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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...
On a positive note… mostly
Folks often ask me why we don’t report more “good news.” I usually fire back something along the lines of “nobody wants to read...
The oil and gas war is over?
“Today, with the signing of this bill, it is our hope that the oil and gas wars that have enveloped our state are over,...
Failure to extend drilling moratorium sparks talk of recall election for...
If the emails crossing my screen these days are to be believed, then last week’s vote by the Boulder County commissioners to allow the county’s moratorium on oil and gas drilling to expire is shaping up to be the Lexington/Concord of the great fracking showdown...
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...
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...
Humpty Dumpty, Jews and Armageddon
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...
Don’t trade pennies for your planet
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 ...
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 ...
The chain of lies that makes ‘yes’ on Prop 112 a...
As I have written in this space many times since 2014, there are numerous important reasons why the citizens of Colorado badly need increased...
The unreported story behind Trump’s CO visit
It was a typical Donald Trump moment. After coming to Colorado for a couple of rallies so he could insult everyone and explain nothing,...
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 ...
