Danish Plan
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
Boulder’s sad siblings
When the scheme to establish a “sister city” relationship between Boulder and the Palestinian city of Nablus came to light 15 months ago, I wrote a column suggesting that wouldn’t be a good idea because Nablus, and the An Najah University located in Nablus, “were ...
Nixon’s negative campaigns
Harvey and I were chowing down on an excellent plate of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon...
Who killed Proposition 19?
Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...
Boulder targets medical marijuana — and heads should roll
Heads should roll. And for once, let us state whose: David Driskell, executive director of community planning and sustainability...
Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!
The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...
The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs
By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre
A few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged...
Fighting climate change like World War II
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a lot of snickers a couple weeks ago when she said Millennials and Gen Z “thought the world is gonna end...
