Danish Plan

The pleasant surprises of October

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Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...

Bomb Gaddafi’s runways

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Obama. Bomb the freaking runways...

San Francisco’s suit against ExxonMobil goes up in smoke

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Well that didn’t take long. On April 17, Boulder sued ExxonMobil and Suncor for damages stemming from global warming caused by the carbon dioxide released...

The president’s astonishing chutzpa

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President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...

Macron and les deplorables

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French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris from the G20 Summit, where he reaffirmed France’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, to discover a...

The great flatulence of 2016

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The Idea Fairy and I were nibbling on a new batch of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Saul Alinsky. “Saul,...

Was America ever great? You bet it was! And it still...

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Maybe Trump derangement syndrome made them do it. Or maybe they’re just part of the Democrats’ slime-America-first caucus. Whatever the cause, at least three prominent...

The muni’s time has passed

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Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started. Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...

The secret sauce

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In the 228 years since the United States Constitution was ratified there have been dozens of attempts to emulate it. Nations all over the world...

Redeveloping 11th and Pearl

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Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...

The dark horses of 2016

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The best advice I ever got about running for office came from Faye Johnson, a fierce Democratic warrior and former Boulder County Democratic Party chair. It consisted of exactly three words: “Make no assumptions...