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It’s time to slow down and think a bit smaller
I’ve had trouble recognizing this country lately, which is my way of saying we’ve gotten pretty cruel and shortsighted when it comes to how...
Why I refused my GOP debate press credentials
Like every other news organization, we were excited when it was originally announced that CNBC’s GOP presidential debate was going to be held at CU’s Coors Events Center. But since that original announcement, the debate has become embroiled in one controversy after ...
The coming storm of fracking operations in Boulder County
As Boulder County struggles to rewrite its current oil and gas regulations, the petroleum extraction industry has already begun its blitzkrieg of our lands. As clearly illustrated by the maps included here, a wave of environmental and property value destruction is ...
Commentary: It takes a village… of idiots
Running this story on Facebook is not our way of whining about Boulder Weekly’s business model. Fortunately, we never made page views and unique visitors...
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...
Heartless no more
These are the words I wrote in November 2018 when I asked for your help to save the life of Victor, an undocumented immigrant...
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...
For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet
Well, if you haven’t figured it out in recent weeks by reading this column, I’m really tired of politicians who just can’t seem to...
Time for Longmont voters to push back on disgusting ‘push polls’...
First off, let me just warn you that I’m pretty angry about what’s going on in Longmont’s city council races. I’m upset because I naively thought, or at least hoped, that as a community we had matured and moved beyond the kind of childish, unsophisticated politics ...
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...
Reality TV hits the National Mall
I’ll say this as delicately as I can: Anyone who thinks it’s patriotic to roll tanks down our National Mall on the Fourth of...
NSA’s domestic spying program: Beware the wolf
This is not an easy column to write in a calm voice or free of profanity, but I’ll give it my best shot. That said, please feel free to toss in all the mental expletives you want as you read along. I’m sure you’ll know just where to put them...
















