Danish Plan

Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.

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There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...

Driving to ban drilling

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About 150 people turned up at the Plaza Hotel’s Conference Center in Longmont last Monday to try to browbeat the Boulder County commissioners into banning oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. Chances are most of them drove to the meeting. In cars fueled by ...

COPOUT 21

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The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...

The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses

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Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...

Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators

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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...

Nixon on why I like Newt

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Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...

Inconvenient truths about “affordable” housing and Ballot Question 300

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Whatever else Ballot Questions 300 and 301 end up accomplishing, they have already succeeded in awakening the social consciences of most of the developers, builders, realtors and bankers in Boulder...

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...

Nixon’s take on Bolton and Bernie

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The Idea Fairy and me were polishing off our latest plate of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard...

Funding social security without raising taxes

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This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...

What should we do with Edward Snowden?

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I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...

How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply

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Here are a few factoids to contemplate as we head into 2019: • In the past dozen years, Colorado’s population has grown by about 1...