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Measure to close Boulder’s airport qualifies for November 2024 ballot
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Measure to close Boulder’s airport qualifies for November 2024 ballot

By John Herrick | Boulder Reporting Lab City of Boulder voters may soon decide whether to close the municipal airport for the first time in the city’s history.  Organizers with the ballot measure committee, Airport Neighborhood Campaign, have gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the November ballot to decommission the Boulder Municipal Airport “as soon as reasonably feasible,” city officials confirmed on June 13. A separate but related measure to redevelop the land into a “sustainable, mixed-use neighborhood” also qualified for the ballot, officials said.  “It’s just a wonderful feeling that our hard work paid off,” Laura Kaplan, a member of the city’s Planning Board and organizer with the ballot measure committee, told Boulder Reporting Lab.  READ THE FUL...
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A call to ban the sale of high-potency THC products in Boulder, amid rising teen mental health concerns
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A call to ban the sale of high-potency THC products in Boulder, amid rising teen mental health concerns

By Tim Drugan | Boulder Reporting Lab Avani Dilger, a licensed counselor specializing in addiction, has worked with young people in Boulder County for decades. She runs a private practice and Natural Highs, a nonprofit she founded to help teens choose alternatives to drugs and alcohol. Recently, she noticed a change in how local young people are affected by THC products as the potency of those products has risen.    Dilger has observed more Boulder teens developing dependencies on THC products, complete with withdrawal symptoms that manifest as mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. “We have never seen anything like this with people who use marijuana,” Dilger said. “I have worked for over 20 years with people who have used marijuana and who have g...
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Boulder’s largest homeless shelter hit maximum capacity during winter storm
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Boulder’s largest homeless shelter hit maximum capacity during winter storm

By John Herrick | Boulder Reporting Lab The Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, the city’s largest shelter in North Boulder, reached full capacity during Thursday night’s snowstorm. As a result, four people were turned away due to lack of capacity, a shelter official told Boulder Reporting Lab.  The shelter expanded its capacity to sleep 180 people during last week’s storm, which dumped about 18 inches of snow on parts of the City of Boulder, according to the National Weather Service. During such weather events, the shelter’s protocol is to increase its capacity to 180 from 160 people and remain open during the day to people who slept there the prior night. The shelter is typically closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., though a new day services center is expected to open th...
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