Danish Plan
Double your bet on ClimateSmart
About this time last year, Charlie at Mesa Plumbing called with the dreaded news: The parts needed to overhaul my boiler were no longer carried by the gift shop at the National Museum of Pre-Columbian Plumbing and Heating."You really need to get one of those new ...
A modest proposal for ending the budget impasse
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...
Copenhagen was a success — for the Chinese
It would be wrong to say that nothing came out of the Copenhagen conference. Just ask the Chinese...
Boulder’s sad siblings
When the scheme to establish a “sister city” relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus came to light 15 months ago, I wrote a column suggesting that wouldn’t be a good idea because Nablus, and the An Najah University located in Nablus, “were ...
A modest proposal to protect members of Congress
I have a modest proposal for increasing the security for U.S. Congressmen without isolating them from their constituents anymore than they already are...
Funding social security without raising taxes
This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...
Boulder needs a municipal oil company
Many Boulder residents chafe under the tyranny of Big Oil, which supplies the gasoline, natural gas and asphalt in the Whole Foods parking lot on which their survival depends...
Turn Syria’s refugees into a liberation army
Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama’s pal Rahm Emmanuel once famously remarked, adding that what he meant by that was “it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before...
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 ...
Mitt and the Bain thing
About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...
Cain’s manager inhales
A lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president...
A gentleman’s C for the pot task force
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...
