Do your actions reflect what you care about? In the final episode of Community Returns, I pose this question to listeners and share 2 orgs that enable support of local business and sustainable food. Feat. Jonathan Woodard Maura Dudley @petergenuardi Tara Calihman communityreturns.show/p/do-your-acti…

I'm one of the many who decided to change careers during the pandemic. The clarity some of us have found has led us to consider living life differently and the change in attitudes around work gives me lots of hope. coloradosun.com/2022/01/10/col…

West Pearl street has been “temporarily” closed during COVID to allow for outdoor dining. After 2 years, what should we do with the closure of West Pearl St.? (Comments welcome) #boulder #bouldercolorado

I set out in 2016 to grasp why the border wall appealed to so many Americans. In a society built on countless everyday walls of indifference, I learned as an ethnographer, empathy will remain an elusive hope. A new feature essay in The Guardian. theguardian.com/global/2022/ja…

New: Important story by John Herrick Boulder Reporting Lab, in collaboration with Colorado News Collaborative (COLab). 👇 Amid a worker shortage, Boulder's Mental Health Partners has shut down the county's only dedicated 24/7 weekend walk-in crisis center and cut hours during weekdays. boulderreportinglab.org/2022/02/09/bou…

Libraries = happiness! You can help add more library-based love to the world by adding your name to the list of people endorsing a library district: boulderlibrarychampions.org/endorsers #LibraryDistrictYes #Boulder

If you're wondering how #RHEA4CO is doing during #COLeg, check this out! 👇🏽 This morning we're at the Senate Judiciary hearing where we will be testifying once more to #PassRHEANow ✨ Listen here: sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00327/Harmony/…

If you are hiking or recreating near NCAR please EVACUATE NOW! Boulder OSMP are in the area evacuating hikers and all folks they find. Please RT #NCARfire #boulder

Together with our community partners, we're organizing a March for Reproductive Health Rights for Saturday, 5/14 at 9 a.m. at the Boulder Court House on Pearl Street. Join us to raise your voices to protect the rights of women everywhere! Register now: bit.ly/2022ReproRight…

Update: I'm still super mad that there will be no RTD buses to the start of the BOLDERBoulder 10K and I'm sending emails!

The “breastfeeding is free” narrative in the midst of an infant formula shortage is a great example of public ignorance of what it actually takes to successfully breastfeed.

#Boulder friends who are registered voters! Please go sign the library district petition TODAY (5/12) at the Rayback!

Have you signed our petition yet? Join us outside of the Main library (1001 Arapahoe Ave) tomorrow, between 10am-12pm, where we'll be collecting signatures! Let's get #LibraryDistrictYES on the ballot, #Boulder

Front Range folks: If you keep hearing about This Is [Not] Who We Are but haven't seen it yet, there is a screening this Weds (5/25) at 7pm at The Dairy Arts Center ($15): thedairy.org/event/this-is-…

The phenomenon called "the shyness of the crown" where the trees incredibly avoid touching.

“NIMBYs and overpopulation alarmists share a sense that the world is too full, that their communities are for the people who already live there[…]in doing so, they create the world they imagine: unacceptable rates of homelessness, a country lagging far behind its peers…”

Local gun ordinances - like those Boulder City Council will vote on this week - are mostly symbolic. We should pass them anyway. What a time to write about gun violence prevention with my fellow boulder beat opinion panelists: boulderbeat.news/2022/06/04/bbo…

.TSA I imagine thousands of breast pumps and formula go through airports every day. Why does my shit have to be examined every time I travel?? Is it possible for the US government to not inconvenience moms all the time??

Hello #Boulder! I want to help make our community more affordable, more #inclusive, and safer—especially for families and kids. More on my campaign for City Council at ryanforboulder.com. Ballots are due by 7:00pm on Tuesday, November 7.