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1 week ago | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Boulder County’s Senior Property Tax Worker Program was designed to help financially struggling older homeowners offset their annual county property taxes by working part-time county jobs. But as inflation soars, property taxes rise and homeowners insurance premiums spike, the need for a functional program has never been greater — and the current one isn’t keeping up.
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1 month ago | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Downtown’s Boulder Theater has been a city treasure for 90 years, but recently, its striking Art Deco facade has been in danger of crumbling from water damage. Now, a new fundraising campaign is underway to restore it. The “Save the Face” campaign, spearheaded by Historic Boulder, has already raised most of the approximately $500,000 needed, with half of the projected repair costs covered by in-house and corporate donations, as well as a Colorado State Historical Fund grant.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
There aren’t many old-time barbershops left like Alpine Barbers, located at 1215 Alpine Ave. in North Boulder’s Ideal shopping center. When it closes on Oct. 25 after losing its lease, Boulder will have one fewer place where someone can just walk in without an appointment and walk out with a simple, clean, traditional cut.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Sometimes it seems that every time you turn around in Boulder, one restaurant closes and another opens. The latest to venture onto Boulder’s dicey restaurant scene is Cozobi Fonda Fina at 909 Walnut Street, in the space that was briefly occupied by Oaxaca-themed Masas & Agaves. Cozobi owner and chef Johnny Curiel took over Masas’ lease in late May, naming his new restaurant after the god of corn in Mexico’s indigenous Zapotec language to highlight the importance of corn in his menu.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
A gourmet vegan restaurant, Avant Garden Bistro, may be opening in Boulder by late spring or early summer, located in part of the space formerly occupied by The Mediterranean Restaurant on Walnut Street. ”Construction is complete. It’s just a matter of licensing and permitting,” said Greg Topel, CEO of Boulder’s EVG Hospitality, which holds the long-term managing contract for the owner, New York’s Overthrow Hospitality.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Children in North Boulder’s Wildwood neighborhood have been playing on the same wooden playset for more than 40 years. Parents say the swings aren’t safe: The slats are rotting and children are getting splinters. But when the 32-home homeowner association tried to replace it, they say they ran into such a bureaucratic buzzsaw from the city that they ultimately abandoned the project — and still have an unsafe playset 16 months later with no resolution.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Even the bloodless, dry statistics are chilling: Americans owned 393 million firearms in 2017 that were held in 81.4 million hands, says American Gun Facts.com, an aggregator of firearm statistics. Those weapons are in 46% of households, and were used in 20,958 murders in 2021, plus 26,328 suicides. But sometimes those weapons are no longer wanted. The owner might be concerned about children finding the gun. A person no longer hunts. Someone feels they can’t handle a gun safely anymore.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Just six weeks after closing, downtown Boulder’s Ash’Kara restaurant reopened last weekend as a sports bar dubbed The Sophomore, launching just as bars whooped following the Colorado-Nebraska football game. “That was fun timing to open a sports bar when CU is doing what CU is doing,” triumphing 36 to 14. “All of town was full,” said lead partner Josh Dinar, who co-owned Ash’Kara as well.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
A settlement was reached Monday between Boulder Community Health and UnitedHealthcare in a contract dispute that had threatened in-network health care coverage for more than 13,000 Boulder County policyholders. The multiyear agreement “ensures continued, uninterrupted access to Boulder Community Health’s hospital and its physicians” for those covered by UHC’s employer health insurance plans, Medicare Advantage, group retiree plans and dual special needs plans, said a UHC spokeswoman.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
boulderreportinglab.org | Sally Bell |Stacy Feldman
Some 18,000 Boulder Community Health patients insured by UnitedHealthcare will be scrambling for new doctors and medical facilities come Oct. 1, unless the disputing sides agree on a new contract by then. Policies won’t be canceled, but failing to agree would leave affected members paying hefty out-of-network charges for all BCH care, according to spokespeople for each side.
