Danish Plan

CU should expand in Louisville, not on South Boulder Creek

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There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...

The Zetas and the Surfriders

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Cities provide a lot of services, but only four of them are truly vital: Water, sewer, police and fire. (Add gas and electricity to the list in towns with municipal utilities...

Who killed Proposition 19?

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  Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...

Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems

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“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”  —Yogi Berra Back in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek...

Climategate: Forget Denmark, something is rotten with CRU science

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Those who have been reading this column for awhile know that my views on global warming are a bit askew of the traditional fault lines on the subject...

The marketplace of ideas

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Whatever else it did, the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — that’s the campaign finance case — has prompted a lot of Boulder lefties to take pen in hand and hyperventilate that the American republic, and possibly ...

A typical massacre in Aurora

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In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...

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...

Obama’s happy dance with Iran

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Obama is riding hell-bent for leather toward a nuclear deal with Iran which — if the leaked outlines of it are remotely accurate — will turn the United States into the principal enabler and legitimizer of Iran’s nuclear ambitions...

UFOs: Undocumented aliens or black projects?

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The best news stories are mysteries, and the queen of journo mysteries is the UFO story. It’s been around since World War II, when...

Politics, like rust, never sleeps

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 Politics, like rust, never sleeps...

Mitt and the Bain thing

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About Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital thing: I’ve always admired venture capitalists. But not all venture capitalists are equal...