Danish Plan

It didn’t come as a shock when I turned 70 last summer. I had seen it coming for a long time...

At a recent debate on fracking, Peter Champe of the Longmont anti-fracking group Our Future, Our Health, Our Longmont, summed up his group’s brief. Fracking is a major industrial activity, he said, and major industrial activities aren’t allowed in residential ...

There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...

On Dec. 13, Karl Halverson Pierson, a disgruntled student, entered Arapahoe High School in Littleton in a murderous frame of mind...

What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...

Ding, dong. The snake is dead...

Sometimes you learn the darnedest things if you read a news story all the way to the end...

I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...

Boulder is full of Democrats — Ds outnumber Rs two-to-one — so the county’s election results didn’t exactly come as a bolt from the blue...

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

On Nov. 9, 1989, BW marijuana columnist Leland Rucker and I kicked back on his couch, cracked a couple of Buds, fired up a spliff, and waited for the Berlin Wall to come down...

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...