Danish Plan

Come November, Boulder voters will be asked whether they want to throw the city’s franchise with Xcel Energy under the bus and set up a municipal electric utility in its place. Voters will also be asked to double the city’s carbon tax (to 0.99 cent from 0.49 cent), ...

The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...

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...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, 88 percent of the 2011 U.S. corn crop consists of genetically engineered varieties — either herbicide-tolerant types like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, or insect-resistant types ...

There are at least two groups that intend to put marijuana legalization initiatives on the Colorado ballot in 2012, but neither has as of yet put forward an actual proposal. Here’s mine...

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...

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

The Idea Fairy and I were kicking back — banana nut bread is the gift that keeps on giving — when there was a...

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...

I couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 years old at the time. Today I am 74, but the memory is still vivid. I...

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