Danish Plan

Another year, another record and COP25

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Another year, another record. That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...

Marijuana along the Rio Grande

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The Arizona Republic printed a terrific story last Sunday on the on-going war on marijuana smuggling being waged along the Rio Grande River in Texas...

How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply

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Here are a few factoids to contemplate as we head into 2019: • In the past dozen years, Colorado’s population has grown by about 1...

Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...

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On May 12, the planet’s atmosphere hit one of those “grim milestones” we hear so much about. According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory...

The pleasant surprises of October

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Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...

What the Russians were really up to

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So did the Russians hack the election, and if so, why, and did Trump collude with them? Here’s what I think will come out of...

When Palestine declares its independence

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Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...

Banning corporate personhood would destroy U.S. economy

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About the anti-corporate personhood referendum that might be on the Boulder ballot this November — I smell a rat. Several, in fact...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (and...

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I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid. I...

The anti-Electoral College compact may come with a nasty surprise

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The Colorado legislature approved a bill on Feb. 21 to cast Colorado’s electoral votes for president for the candidate who gets the most popular...

Now playing in the star chamber: The impeachment of Donald Trump

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According to a story in the Washington Post, House Democrats want the whistleblower, whose complaint is the pretext for their impeachment inquiry, to testify...

Bulworth and the Honey Badger

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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a case of life following art. The art in this case is the 1998 movie Bulworth. The film is an over-the-top political comedy starring Warren Beatty as Jay Billington Bulworth, a liberal Democratic U.S. Senator from California ...