Danish Plan

A modest proposal for ending the budget impasse

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In his weekly radio address this past Saturday, President Obama called on Republicans and Democrats to make “political sacrifices” to break the budget impasse and prevent the collapse of civilization as we know it...

The wrong marijuana message

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There they go again...

The Cannonball River slobs

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The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them. Slobs. Now that the...

Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union

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The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...

Enough!

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Dr. Mitchell Gershten of Paonia had a letter to the editor in the Daily Camera last Saturday certain to have set atwitter the heart of every oil company hater in Boulder County...

Obama’s silly speech

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The most charitable thing that can be said about Barack Obama’s graduation address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is that it was silly...

Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November

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Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...

A gentleman’s C for the pot task force

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I’ve been reading the recommendations of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force. They mostly remind me of Mark Twain’s description of Wagner’s music: “It’s better than it sounds.” But just barely...

Why roads matter

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According to a story in last Monday’s Daily Camera, the town of Erie is about to annex 230 acres south of the town for...

The race question

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...

Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder

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Come November, Boulder voters will be asked whether they want to throw the city’s franchise with Xcel Energy under the bus and set up a municipal electric utility in its place. Voters will also be asked to double the city’s carbon tax (to 0.99 cent from 0.49 cent), ...

Fighting climate change like World War II

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a lot of snickers a couple weeks ago when she said Millennials and Gen Z “thought the world is gonna end...