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The Heroes: Veterans of Boulder County
What Does it Mean When We Say: “Thank You for Your Service”? We spoke with military veterans for this installment of The Heroes.
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Capitol Hill is Lined With Illegal, Anti-Homeless Fences. The City Won’t Remove Them.
In the Capitol Hill neighborhood, public sidewalks, tree lawns and patches of grass are blocked with orange, mesh safety fences typically used for construction. But Rocky Mountain PBS found several instances of these fences being used to keep tents and…
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Warren Village
Guest Contribution, By Athena Landy I am so lucky to have been chosen for the opportunity to live at Warren Village. Founded in 1974, after seeing an influx of single-parent families in poverty and homelessness, as well as experiencing domestic…
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Banned, On The Run
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Sentinel Colorado and was shared via AP StoryShare. By Carina Julig & Max Levy, Staff Writers As Aurora ban on homeless camping gears up, opposition continues amid scant details Between the golf club…
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Darren O’Connor, Activist Lawyer: There For Those Who Need Him, and For Those Who Don’t
Darren has long been a voice of the unhoused, being a relentless thorn in the City of Boulder’s side. For years he has advocated for them to take a more compassionate approach to helping people. He helped found and serves…
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Plainly Evident: No Room at the Inn | Community Corner
Boulder city staff are committed to reducing the number of beds available at shelter services, and they are not going to let a little thing like a forthcoming wave of evictions resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic affect their decisions.
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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…
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Activists Among Us: [A Few of] The People Making BOCO the Best it Can Be
It’s all fun and games ’till they put up a toxic well in your backyard, or the new American Gestapo kidnaps a neighbor. These activists are fighting for the BOCO we all want and deserve. Malala Yousafzai once said, “I…
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Month in Review: November
Election results are in. Colorado had a blue wave: Democrats won all major statewide offices. In contrast to the #CoBlueWave, voters rejected education & transportation funding and 2,500-foot setbacks. Additionally, Boulder County voters approved millions for a new “alternative sentencing…
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Preventable Losses: The War On The Homeless In Boulder
It was an interesting night at Boulder City Council’s first meeting of the new year. Tempers were up and concerns were heightened over the Christmas Day death of Benjamin Harvey, a Texas transplant who became homeless and passed, alone and…
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