Danish Plan

Now playing in the star chamber: The impeachment of Donald Trump

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According to a story in the Washington Post, House Democrats want the whistleblower, whose complaint is the pretext for their impeachment inquiry, to testify...

A Nobel Prize for Assange? How about in chemistry?

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Someone in the Russian government last week (speaking anonymously so he could speak frankly, ironically enough) suggested that Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ alpha drip, deserved a Nobel Prize...

Roger Sherman and the 210,328 complications

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Roger Sherman says that legalizing marijuana is not a simple question...

Reducing the budget

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A couple of weeks ago President Obama challenged Republicans who are calling for less federal spending and a smaller federal government to state exactly what they would cut...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan

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The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...

Fracking out of a recession

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Let’s begin with a short quiz...

The sneak attack on Amendment 64

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The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...

When Palestine declares its independence

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Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...

Obama’s clueless view of ISIL

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I would feel a lot better about Obama’s prospects for kicking the Islamic State’s ass if it weren’t for what he said in the fourth paragraph of his speech to the nation last week...

The Donald is about to enter the oil patch

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Prediction: If you want to know where the Trump administration is headed, start by reviewing what’s been going on in the oil patch for...

The drug war turns 40

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I was just kicking back with my second piece of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...

The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)

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The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...