Danish Plan
Redeveloping 11th and Pearl
Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...
Big Organic behaving badly (much worse than Monsanto)
Bad news, anti-GMO-ers. It isn’t Big Ag and Monsanto that’s been ruining your dinner. It’s Big Organic Ag.
You don’t have to take my word...
Another horror story from the Weld County oil patch
Here’s another environmental horror story from the Weld County oil patch...
Is the world’s most interesting man running for president?
Forget about the guy who used to sell Dos Equis.
The world’s most interesting man is Andrew Yang.
OK, maybe he’s the world’s second most interesting...
A very big fish story
This could be the greatest fish story since the one about loaves and fishes — and with a lot more fish involved, at that.
But...
Reducing the budget
A couple of weeks ago President Obama challenged Republicans who are calling for less federal spending and a smaller federal government to state exactly what they would cut...
How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply
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...
Real tax reform means everyone pays something
Chances are the tax increases, cuts and fiddles President Obama proposed during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night are DOA in the Republican-controlled Congress. And chances are the tax cuts, increases and fiddles the Republicans will propose shortly are ...
Another lump of coal
NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan
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 ...
The return of the ferret
Good news. The Black-footed ferret, once called the most endangered mammal on the planet, is coming to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...
Supreme Court gives McCain-Feingold a thumpin’
The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...