Tag: University Of Colorado
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Colorado’s job growth slows, though economists don’t anticipate a recession
Preliminary estimates show Colorado’s job growth slowed more than expected this year and 2026 could also see slower growth, according to the annual economic outlook from the Business Research Division at the University of Colorado Boulder released Monday. But sluggish growth doesn’t mean there will be a recession in 2026, economists said. Employment in the…
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Dick Saunders, founder of Saunders Construction, dies at 85
Richard “Dick” Saunders, who founded Englewood-based Saunders Construction, Inc. and led it to become one of the top-five commercial construction firms in Colorado, died on Friday. He was 85. Saunders, who founded the company in his home basement in 1972, had served as its CEO until 2001. He continued until 2020 as chairman of the…
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Robert Redford remembered at Boulder’s The Sink as former janitor
Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, was once a janitor at The Sink in Boulder, leaving behind a legacy and a caricature on the wall for all who eat there. Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of…
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Boulder man sentenced after selling drugs to teenager who fell off of a crane
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge sentenced a 25-year-old man to 35 years in prison after he was convicted of selling psilocybin mushrooms to minors, with one falling from a crane while being under the influence of the drugs. Boulder District Judge Dea Lindsey sentenced Benjamin Harmon to…
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Justin Schwartz Q&A on his first year as chancellor of CU Boulder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save University of Colorado Boulder’s Chancellor Justin Schwartz just completed his first year in the high-profile role. Coming to the university in July 2024, Schwartz replaced longtime chancellor Phil DiStefano, who served as chancellor for 15 years — the longest in CU Boulder history. Before coming to…
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‘I felt this sense of peace’: Amid CBI lab scandal, Colorado man gives first interview since release from prison
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Michael Clark awoke with a start at his usual time, just after 5 a.m., his eyes adjusting to the darkness, his brain gauging the surroundings that felt familiar yet also somehow foreign. What struck him most that first morning was the quiet. It had never…
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Federal judge sides with CU in former student’s retaliation lawsuit
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A federal judge concluded last month that a former University of Colorado medical student failed to establish the school unlawfully retaliated against her, as the evidence instead showed faculty raised numerous concerns about her conduct over the years. Mindy Szeto was enrolled in CU’s School of Medicine between 2014 and 2020, through a program combining…
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1,000 people protest NOAA cuts in Boulder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save About a thousand people, many of them retirees who had worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, gathered Monday in Boulder to protest last week’s firings of federal government employees. The protesters were at the intersection of Broadway Street and Rayleigh Road, near the…
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Fire at off-campus student residence near CU Boulder displaces 7 students
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A building fire at an off-campus student residence in Boulder on Sunday morning has left seven students displaced, according to Boulder Fire Rescue. The fire ignited early Sunday morning at 1215 12th St. near Broadway and Pleasant Street, at an off-campus residence near the University of Colorado campus. No injuries are reported. Boulder Fire Rescue…