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Thanks to you

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I thought Boulder Weekly was an important endeavor 25 years ago when it launched. And while I’m happy to say that I was right on...

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...

In the real world, playing politics on immigration is a lot...

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Voices on the wind… We freeze...

Don’t trade pennies for your planet

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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 ...

Proposed fines won’t stop what’s coming

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Put your ear to the ground on a piece of Boulder County open space and you can hear a couple of things heading your...

For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet

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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...

Hate makes us stupid

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There’s some interesting research out there that should give us all pause. To put it in laymen’s terms: Our friends in academia have found...

‘Being There,’ the remake; starring Donald Trump

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You’re not crazy and it only feels like déjà vu. The truth is, that nagging feeling you’ve seen this show before isn’t wrong. You...

A 1,000-week conversation

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It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...

Spineless politicos and the devolution of the NRA

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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...

The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers

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We hear it all the time: “climate denier.” We spit the term like a swear word at the Koch brothers or countless Republican politicians. It’s a label we attach to oil and gas industry executives, coal barons and those who run our power generation plants. But what does...

Time’s up for KKKommander-in-Chief

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Before I say anything else, I want to thank Heather Heyer for being strong enough, brave enough and committed enough to attend the counter...