Danish Plan

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...

Funding social security without raising taxes

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This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...

Boulder’s latest green dreams

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The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...

Why the latest climate report will be ignored

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I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...

A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington

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I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...

Nixon on why I like Newt

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Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...

Boulder’s sad siblings

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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 ...

Three ways City Council’s gun ban will make Boulder less safe

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The common theme that ran through the testimony of the 30 people who spoke in favor of Boulder’s proposed assault rifle ban last week...

Cage match! Canada/New York edition

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Cage match! Trump and Cruz are down in the mud and the blood and the beer, punching and kicking and clawing and generally trying to...

The muni’s time has passed

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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...

A question of citizenship

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The Trump administration may be about to toss The Resistance a New Year’s hand grenade. The left-leaning website ProPublica last week reported that the U.S....

A tale from The Swamp

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I’ve been spending the summer cleaning out a locker (aka the black hole) at an undisclosed location in north Boulder, which means I’ve been...