Opinion

Boeing’s ‘virtual fence’ comes a cropper

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It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic “virtual fence” be built to detect “bad guys” trekking into our country. Of course, like all things Bush, he ...

Letters | Marijuana growers should pay more for electricity

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(“Where the grass isn’t greener,” Boulderganic, March 28.) These high-use customers drive the need for increased supply, which all customers have to pay for. A gas electric plant costs in the neighborhood of $80 million. Should we all have to pay increased rates, or ...

If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming

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So you don’t like fracking, huh...

USA: low wage nation or good jobs nation?

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How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...

Yee-haw! Perry for president

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The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...

The ‘Climate Name Change’ campaign

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Environmental groups tend to be a bit grim-faced, since they’re constantly confronting industrial uglies that range somewhere between awful and apocalyptic. So it’s a treat when one of them turns impishly playful, as a group of climate change activists called 350 ...

Letters | Vote YES on Proposition 103

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Vote YES on Proposition 103...

Kissing bankers’ butts

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Oh them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants ...

The real stink in Flint, Michigan’s water scandal

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The governor and his agency heads who caused the sudden appearance of lead and other toxics in the water that the families of Flint...

Letters | Fossil fuel apologist

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Correction: The May 3 cover story, “Garden wars,” referred to the North Boulder Recreation Center as the East Boulder Recreation Center...

Letters | GM no!

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GM no...

Obama learns to love fracking

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President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, June 25, in which he outlined his vision for saving the country, world and civilization as we know it from the horrors of global warming...