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My Willmeng dilemma

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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,...

Colorado ‘promotes’ natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River

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Parachute Creek is now officially contaminated with cancer-causing benzene and heaven knows what else. A carcinogenic stew is now making its way quickly down the creek and presumably into the Colorado River a mere four miles away from the source of the contamination...

A Visit from St. Vladimir

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house staggered aging underwear models, and a giant orange louse; The fishnet stockings were hung...

You might as well cut off our hands

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Who you gonna call? The answer of course depends on who you are. If you’re the oil and gas industry and you need someone...

End municipalization secrecy

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Let me start by saying I’m all for municipalization. I have supported the idea of forming a municipal electric utility in Boulder from the beginning. That said, I continue to be disappointed by the way that the City of Boulder conducts itself on this important issue...

Smart Track? We’re not that stupid

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What does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers...

A 1,000-week conversation

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It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...

Humpty Dumpty, Jews and Armageddon

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My mom always told me opening my big mouth about politics and religion would be my downfall. I don’t disagree. But this is one...

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I think it was in 1995 that I first suggested a fix to Boulder’s affordable housing problem in the pages of Boulder Weekly. As I recall, the circumstances were a lot like today; rents and real estate prices were outrageously high for the region and the Boulder ...

Don’t trade pennies for your planet

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There is an old political joke in my business in which a reporter who doesn’t much care for a particular candidate shouts out at a press conference, “Do you still beat your wife?” The candidate, who of course has never done such a despicable thing, quickly responds ...

Trump’s racism will hit his supporters in their pocketbooks

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Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” —Ken Cuccinelli,...

Secrecy on Messinger firing is hiding BOE’s own guilt

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If you’re still confused over the firing of former Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) superintendent Bruce Messinger, it really isn’t your fault. The BVSD...