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Illustration of the Mars Perseverance Rover using its SuperCam instrument to laser zap a rock in order to test what it’s made of. Credit: NASAThe <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Mars</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is prevalent in Mars' surface…

Under Elon Musk’s rule, Twitter employees have been required to work from a company office for at least 40 hours per week since November 2022. But following that mandate might get a lot more difficult for a subset of the platform’s Colorado-based workers. To get to their desks, some of the site’s Boulder employees will have to fight their way through the county sheriff.How To Remove Followers From TwitterA judge has ordered one of Twitter’s offices to be returned to the landlord (Lot 2 SBO LLC), as first reported by the…

A Boulder landlord succeeded in obtaining an order to evict Twitter over unpaid rent, according to recent court documents. A judge for Boulder County’s district court permitted law enforcement to evict the tenant on May 31, directing the tech giant to evacuate its suites at 3401 Bluff St. in Boulder and return them to the owner and landlord, Lot 2 SBO LLC. On May 12, Lot 2 SBO — a Delaware limited liability company related to Chicago’s The John Buck Company — filed a complaint against Twitter, alleging unpaid rent.…

Homeowners have a growing number of options when it comes to heating and cooling their homes and Boulder County has partnered with an online marketplace to make it easier for residents to make decisions. The county Energy Smart program has teamed up with EnergySage to give county residents access to information about contractors, comparison quotes for service and equipment and third-party advice from experts on heat pumps. The heat pumps can be used for heating and cooling and are an option for people who want to…

Twitter Inc., the social media giant that was evicted from its Boulder office in December, is now accused of stiffing the office’s cleaning company on the way out. Avalanche Commercial Cleaning, of Boulder, sued Twitter on Thursday in Boulder County District Court as it tries to collect $93,504 from the $20 billion company. Avalanche said it was hired by Twitter in mid-2015 and kept 1301 Walnut St. clean from then until Dec. 19, 2022, when Twitter terminated its contract and asked Avalanche to send an invoice for the…

A Boulder-based constellation of 108 Hardee’s restaurants has gone bankrupt. Six LLCs that are part of Capstone Restaurant Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection May 4 and recently closed 39 of their 147 Hardee’s locations, bankruptcy filings show. “Together, the debtors constitute one of the largest current franchisees of Hardee’s restaurants,” said Daniel Dooley, a financial advisor to the companies, in an affidavit May 4. The companies, headquartered at 7490 Clubhouse Road in Boulder, employ 2,250 people…

When Spyder Active Sports founder David Jacobs decided to sell his 8,700-square-foot Boulder mansion in 2015, he listed it for $7.25 million. Five months later, he pulled it off the market. He tried again in 2016 for $7.15 but removed the listing three months later. Jacobs and his wife, Jean Conway, listed the four-bedroom, six-bath home on Lee Hill Drive again in February with a $15 million price tag. If the Lee Hill Drive home sells for $15 million, it will shatter a record set in January when the $13 million sale of a…

The owners of the 15th Street home where 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in 1996 have put the property back on the market, this time with a much higher price tag. Almost 20 years after it was last purchased, the 5-bedroom house at 749 15th St. was listed for sale Wednesday. The 7,240-square-foot house has been up for sale, on and off, since 2008. It was last listed for sale in 2014. The current listing on Zillow, posted by LIV Sotheby’s International Realty, prices the property at $6.95 million — a big jump from…

Josh Ritzer, a former Silicon Valley high-tech manager, is on a mission to save Main Street by developing a digital platform specifically for small businesses. Taking inspiration from a prototype that he and a college professor worked on, Ritzer has launched a mobile app designed to draw customers to local businesses for special events or when things are slow. Last year, users and businesses in Boulder started testing the app, called Nigh, pronounced “nye.” Ritzer launched a pilot in January. Ritzer worked for about 10…

A 9,000-square-foot modern farmhouse tops January’s list of priciest local home sales in the Denver metro, according to MLS data. Matthew and Meg Erickson bought the property on the 900 block of Gilbert Street in Boulder in 2014 for $2.3 million, according to property records. Matthew Erickson is the CEO of Vero Fiber Networks. Meg Erickson is an account director at Epsilon. The couple hired Dale Hubbard of Surround Architecture to design the five-bed, five-bath home, built by S.L. Murphy Construction in 2015. The home…