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Oil industry borrows page from Trump/Russia dirty-tricks playbook
It seems like only yesterday when Comrade Trump was stealing the presidential election. We all now know he had plenty of help from Vladimir,...
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...
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 ...
A Visit from St. Vladimir
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
staggered aging underwear models, and a giant orange louse;
The fishnet stockings were hung...
Patriotism on life support
Warning: I wrote this at 4 a.m. while feeling pretty angry and cynical, so read on at your own peril.
I really do love my country,...
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...
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...
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...
State of Colorado bullies Longmont on behalf of oil and gas...
Longmont city council members knew that the state might sue their community over the new oil and gas regulations that they passed a few weeks back. But it was a risk that they were willing to take in order to protect their town’s residents’ health, property values ...
Beyond the brink
This was a bad week for our country. Like so many other times in the last couple of years, racism boiled to the top...
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...
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...