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Are Your Gadgets Killing You?new

What’s a health-conscious consumer to believe? Are our cellular gadgets killing us? Or can we continue with business as usual?

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 04-26-2010 | Science

Tags: Blackberry, ipad, iPhone

Colorado's Budget Shortfall Forces Prison and Parole Reformsnew

The state's $318 million budget shortfall may succeed in accomplishing something that activists have been working to achieve for a decade -- reform in the state's criminal justice system.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 08-31-2009 | Crime & Justice

Tags: Colorado, parole, economic issues, state budgets, criminal justice

How to Become More Medically Self-Sufficientnew

Dr. Charley Cropley shares five key things we can all do to take our health care into our own hands in order to improve the quality of our own lives, decrease our need for medical treatment and thus reduce our dependence on the health-care system.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 06-15-2009 | Science

Tags: food, health care, health, self-sufficiency

Boulder Struggles to Balance Conservation with Recreationnew

Boulder's draft Grasslands Ecosytem Management Plan was lauded by conservationists as a long overdue effort to inventory the city's grasslands and investigate the threats those lands face. But the document has drawn fire from a coalition of recreationists who believe that the plan exhibits an "anti-trail" bias.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 03-16-2009 | Environment

Tags: environment, Boulder, grassland

Criminalizing Journalism at the RNCnew

Dozens of reporters were arrested while covering the Republican National Convention. What does that mean for America?

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 09-15-2008 | Media

Tags: protests, media, arrests, Amy Goodman, Republican National Convention, I-Witness Video

Talented and Gifted Children Need Special Help in the Classroomnew

When most people think of "special-needs" students, they think of students with learning disabilities, kids with physical or developmental problems that make it difficult for them to keep up with their peers. But kids who are unusually intelligent need extra help, too.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 08-25-2008 | Education

Tags: Education, gifted students, special-needs, teaching

Looking at the Implications of Colorado's Proposed Anti-Choice Amendmentnew

If voters pass Amendment 48 in November, the Colorado Constitution will be changed so that even a pronuclear embryo -- a single-celled, newly fertilized human egg -- will have the same rights and protections as a fully developed, living, breathing human being. The so-called "Personhood Amendment," an initiative placed on the ballot by anti-abortion extremists, would impact not only abortion, experts say, but also a broad range of issues pertaining to women's health from access to contraception to infertility treatment to the flexibility doctors have in treating pregnant women.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 08-04-2008 | Sex

Tags: religion, Colorado, ballot initiatives, Abortion, reproductive rights, women's issues, Health & Science, sex & reproductive issues, Amendment 48, embryos

Giving Depressed Teens Another Chance at Happiness and Lifenew

When Jeff Lamontagne and other members of his church held a walk to raise money to enable students who were depressed and at risk of suicide to receive psychological treatment five years ago, they had no idea that they'd taken the first steps toward establishing a nonprofit that would become a model for suicide prevention nationwide.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 05-19-2008 | Science

Tags: mental health, suicide, Colorado, treatment, Depression, teenagers, psychology, Health & Science, The Second Wind Fund

Is Nuclear Energy Really Cheap or Clean?new

Behind the seeming swell of interest in nuclear energy is a well-funded lobbying effort that has funneled millions into Congress and the Bush administration, earning billions in subsidies for itself -- as well as a preferential treatment during Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy talks.

Boulder Weekly | Pamela White | 05-05-2008 | Environment

Tags: environment, nuclear energy, lobbying, nuclear power