Danish Plan
Why fracking is here to stay
If you want to know why fracking is here to stay, consider what’s been going on in Weld County...
Reports of the death of the oil industry are greatly exaggerated
A year ago, a lot of green- washed Luddites were wondering out loud about whether the global collapse of oil prices would accomplish what...
Ostracism: A better option than impeachment
Congress shouldn’t decide whether Trump remains in office. The American people should.
It’s time to get rid of the toxic process of impeachment and replace...
Who is a civilian?
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...
Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators
Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...
Another lump of coal
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...
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
Is Nablus Boulder’s weird sister?
According to a story in last Sunday’s Camera, a group has emerged that wants to establish a sister city relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus...
No water for fracking? No problem
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...
Gaza and ‘game changers’
Editor’s Note: Long-time Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish has made numerous trips to Israel during times of conflict. So we asked him for his opinion of what is happening in the region at this time...
What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking
Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...
An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner
I read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United...
