Danish Plan

Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will

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What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...

John Calhoun, call your office

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According to a recent poll, taken over the Fourth of July holiday of all times, nearly four out of 10 likely voters are so...

Inconvenient truths about “affordable” housing and Ballot Question 300

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Whatever else Ballot Questions 300 and 301 end up accomplishing, they have already succeeded in awakening the social consciences of most of the developers, builders, realtors and bankers in Boulder...

Real tax reform means everyone pays something

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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 ...

San Francisco’s suit against ExxonMobil goes up in smoke

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Well that didn’t take long. On April 17, Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor for damages stemming from global warming caused by the carbon dioxide released...

Ratifying START was insane

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The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...

Blacks, police and marijuana

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There are three simple things President Barack Obama can do to reduce the sort of confrontations between cops and young black men that occasionally get the latter killed and much more often get them arrested...

Another horror story from the Weld County oil patch

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Here’s another environmental horror story from the Weld County oil patch...

COPOUT 21

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The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...

How to provide higher learning at a lower price

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I have a modest proposal for making the college experience more affordable, accessible, excellent and just plain better...

Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai

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OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...