Danish Plan
Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking
A couple of weeks ago the price of natural gas dropped below $2 per thousand cubic feet, the lowest it has been in more than a decade before rebounding somewhat. For that, the 99 percent — the 99 percent of Boulder residents who heat their homes with natural gas, ...
A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards
It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been.
I first heard it in the 1960s during a...
Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president?
Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president...
The green whine over U.S. gas exports
When Russia took over the Crimea at the start of the month, there were widespread calls in Congress and among the chattering classes (including from me) for the U.S. to fast-track the export of natural gas and oil to Europe in order to lessen Europe’s dependence on ...
Russia, social media and Cold War 2.0
About Russia using social media to meddle in the election — and undermine and disrupt American democracy and the American social fabric generally —...
What one Republican would do about climate change
Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...
Hug the children, bill their countries
Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...
Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder
Come November, Boulder voters will be asked whether they want to throw the city’s franchise with Xcel Energy under the bus and set up a municipal electric utility in its place. Voters will also be asked to double the city’s carbon tax (to 0.99 cent from 0.49 cent), ...
OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!
Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming!
The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...
Polis plays the Nazi card
Following the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law last month, Boulder Congressman Jared Polis unburdened himself of the following thoughts to the POLITICO website: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second-class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II...
The Donald better start feeling the Bern
Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...













