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Behind the News
Why Are Suicides More Common in the West?When Hunter S. Thompson shot himself to death on February 20th, he became one of five suicide deaths in the Roaring Fork Valley in the span of just two months. In fact, the West has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in the rate of suicides. [more]
Counterpoint
I Don’t LUV Your SUVLast week Courtney Lowery asked us not to hate her for driving a gas guzzling SUV. Today, Christie Aschwanden takes the bait. [more]
Grandpa in the Tuff Shed
Frozen Dead Guy Days Return
Events begin today in Nederland's fourth annual Frozen Dead Guy Days. FDGD are held in honor of the mountain town's resident frozen dead guy, Bredo Morstøl, also known as Grandpa in the Tuff Shed. Morstøl kicked the bucket in Norway back in 1989, but his grandson Trygve Bauge arranged to have Grandpa cryogenically frozen and shipped to Nederland, where Bauge was residing at the time. [more]
Boulder City Council
Ageton Wins Council SeatSuzy Ageton has won the race to fill the Boulder City Council seat vacated by Will Toor, who left to become a Boulder County Commissioner. Ageton collected 4871 votes (36 percent of the vote) to handily beat Lisa Morzel's 27 percent share. [more]
Dog Doo
Karmic Turding: Another Likely Excuse?One pundit suggests that dog turds be exchanged and banked a la pollution credits. Is this the solution to the dog poo problem, or just another excuse for leaving turds on the trail? [more]
Believe Tyler?
Local Hero Faces Blood Doping ChargesBelieve Tyler. That's what countless cycling fans want to do, and the US Anti-Doping Agency is soon to decide if they too will believe that the drug test that snared Boulder cyclist Tyler Hamilton is as flawed as he insists. [more]
Urban Land Use
Open Space Plan Sparks DebateLast week, the city of Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks Board of Trustees voted 4-1 to approve the Visitor Master Plan (VMP), a management plan that will determine how the city's 40,000 acres of open space will be administered. Boulder voters have long supported open space acquisition, but the VMP has split open space advocates into two camps. On one side, stand those who favor a policy that sets preserving habitat and protecting native species as its highest priority. But those fighting the VMP say that the plan unfairly limits access to open space. [more]
