Guest Columns
Regulating their way to destruction
In Colorado, politicians gave up the idea of sane conversation regarding oil and gas drilling, climate change and the general preservation of the environment...
Xcel’s math defies reality and history
Xcel Energy recently announced that it would use Governor John Hickenlooper’s July executive order calling for climate change policy as reason to bypass the...
No war for Saudi oil!
Even if U.S. intelligence decisively shows that some of the drones and cruise missiles used in the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields originated...
Modernizing the canvass process for citizen initiatives
Colorado Amendment 71, Raise the Bar, passed in the November election.
It will now take a 55 percent supermajority to amend the state constitution.
Amendment 71...
Cory Gardner’s economy doesn’t serve Colorado
During these unprecedented times, Colorado needs leaders who can faithfully represent the interests of working and middle-class residents who have been ravaged by the...
I fought for our country. Now NFL players are kneeling for...
I’m a veteran of the U.S. Army. So it may come as a surprise that the day I read about NFL players kneeling during...
Danish is all about propaganda
I occasionally cruise articles by Paul Danish to see what regurgitated right-wing propaganda looks like. His article on the “slobs” of Standing Rock was exemplary.
I...
Colorado’s scripted environmentalism is an impostor for the real thing
By 2011, when my family came face to face with fracking, Colorado was already 40,000 wells into “responsible oil and gas development.” At that...
Welcoming more racial diversity through affordable housing
Boulder residents must realize that diversity is not implemented into their city by openly declaring their acceptance of it, but rather through changing structures...
It’s not my proclivity for avocado toast
I’m 25 years old, and while I do enjoy avocado toast and a latte every now and again, that isn’t what’s standing between me...
The pageantry of oil and gas bill 181
“We can put the oil and gas wars to bed.” — K.C. Becker, Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives
On Tuesday, April 17, major...
Ma Xcel, things have changed
Our situation is not comparable to anything in the past. It is impossible, therefore, to apply methods and measures which at an earlier age...
