Danish Plan
Enough!
Dr. Mitchell Gershten of Paonia had a letter to the editor in the Daily Camera last Saturday certain to have set atwitter the heart of every oil company hater in Boulder County...
Will Colorado come apart?
When county commissioners get together and start to think, the fat’s in the fire. (Trust me on this...
The Children’s Crusades, then and now
It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation.
Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...
A costly inconvenient truth
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...
Ban fracking? Why stop there?
I have a modest proposal to resolve the fractious issue of fracking in Colorado. It’s a win-win amendment to the Colorado Constitution that will pass in a landslide...
Eight reasons to arm Libya’s rebels
There seems to be a big debate going on in the Obama administration over whether we should arm and train the Libyan rebels...
How to increase Colorado’s (and Arizona’s) water supply
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...
Is Trump a fascist or just marinated?
Former Mexican Presidents Vicente Fox (2000-2006) and Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) say Donald Trump reminds them of Hitler.
So does former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd...
Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union
The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...
Now playing in the star chamber: The impeachment of Donald Trump
According to a story in the Washington Post, House Democrats want the whistleblower, whose complaint is the pretext for their impeachment inquiry, to testify...
The flood of the century? Not exactly
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
Another year, another record and COP25
Another year, another record.
That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...













