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Longmont fracking ban struck down, what now?

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It was quite a read. The further I delved into the Colorado Supreme Court’s decisions to overturn Longmont’s ban on fracking and Fort Collins’...

End municipalization secrecy

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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 collapse of compassion

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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 ...

NSA’s domestic spying program: Beware the wolf

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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...

For the record, I will be voting in secret

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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 ...

Commentary: It takes a village… of idiots

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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...

COGA lawsuits against Lafayette, Fort Collins are latest insult to citizens...

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Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) announced its intention to file lawsuits against Lafayette and Fort Collins over those cities’ election results regarding fracking. Once again, the oil and gas industry is ...

And now for the oil industry lies

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As hopefully everyone has heard by now, proponents of Initiative 97, the 2,500-foot oil and gas setback initiative, turned in 171,000 signatures to the...

Oil industry borrows page from Trump/Russia dirty-tricks playbook

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It seems like only yesterday when Comrade Trump was stealing the presidential election. We all now know he had plenty of help from Vladimir,...

Fracking activists are the Tea Party of the Left?

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Let’s recap: First, the message was the oil and gas industry equals jobs and if those who oppose fracking don’t back down, those jobs will be taken away from Colorado...

Don’t take the bait

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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...

For now, Blue Book analysis of Prop DD is all wet

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Here we go again. Every election cycle we get to peruse the Legislative Council’s Blue Book, which is supposed to guide us in an...