Danish Plan

How will the great American social distancing experiment end?

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How will America’s great social distancing experiment end? Just guessing, but I suspect toward the end of April, millions of Americans will say, in...

Boulder, Uber, Google and traffic

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I have a modest proposal for dealing with Boulder’s traffic mess: outsource the problem to Google and Uber. Boulder’s traffic mess is bad; the worst...

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...

The coming lithium wars: what we know

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We all know that we have only a mere 11 years to save the planet from the global warming apocalypse. We know this because...

A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards

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It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been. I first heard it in the 1960s during a...

Russia’s war on GMOs

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According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...

Hug the children, bill their countries

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Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...

Civil disobedience in Lafayette and North Dakota

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The latest bright idea to emerge from Boulder County’s intrepid anti-frackers is to get the City of Lafayette to legalize “non-violent” civil disobedience and...

San Francisco’s suit against ExxonMobil goes up in smoke

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Well that didn’t take long. On April 17, Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor for damages stemming from global warming caused by the carbon dioxide released...

The anti-Electoral College compact may come with a nasty surprise

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The Colorado legislature approved a bill on Feb. 21 to cast Colorado’s electoral votes for president for the candidate who gets the most popular...

Obama goes nuclear — will carbon caps follow?

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According to a recent Reuters article, the U.S. Senate is about to take up climate change/capand-trade/energy legislation again, which, politically, is like taking up serpents...

Trump encounters reality, eh?

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Well, Mr. Trump, how’s that Canadian stuff working out for ya? Not so much, eh? When Donald Trump attempted to question whether Ted Cruz was a...