Danish Plan

Inconvenient truths about “affordable” housing and Ballot Question 300

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Whatever else Ballot Questions 300 and 301 end up accomplishing, they have already succeeded in awakening the social consciences of most of the developers, builders, realtors and bankers in Boulder...

Oil wells vs. subdivisions

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At a recent debate on fracking, Peter Champe of the Longmont anti-fracking group Our Future, Our Health, Our Longmont, summed up his group’s brief. Fracking is a major industrial activity, he said, and major industrial activities aren’t allowed in residential ...

Think globally, mine locally

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Good news. At last there’s a way for Boulder to think globally and act locally to stop genocide. No more of that “put up a yard sign and feel holy” crap. Now we can do something that really makes a difference. First some background. According to a story in...

The gathering storm

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The ballots go out on October 12. That’s when the shitstorm begins...

Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.

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There he goes again. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, has reintroduced his perennial bill to bring back the draft...

Big Organic behaving badly (much worse than Monsanto)

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Bad news, anti-GMO-ers. It isn’t Big Ag and Monsanto that’s been ruining your dinner. It’s Big Organic Ag. You don’t have to take my word...

Pot at the tea party

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The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...

What the Russians were really up to

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So did the Russians hack the election, and if so, why, and did Trump collude with them? Here’s what I think will come out of...

If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming

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So you don’t like fracking, huh...

Redeveloping 11th and Pearl

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Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...

No water for fracking? No problem

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One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...

A modest proposal to begin updating our national symbols

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Symbols matter. That’s why the time has come to replace the tired old bald eagle on the great seal of the United States and in other patriotic venues with a critter more in keeping with the lifestyle, values and morals of 21st-century America: The rat...