Danish Plan
Russia’s war on GMOs
According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...
Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies
Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...
The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses
Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...
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 ...
The muni’s time has passed
Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started.
Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...
What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero
Do the Islamist raisins with legs who want to build a 13-story mosque a stone’s throw from the late World Trade Center in New York City have a constitutional right to do so? Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they do. If you think they don’t, what part of the First...
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...
Bulworth and the Honey Badger
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 ...
The dark horses of 2016
The best advice I ever got about running for office came from Faye Johnson, a fierce Democratic warrior and former Boulder County Democratic Party chair. It consisted of exactly three words: “Make no assumptions...
What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking
Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...
Climate science — and why the world won’t listen
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...
