Tag: Jan 21 2016 issue
Melting Cordillera Blanca
Blacker than the thoughts that lurk in the corners of your mind, tiny particles come to rest on the pristine face of secluded glaciers...
ICUMI (in case you missed it) An irreverent and not always...
CU debate made fake money
The University of Colorado Boulder announced this week that it spent over $764,000 to host a Republican presidential debate last...
Fruit of the brain
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A political cartoonist and a classical musical composer meet at a neuroscience conference in Austria. As...
Rethinking the tasting note
This first wine is a fighter; he’s loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side.” As I led a recent seminar,...
State officials say repealing Obamacare wouldn’t be beneficial
Since Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, Congressional conservatives have tried to repeal the health care law more...
Changes to the Endangered Species List; Spread of Ebola, other diseases...
Changes to the Endangered Species List
In early January, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) replied to many petitions regarding the Endangered Species List,...
Letters: 1/21/16
Colorado Wildlife Commission is stacked with business lobbyists
The article by Caitlin Rockett expertly reveals the lopsided role played by the Colorado Wildlife Commission...
Cage match! Canada/New York edition
Cage match!
Trump and Cruz are down in the mud and the blood and the beer, punching and kicking and clawing and generally trying to...
Watering America’s food factories
Water scarcity is getting scary, and banning long showers is not even a drop in the solution bucket.
The biggest water sponge by far is...