Danish Plan
First, they came for the ice cream
H. L. Mencken, the great 20th century iconoclast, defined “Puritanism” as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.”
Boulder is chock-full of puritans...
When Palestine declares its independence
Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...
Colorado should quit punishing pot users
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...
Who is a civilian?
During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...
The Cannonball River slobs
The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them.
Slobs.
Now that the...
Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv
Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...
Trump’s victory and the price of cars
When I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last...
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan
The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...
OMG! The Roughnecks are coming!
Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming!
The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...
Nine ways to run a computer
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...
Repeal the Second Amendment? How about the First?
Editor's Note: The original version of this article misspelled Andrew O'Connor's name...
