Danish Plan

Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’

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In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...

Boulder’s insane densification

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The Boulder City Council’s latest mantra seems to have been taken directly from the Vietnam War: It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it...

Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies

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Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...

A modest proposal to end all the sexual tomfoolery in Congress

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I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....

Underground open space

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Inconvenient truth alert. It turns out that the Boulder County property owner with the most oil and gas wells on her land is none other...

How to increase Colorado’s water supply

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President Barack Obama gave a speech last week in California, which is enduring the worst drought in its recorded history, and he called on the country to rethink how it deals with water...

Boulder’s latest green dreams

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The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...

Who wants a big, cool rocket?

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A couple of days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully flew its Falcon Heavy rocket last week, a USA Today headline asked: “SpaceX Falcon Heavy —...

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre

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A few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan

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The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...

How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists)

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Talk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...

The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses

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Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...