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The $17,000 Question

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

Jim Mitchell strolls through the huge estate that is the campus of Alexander Dawson School. It looks and feels more like a small, private college than a K-12 prepatory school and can take the better part of an afternoon to…

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Emotional Cleanup

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

Pam Mains was hunting with her husband, some other family and friends in southern Colorado when her cell phone rang on the morning of Nov. 17, 2003. What she heard dropped Mains to her knees in the middle of a…

Locally Incorrect

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We didn’t need Forbes Magazine to tell us something that pretty much every Boulderite will freely admit—Boulder is the smartest town in the country. Where else can you get your espresso served to you by an MBA or your meals…

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Boulder’s Vodka Barons

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Matthew Baris is to the hard stuff what Charlie Papazian is to beer. When President Jimmy Carter made brewing beer at home legal in 1978, it opened the creative and entrepreneurial floodgates for the astounding variety and quality of craft…

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Check Out: Nickel Street

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

Cruising along Highway 287 near U.S. 36 in Broomfield, it’s easy to drive right past this hidden hodgepodge of local business gems. Well, next time you’re in the area, take a side trip for lunch, shopping or some tropical flowers.

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The End Could be Near

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

Judging by falling readership numbers nationwide, there likely will be little outcry if the Rocky Mountain News goes out of business. The Rocky, the state’s oldest newspaper, is up for sale in an extremely poor market.

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A Good Problem to Have

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For the first time in recent memory, St. Vrain Valley School officials are figuring out what they want to do with some extra money. Finally. Initial priorities: shrink class sizes, hire more teachers and improve school buildings.

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Rural Surroundings Preserved

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Walk around the Alexander Dawson School campus and you get the feeling its students are rarely left wanting. School officials, however, do want more. Forty-two thousand, nine hundred and ten square feet to be exact.

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Ease Up on Contributions

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

Longmont wants to put the kibosh on hefty campaign contributions by local organizations and special interests. The city council is exploring new limits that would cap individual campaign donations to $200 and those by organizations to $500. This would not…

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So, Who Won?

December 18, 2008 Like 0 editor

A jury says Boulder County Commissioners imposed a substantial burden on religious exercises by denying a proposal to double the size of 128,000-square-foot Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot. The jury also says the commissioners did not discriminate against the…