Danish Plan

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...

I have a modest proposal to put an end once and for all to all the sexual tomfoolery going on in Congress and congressional offices....

Here’s an inconvenient little truth that keeps getting lost in the shuffle when local activists start hyper-ventillating about fracking: If you want to ban fracking, you may end up paying through the nose...

A couple of weeks ago, the Weekly printed a letter from Jim Bryant taking me to task for dissing the decision by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to locate its new $500 million supercomputer in Cheyenne, Wyo. — where it can get cheap, coalgenerated...

Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...

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

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), ...

If you want to know why fracking is here to stay, consider what’s been going on in Weld County...

The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk. A couple months ago Musk, the founder...

The START strategic arms reduction treaty that the U.S. Senate recently approved should never have been negotiated, much less ratified...

Ding, dong. The snake is dead...

About the anti-corporate personhood referendum that might be on the Boulder ballot this November — I smell a rat. Several, in fact...