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Boulder County History: Lincoln Hills established for African American outdoor recreation in the 1920s

Today we think of the great outdoors as open to everyone, but in the Jim Crow Era African Americans were not welcome at resorts and other places of recreation.

Peace Train: What’s so great about the START Treaty?

I camped at Teal Lake in the Park Range to photograph fall colors, but I also enjoyed the ospreys that were hunting trout and the numerous leopard frogs at the lakeshore. Teal Lake is like many other lakes, ponds and marshes in that the leopard frogs, Rana pipiens (or Lithobates pipiens), come in two colors, brown or green.

Natural Selections: Why do leopard frogs come in two colors?

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Firestone vet helps others with home-buying struggles

To Sean Selters, it's "not a far stretch," to think that he would get involved helping veterans.

Peace Train: After eight years, ceremony holds sway over substance of Fukushima fallout

“The visit was more ceremony than substance,” CBS relayed on President Donald Trump's recent visit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. There certainly seemed to be a lot of “pomp and circumstance,” as there did in Trump's visit to Great Britain, and it set me to wondering how much in our world these days has a glossy sort of ceremony...

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Peace Train: Premetheus, maybe a god for our times?

The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, in partnership with the Joanna Macy Center of Naropa University, will present Ridley Scott's science-fiction film “Prometheus” in the Sycamore building on the Naropa campus at 7 p.m. Feb. 13.

Opinion

Boulder County History: Lincoln Hills established for African American outdoor recreation in the 1920s

Peace Train: What’s so great about the START Treaty?

Natural Selections: Why do leopard frogs come in two colors?

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Boulder County History: 'Miner Tom' Hendricks 'went over the range'

Peace Train: The West and crimes against Palestinians

Peace Train: Class, race and capitalist punishment

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Firestone vet helps others with home-buying struggles

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Peace Train: After eight years, ceremony holds sway over substance of Fukushima fallout

Peace Train: Compassion should be our cornerstone

Peace Train: American empire produces imperialist hubris

Peace Train: Space should be the world’s peaceful commons

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Peace Train: Premetheus, maybe a god for our times?

Wicked Gravity: Fallen star, Katie Brown, shines new light

Peace Train: Is the U.S. a civilized nation?

Peace Train: The open Christmas letter