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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...
Smart Track? We’re not that stupid
What does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers...
End municipalization secrecy
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...
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...
Oil and gas setback measure heading for ballot
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause.
As of Wednesday Dec. 20, language for a new ballot measure aimed at putting increased setbacks for oil...
Is City Council above the law?
At a City Council meeting a couple weeks back, Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum spent a fair amount of time suggesting that Boulder’s elected leaders need to do a better job of filling out their legally required disclosure forms, which were, of course, designed to shine ...
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 ...
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...
You might as well cut off our hands
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...
Defining the real ‘goons’ in Boulder’s fracking debate
Well, it’s time for another meeting with Boulder County commissioners as they try to move ahead with rewriting the oil and gas regulations that govern our backyards...
Vaya con Dios
I had a hard time sleeping last Monday night. I kept thinking about that cowboy, Patrick Schumacher, sitting in jail, no doubt worrying about his horse Dillon and his 12-year-old pug Bufford, who had been more or less arrested Sept. 10 along with the cowboy as the ...
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...
