AltWeeklies Wire
Behind the Curtainnew

An inside look at the oil & gas industry/Republican ‘REDPRINT’ for turning Colorado from Blue to Red.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
09-17-2015 |
Energy
America's Dirtiest Secretnew

The oil and gas industry's contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge |
03-17-2014 |
Environment
Boulder County Floods: What's in the Water?new

A look at potential flood-related impacts on human health and the environment.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
09-26-2013 |
Environment
NSA Surveillance Started Long Before 9/11 and the Patriot Actnew

Why was the NSA creating intrusive domestic spy programs in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks or the creation of the Patriot Act?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer, David Accomazzo and Jefferson Dodge |
06-21-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: Edward Snowden
GMOs vs. Local Food Systemnew

Is Boulder County government depriving its economy of millions of dollars by making the wrong choice on open space lands?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge |
03-22-2013 |
Economy
Waste Injection Wells: The Earth's Invisible Dumpnew

With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected under the surface of the Earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge |
09-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: toxic waste, waste
Monsanto's Point of No Returnnew

Is it too late to save our food supply from a business model gone mad? While many worry over Monsanto's use of genetically modified seeds, the food supply giant has very rapidly gained control of the seed market. It's becoming difficult or impossible to find seed of any kind that isn't sold by Monsanto.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
08-31-2012 |
Business & Labor
Motive Behind the Madness in the Sikh Shootingnew

What led to the recent mass murder of Sikhs in Wisconsin.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
08-10-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Fracking Lessonsnew

What everyone in gasland can learn from the decade-long fight in Pavillion, Wyo.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
06-01-2012 |
Environment
Unzippednew

For years, political gadfly Seth Brigham got away with being a persistent, even belligerent, bug in the ears of Boulder city council. But he didn't get slapped with a restraining order until he started nosing around the undisclosed financial ties of city council members.
Boulder Weekly |
Jeeferson Dodge and Joel Dyer |
05-18-2012 |
Civil Liberties
First Amendment — 1, Colorado University — 0new

For more than 20 years, the annual 4/20 event on the Colorado University campus came and went pretty much without incident. There is really no reason to think that this year would have been any different had those who run the University not decided to make it different, but they did, and it was.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
04-27-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Valmont Butte's Got a Dam Problemnew

Suspect actions on the part of the EPA and State of Colorado in their testing and analysis of potential pathways to human exposure from Allied Chemical's Valmont Butte Mill site.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
03-02-2012 |
Environment
Ronald Reagan and the Largest EPA Scandal in Historynew

President Ronald Reagan's controversial environmental policies may explain why Valmont Butte is still contaminated.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
02-17-2012 |
Environment
The Ghosts of Valmont Buttenew

Ever since the city of Boulder purchased its Valmont Butte property, city taxpayers have been picking up the tab to pay for the environmental sins committed by more than a century’s worth of long-departed users at the site. And that tab may be getting bigger as more ghosts from the property’s past continue to reveal themselves.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller |
01-26-2012 |
Environment
Behind the GMO Curtainnew

Big Ag threatens war on Boulder, Colorado.
Boulder Weekly |
Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer |
12-15-2011 |
Environment