Danish Plan

Sometimes you learn the darnedest things if you read a news story all the way to the end...

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), ...

As a matter of full disclosure, Paul Danish is currently running for County Commissioner. Should any other candidates for County Commissioner or current Commissioners...

One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...

About 150 people turned up at the Plaza Hotel’s Conference Center in Longmont last Monday to try to browbeat the Boulder County commissioners into banning oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. Chances are most of them drove to the meeting. In cars fueled by ...

NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...

This could be huge. Really huge. Let’s hope it is. There’s a startup company in Louisville that started registering on the radar this week. Its name is...

So you don’t like fracking, huh...

Random thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11...

Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...

There’s a new “Peak Oil” prediction out, and this one is worth taking seriously if for no other reason than its source. Peak Oil, you...

It would be wrong to say that Boulder wasn’t concerned about growth until 1971. In the 1950s and 1960s Boulder was plenty concerned about growth — specifically about how to get more of it...