James Burky

How Boulder County residents can properly identify and report ICE activity Advocates say that proper ICE reports will help those targeted by the agency.

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U.S. Supreme Court will hear landmark Boulder climate change case at request of Suncor, ExxonMobil “The lawsuit aims to ensure that the corporations that caused the harm pay their fair share, rather than shifting the burden to Colorado communities,” Boulder officials said Monday.

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a landmark Boulder climate change case at request of Suncor, ExxonMobil

Latest from myself and Elise Schmelzer with the Denver Post

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Roses are red, M. Night Shyamalan loves a good twist

freddy removing the super bowl mask to reveal thursday night football

BREAKING: The Nederland Board of Trustees vote unanimously to approve the $120M purchase of Eldora ski resort, capping a process that began back in August 2024

Boulder City Council race has Benjamin, Wallach, Kaplan, Robins leading in first drop for 2025 election Leaders are emerging from the 11 candidates vying for the four open seats in the Boulder City Council candidates.

Moderates are up after the first drop of votes in the Boulder City Council race, which represents early voting. In the past, the early votes tend to lean moderate/conservative

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

Today, Monopoly unveiled its Boulder Edition at the Museum of Boulder. Simultaneously, I met my sleep paralysis demon.

Story to come in the Camera this weekend

(About Monopoly or my new terror? Stay tuned….)

INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST TEAM

Boulder's recommended 2026 budget, released today, proposes laying off three filled positions and 16 vacant ones. The city has been on a hiring freeze since June

Diamond suffered third-degree burns on her head, neck, torso and extremities. Among complications from those injuries were necrotizing pneumonia and acute tubular necrosis, which is the death of kidney tubule cells.

JUST IN: The Boulder County Coroner has released the autopsy report of Karen Diamond, the 82-year-old woman who died from injuries sustained in the June 1 antisemitic firebombing attack on the Pearl Street Mall. Coroner estimates 49.25% of her body's surface area was burned

INBOX: Boulder Run for Their Lives, the same Jewish group targeted in the June 1 firebombing attack, is no longer publicly advertising their weekly demonstrations out of safety concerns

#copolitics

Uncertainty looms over Boulder’s iconic NOAA labs site The murky future of Boulder’s four NOAA research labs has brought renewed attention to their economic, scientific and cultural importance.

Boulder’s NOAA labs are iconic and integral to the city’s identity and pride. The future of those labs are murky, so I spoke with former NOAA employees and former congressman David Skaggs about the labs’ impact for today’s Camera. Check it out.

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BREAKING: An 82-year-old woman died from injuries sustained during the June 1 antisemitic firebombing on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall last Wednesday, the Boulder Jewish Community Center announced in a Monday email

Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett and Combat Antisemitism Movement Partner to Convene Emergency Summit on Antisemitism Following the horrific firebomb attack last weekend targeting a group of Jewish Americans in Boulder, Colorado, Mayor Aaron Brockett, in partnership with the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), is convening an emergency regional summit this Monday, June 9, responding to the alarming rise in antisemitic violence. The Boulder attack and the murder only days earlier of a young couple outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., are part of a disturbing national and global pattern fueled by growing radicalization, misinformation, and hostility. The Boulder Emergency Summit: Confronting Antisemitism in Our Region will bring together leading decisionmakers from across the Mountain West and Great Plains to devise strategies and coordinate decisive action to secure and nurture Jewish life. The event runs from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Boulder and calls for urgent regional cooperation to confront extremism before it escalates further. "The Boulder Emergency Summit is a line in the sand," said Lisa Katz, Chief Government Affairs Officer at the Combat Antisemitism Movement. "We are gathering in the wake of terror - with representatives from every level of government standing shoulder to shoulder - not just to condemn antisemitism, but to confront it with action. This is a moment of moral reckoning. We cannot wait for more Jewish lives to be threatened or lost. Together, we are sending a clear and urgent message: hate will not go unanswered, and the safety, dignity, and future of Jewish Americans must be protected - now and always." Mayor Brockett and CAM initiated this rapid-response summit to bring together municipal and state leaders, law enforcement, educators, faith leaders, and community stakeholders from Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. The summit will provide practical tools, regional partnerships, and policy framewo…

The Florida-based crisis PR firm helping convene a "Boulder Emergency Summit" with state and local leaders in the wake of the anti-Semitic Pearl Street attack has a notable recent history in Colorado politics, as the source of the most sensational claims about Venezuelan gangs taking over Aurora.

Of course, Monday mornings aren’t a peak time for Pearl Street. Still, the city ambiance and overcast sky are eerie

Boulder cycling community hopes for continued safety efforts A series of cyclist and pedestrian deaths along the Front Range has brought renewed attention to road safety.

ICYMI: A string of cyclist and pedestrian deaths, and the closing of the trial of Magnus White’s killing, has brought renewed attention to cyclist safety in Boulder and the front range

“You never know whose life you’re going to save”

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Picture of the OJ Simpson car chase with the caption "millions expected to travel this Memorial day, breaking 20-year-old record"

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

Boulder youth homeless shelter suspends its work at The Source Operations have been suspended for The Source, a 24/7 shelter for people aged 12 to 24 years, according to a press release.

Just in: Operations have been suspended for The Source, a 14-bed 24/7 youth homeless shelter in Boulder

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Former local NAACP member sues Boulder, police chief and city manager The City of Boulder, chief of police Stephen Redfearn and city manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde are named in a civil lawsuit accusing them of violating a man’s constitutional rights.

ICYMI: A Boulder-area activist and ex-local NAACP member has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Boulder, PD Chief Stephen Redfearn and city manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde

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Homeless advocates question planned Boulder civic area facelift Plans for economic revitalization in downtown Boulder is leaving the city’s homeless population and its advocates worried

ICYMI: Spurring economic growth in downtown Boulder (especially just south of Pearl) is a hot topic.

The homeless community and their advocates, though, worry what that means for them.

Israel-Hamas protest arises again at Boulder City Council meeting Boulder City Council’s Thursday meeting got going with a couple dozen concerned members of the public in the audience. It ended with an empty audience section in the council chambers after a city o…

ICYMI: Protesters over the war in Gaza continues to dominate Boulder City Council meetings, which led Thursday’s meeting to enter a brief recess three times and for the chamber to be cleared

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I'm sad to leave the community I've called home for almost five years but I'm thrilled to be returning to the Front Range and serve the Boulder area

I have some big news to share: My time with the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel is coming to an end. I'm taking over as the new city reporter at the Boulder Daily Camera on April 8.

White supremacist invited to speak at CMU by student club A white supremacist is slated to speak at Colorado Mesa University, sparking concerns from students and a response from school administration.

ICYMI: A student club at Colorado Mesa University has invited a white supremacist to speak on campus later this month. Students in vulnerable communities are worried this will lead to more harassment.

If you are a Colorado Mesa University student who wants to speak about the white supremacist speaker invited to campus, message me or DM me for my signal

NEWS: I am moving back to the Sentinel's news desk after nearly 4 years covering sports. I'm beyond grateful for my time and will certainly be covering sports here and there (especially football) but I'm excited to tell new stories in the Grand Valley