Tag: Dec 08 2016 issue
Tour de brew: 300 Suns Brewing
For years I worked a tasting counter at a winery in Los Angeles. It was a fairly sizable operation with a strong output, and...
Victory, for now
Just as promised, veterans started arriving at the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest camps in the final days leading up to the government’s Monday,...
Erasing creation
It’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce...
Astrology 12/8/16
ARIES
March 21-April 19: “I frequently tramped 8 or 10 miles through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an...
The thundering launch of GOES-R
As the Atlas V rocket’s inferno lit up the night sky early in the evening of Nov. 19, 2016, it was as if the...
Boulder County’s war on pot growing
In 2012, Boulder County electors voted 2 to 1 for legalizing recreational marijuana in Colorado. Amendment 64’s margin of victory in Boulder County was...
100-mph moments
Ian Reid arrives late for his interview. He’s hard to recognize at first, with a full-face helmet and motorcycle leathers giving him an urban...
ICUMI (In case you missed it)
A big win for the platypus, oh and people
with diabetes
Be honest. How many times a year do you think about the platypus? If...
Letters: 12/8/16
Response to Anderson
It is clear, by reading that article , Mr. Anderson is just another whining liberal. Hillary Clinton is the biggest crook coming...
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...
Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide
The County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their...
How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?
Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” ...