal & civics Andre Adeli’s summer school civics class at Boulder Prep High School is weird. The students call Adeli, who is both a teacher and the headmaster of the Gunbarrel charter, by his first name.…
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