Danish Plan
San Francisco’s suit against ExxonMobil goes up in smoke
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...
Trump and the cry-baby media
It used to be that the press knew how to take it in as well as how to dish it out.
That was then. This...
Forget Nablus and mediation — there’s a better choice for sister...
About 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of the...
An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner
I read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United...
The great flatulence of 2016
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,...
Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’
In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...
Climate science — and why the world won’t listen
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...
Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide
The County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their...
The first marathon
When Michael Phelps won his 13th individual Olympic gold medal last Thursday night, he eclipsed a 2,168-year-old record for the largest number of individual...
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...
