Category: Boulder

A Rainy Day in Boulder

Staring at the four walls of my hotel room wasn’t an option on a recent rainy day in Boulder, Colorado. I had to get out. A rain jacket and a sense of adventure coupled with internet access and a good map had me heading out to explore. I was only one block away from the…


Flying Bicycles, Classic Cars, and More Surprise Visitors to Boulder

“Stop the car!” I barked. My startled husband yanked our rental car to the side of the road. Lucky for me, he has a good sense of humor and was able to understand my urgency when I explained that I thought I had just seen a bicycle fly through the air. A quick reverse up…


A Weekend in Beautiful Boulder

“If only these walls could talk,” I said to my husband as we relaxed in our Victorian room on the fifth floor of the Boulderado Hotel in downtown Boulder, Colorado. We had been trundled up five floors in the original Otis elevator that has served the hotel since its opening on New Year’s Eve 1908…


Photographer Has a Feeling He’s Being Watched—Then Snaps Owl Spying on Him From Behind Boulder

This owl is no Hoot-dini as he attempts to hide behind a rock but is clearly not succeeding in staying unseen. The little owl’s bright yellow eyes are quite visible peering over a rock on Holcombe Moor, Lancashire, in northwestern England. Martin Loftus, 39, who lives in Bury, Greater Manchester, recalls feeling like he was…


Colorado Democrats Introduce 3 New Gun-Control Bills After Boulder Shooting

Democrats in Colorado’s legislature have introduced three new gun-control measures in recent days after the mass shooting at a Boulder supermarket that left 10 dead. “There’s nothing we can do to bring back the lives that were stolen from us. There’s no single policy we can pass that can guarantee no more lives will be…


Accused Colorado Mass Shooter Faces Additional Charges

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 21-year-old man accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket last month with nearly four dozen additional counts of attempted murder, assault, and weapons offenses, court documents showed. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was already charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder stemming…


Corporate Media Coverage of CO and GA Shootings Crystallizes Its Corruption

Commentary The very corporate media that presents itself as the ultimate arbiter of truth, and sworn enemy of disinformation, has, in the last week gone to great lengths to reveal to the world just how brittle this façade is. Its coverage of the shootings in Georgia and Colorado has brought into stark relief its true…


Colorado Shooting Suspect Makes First Court Appearance, Lawyer Says He Has Mental Illness

The man suspected of killing 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on March 22 made his first court appearance on Thursday. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, is dealing with mental issues, defense lawyer Kathryn Herold told Boulder District Court Judge Thomas Mulvahill. “Our position is that we cannot do anything…


‘She Was Vibrant’: Family, Friends Remember Victims of Boulder Shooting

Family members and other loved ones are memorializing the 10 people killed in the March 22 mass shooting in Colorado. Rikki Olds, 25, was one of three workers at King Soopers in Boulder, the site of the shooting, to lose their lives. “She was vibrant, she was bubbly. Rikki was kind of the light of…


Time to Stand Up for the Second Amendment More Than Ever

Commentary “Rahm Emanuel, call your office. You said it—‘Never let a serious crisis go to waste!’ And we got one, baby—two white supremacists shooting up the joint in Atlanta and Boulder. The president’s into it already. Bye-bye assault weapons and those thousand round mags Hollywood lefties love to show off in their movies. We might…