Danish Plan

Why roads matter

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According to a story in last Monday’s Daily Camera, the town of Erie is about to annex 230 acres south of the town for...

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...

Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators

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Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...

Ban fracking? Why stop there?

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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...

Boulder’s lifestyle depends on the use of fracking

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A couple of weeks ago the price of natural gas dropped below $2 per thousand cubic feet, the lowest it has been in more than a decade before rebounding somewhat. For that, the 99 percent — the 99 percent of Boulder residents who heat their homes with natural gas, ...

Big day in American history

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April 19 is a big day in American history, maybe even the biggest. Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Here’s a clue. It was a cool and misty morning...

Floods and the city, CU edition

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According to the Daily Camera, the Boulder City Council last week “voted to move forward with a flood mitigation plan that ignored expert advice,...

Hamas does not give shelter

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If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...

Boulder, Uber, Google and traffic

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I have a modest proposal for dealing with Boulder’s traffic mess: outsource the problem to Google and Uber. Boulder’s traffic mess is bad; the worst...

The toxic hell of fracking (children welcome)

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The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...

Nine ways to run a computer

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A couple of weeks ago, the Weekly printed a letter from Jim Bryant taking me to task for dissing the decision by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to locate its new $500 million supercomputer in Cheyenne, Wyo. — where it can get cheap, coalgenerated...

Will Trump be the new Lincoln?

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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...