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Season 3, Episode 4: "Whatever You Do, Don’t Go Home"
Airdate: 24 July 2026
Synopsis: "The race to evade Camille leads Juliette to a shocking discovery. Daniel seeks help from a friend."
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Season 3, Episode 3: "It's All Good"
Airdate: 17 July 2026
Synopsis: "Juliette takes control of her recovery process. Helen suffers consequences of her investigation.."
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Some of you might remember a post I made a while back about DaycareAlert, a free site I built to look up daycare inspection and violation records. A lot of people used it and sent feedback, so this is the follow up I have been wanting to write for a long time.
First, the part I couldn’t say until now.
Something happened to my son Everett at his daycare in North Dallas. It was the worst day of my life. There was a serious safety violation and he was physically hurt along with another child. Afterwards I found out the facility had a history of violations. That information was technically public, but it was buried on a state website where no normal parent would ever find it. I felt completely blindsided/responsible. If I could have seen that record in five minutes, I would have picked a different daycare. There was a lawsuit, and it finally wrapped up, which is why I can talk about it now.
Building this site at night/weekends after my day job was honestly how I dealt with feeling like I should have known. Took me about 9 months.
When I first posted here, the site only covered Texas. Now I’ve added around 48 states + DC. That’s roughly 214,000 licensed daycares facilities and more than 1.3 million inspection/violation records in the US. Every state publishes this stuff differently, some in clean downloads, some most in clunky portals or scanned PDFs, so it took forever.
One thing I want to be honest about. A state with more recorded violations usually just inspects more often and publishes more. It does not mean its daycares are worse. I tried to build the site so that difference is obvious instead of hidden.
The site is free for parents and always will be. No paywall, no ads, no selling your info. That was the whole point of building it.
If you are picking childcare right now or curious about your kid’s current daycare, it’s daycarealert.com. If something looks broken or confusing, tell me. Half the improvements since my last post came from comments here.
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me the first time. It kept me going.
>Ads for weight loss medication are everywhere. For the people experiencing or treating eating disorders, it’s “a catastrophic situation.” So says Dr. Elizabeth Wassenaar, a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in obesity medicine and eating disorders.
>Dr. Wassenaar is joined by Olivia, a recent CU grad who is in recovery for an eating disorder. Both women dissect Boulder’s health + fitness culture and the way it contributes to unhealthy behavior.
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Season 3, Episode 2: "It's All Good"
Airdate: 10 July 2026
Synopsis: "Billings investigates a disappearance. Daniel Keene has a run-in with a reporter."
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>The City of Boulder will choose a new vendor in the coming weeks to run the city’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The city’s deployment of these cameras used to conduct ongoing, warrantless surveillance of everyone who passes through our community is fundamentally a violation of our Constitutional rights to privacy, assembly and the freedom to travel.
>The City of Boulder is unfortunately treating a major civil liberties question during the most significant democratic backsliding in decades as a normal technology procurement process. Despite two years of backlash against its current ALPR vendor, Flock, and quitting its “national network” last June, the City of Boulder has not changed its course for deploying ALPRs throughout our community. In May, two Boulder residents sued Boulder Police, calling the cameras “mass suspicionless, warrantless surveillance.”
Super interesting collection of histories of Boulder. There are five reports in this collection, and they are gigantic >100mb and ~300 pages: 1871–1946, 1965–1974, 1975–1979, 1980–1984, and 1985–1990. (So there are gaps for 1947–1964 and 1990–present)
Each report is a summary of significant events, organized by theme and/or year, with detailed references to primary sources and news coverage.
Thank you librarians and library district!
"The finances of childcare are a paradox. Parents pay thousands of dollars each year to place their children in a licensed facility: $1,000 per month per kid, according to a 2025 report from conservative-leaning nonprofit think tank Common Sense Institute — more in Boulder County, the state’s most expensive. Care there costs $1,645 on average each month.
The workers caring for these children are among the state’s lowest-paid workers. Salaries are so low, in 2022, the state established a tax credit for early childhood education workers that is set to lapse this year.
Yet many providers are barely covering their bills, a situation exacerbated by shrinking federal and state childcare support for low-income families. This seemingly contradictory financial situation leads many parents and residents to ask: Where does the money go? "
"Despite a 2021 Colorado law meant to curb solitary confinement, judges almost always approve requests to isolate people with serious mental illness, often because there is nowhere else to send them."
Related story here too: https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/06/23/the-jail-that-replaced-boulder-countys-mental-health-system/
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I'm curious to hear this community's reactions to this announcement.
These are notebook tutorials for retrieving and analyzing data from Bluesky/ATProto, available in two parallel implementations: Python Jupyter notebooks and R Markdown documents that perform the same analyses.
“At Boulder Progressives’ Raucous Caucus, candidates seeking five seats on the Boulder City Council, including the mayor’s seat, outlined their views on housing growth, homelessness, tipped wages, the municipal airport and Boulder’s growing budget challenges.”
"In the Louisville subreddit, some users said the former moderator had used the group in an attempt to push a political message, with one saying they are “a libertarian who didn’t even live in Louisville and had taken over several small town subs.”
A February post from the former moderator reads: “We can make it so that you don’t have to vote for the least bad candidate. Give people a choice they can trust. Run For Office – Libertarian Party of Colorado.”
Another post from the moderator was titled “From the ColoradoLibertarian community on Reddit: A Brief History of the State of Israel with Cory Hughes.”
After Reddit removed the former moderator, one user expressed concern that the site “only steps in when the action helps the political left.”
"Boulder’s affordability crisis is often described as a consequence of geography, desirability and market forces beyond anyone’s control. But when governing bodies prioritize business interests over worker interests and choose to slow wage growth for the workers least able to absorb the cost of that crisis, it reveals how Boulder’s affordability crisis is also a product of choices we continue to make.
The tipped workers asking council to protect their wages are not asking for charity. They are asking Boulder to uphold a basic social contract that people who work here should also be able to live here."