Danish Plan

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 ...

Those who have been reading this column for awhile know that my views on global warming are a bit askew of the traditional fault lines on the subject...

The Idea Fairy and I were testing out a new batch of edibles we’d baked when there was a knock on the door. It was...

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...

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

Like the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the State of Colorado contains a clause protecting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s found...

The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back after the election when suddenly the door flew open and a shadowy figure emerged through the...

I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid. I...

I’m writing this week’s rant on Sunday evening, April 28, which this year was the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew...

And now, the next president of the United States! David Walker...

You’ve probably heard about Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Ever wonder what they were? Alinsky, who died in 1972, is sometimes seen as the father...

A couple weeks ago Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) claimed that climate change is linked to, wait for it, white supremacy. She also claimed...