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A new recording sheds more light on the questionable efforts to...
It’s been one long, hard road to get the 2,500-foot setback initiative (Initiative 97) on the November ballot. Not because the majority of people...
The collapse of compassion
Anne Harper and her family, along with their 14 or so neighbors, have a serious problem. The place they care about most, their home, is about to be changed forever and not in a good way. They are trying desperately to save their small rural community, which the ...
The new era of conspiracy thinking
When it comes to the emotional issue of gun control, Harry Truman had it right when he said, “The only thing new in this world is the history that you don’t know...
Hickenlooper’s drinking problem
There’s more than one way to lie. You can knowingly offer up false information as truth, or you can offer up little pieces of a story while leaving out other parts of the tale in order to convey a false impression without actually stating an inaccurate fact...
The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers
We hear it all the time: “climate denier.” We spit the term like a swear word at the Koch brothers or countless Republican politicians. It’s a label we attach to oil and gas industry executives, coal barons and those who run our power generation plants. But what does...
About those primary endorsements
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people ask me if Boulder Weekly is going to endorse in the primaries as I have this...
Spineless politicos and the devolution of the NRA
School shootings, theater shootings, concert shootings, post-office shootings, nightclub shootings, restaurant shootings, work-place shootings. The U.S. has had hundreds of mass murders in the...
Smart Track? We’re not that stupid
What does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers...
‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is more sinister than it appears
As we recently reported, a last-minute rider was slipped into HR 933, the 240-page spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on March 26. The bill was designed as an emergency measure to prevent a government shutdown, but as it turned out, it also made a pretty ...
Don’t take the bait
It was a nearly packed house Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Longmont City Council chambers as citizens who believe that local communities should have the final say over fracking in their neighborhoods turned up in good numbers...
Proposed fines won’t stop what’s coming
Put your ear to the ground on a piece of Boulder County open space and you can hear a couple of things heading your...
