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And now for the oil industry lies
As hopefully everyone has heard by now, proponents of Initiative 97, the 2,500-foot oil and gas setback initiative, turned in 171,000 signatures to the...
For now, Blue Book analysis of Prop DD is all wet
Here we go again. Every election cycle we get to peruse the Legislative Council’s Blue Book, which is supposed to guide us in an...
My Willmeng dilemma
It’s more a situation than a dilemma really. When it comes to Cliff Willmeng’s candidacy for Boulder County Commissioner as the Green Party candidate,...
Defining the real ‘goons’ in Boulder’s fracking debate
Well, it’s time for another meeting with Boulder County commissioners as they try to move ahead with rewriting the oil and gas regulations that govern our backyards...
For the record, I will be voting in secret
Well, it’s another first for Boulder County. Or should I say another black eye? When Nov. 6 rolls around, I hear we will be the only county in the nation that won’t be guaranteeing its citizens the right to a secret ballot, or at least that’s what voter privacy ...
Torture and abuse at the southern border
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I last crossed the U.S.-Mexican border illegally and spent a few days making my way...
Five questions for the director of the COGCC
At 9:05 a.m. on July 31, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) will be holding a public meeting at CU School of...
The Daily Camera’s indefensible firing of Dave Krieger
The firing of Daily Camera editorial page editor Dave Krieger sucks for him and is equally bad for you. The fact that a lot...
Council is listening, but to whom?
At this point, I actually feel a bit sorry for the members of Boulder’s City Council. In the last few months they have managed to anger just about everyone for one reason or another. Whether its development or rightsizing, municipalization miscues, nutty decisions on...
What would you do?
It’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately, thanks to the Trump administration’s war on immigrants. It was bad enough during the...
Behind the Polis Betrayal
So what went wrong with ballot measures 88 and 89? How could these popular citizen’s initiatives written to give local communities more control over drilling and fracking in their neighborhoods have failed to get on the ballot...
Municipalization: More important now than ever
In many ways I’m surprised and a bit saddened that I actually feel the need to write this explanation for why people should continue...