Danish Plan
Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai
OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...
When it comes to sustainability, roads are more important than compost
As a matter of full disclosure, Paul Danish is currently running for County Commissioner. Should any other candidates for County Commissioner or current Commissioners...
A very big fish story
This could be the greatest fish story since the one about loaves and fishes — and with a lot more fish involved, at that.
But...
2016 and the demographics of social issues
Republicans are feeling pretty good about their chances of winning the presidency next year. They’ve got a strong (if currently overcrowded) bench of candidates and a lot of the likely issues are breaking their way...
The Democrats don’t get the Tea Party
It`s pretty much settled Democratic Party theology that the Tea Party movement consists of little more than racist, angry white male knuckle draggers. Inconveniently, the stereotype is wrong...
Will Trump be the new Lincoln?
Donald Trump may go down in history as the next Abraham Lincoln.
No, really. And all because of California. California is seriously thinking about doing...
Putin and anti-fracking activism
Harold Hamm, the multibillionaire oilman who is president of Continental Resources, the company that is the biggest player in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil patch, raised some eyebrows last week when he said the Russians were financing the anti-fracking movement in ...
Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv
Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...
Oil wells vs. subdivisions
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 ...
The eagle has landed — with extreme prejudice
Wind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...
30 years later, why Otrona didn’t compute
It didn’t come as a shock when I turned 70 last summer. I had seen it coming for a long time...
Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger
Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...
