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Big day in American history

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April 19 is a big day in American history, maybe even the biggest. Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Here’s a clue. It was a cool and misty morning...

Will Colorado come apart?

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When county commissioners get together and start to think, the fat’s in the fire. (Trust me on this...

What one Republican would do about climate change

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Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Center for International Environment & Resource Policy at Tuft University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recently told Public Radio International that if the Republicans don’t like President Obama’s approach to curbing ...

Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels

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There seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan rebels...

Why roads matter

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According to a story in last Monday’s Daily Camera, the town of Erie is about to annex 230 acres south of the town for...

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...

A costly inconvenient truth

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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...

Is Nablus Boulder’s weird sister?

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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...

The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs

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By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...

Obama makes his bones, maybe

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Now that’s my kind of hope and change...

No water for fracking? No problem

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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...

The first marathon

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When Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-year-old record for the largest number of individual...