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And education must be restructured to meet this challenge. </div> </div> <figure> <div class="image-wrapper"><a href="https://www.dailycamera.com/2025/04/11/opinion-j-walter-sterling-the-woes-of-attention-capitalism-are-new-but-the-cure-is-ancient/" ><img alt="We are losing the liberty of controlling our own minds. And education must be restructured to meet this challenge. 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Instead, the council should institute a completely independent third-party review of these alternatives, with participation and supervision by Boulder’s (and CU’s) citizen experts. Let’s find out what provides real security for Boulder, based on accurate, verifiable and complete data and analyses. Then let the people vote on it. 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