Tag: jul 12 2018 issue
A drop in the bucket
A few years ago, farmer Paul Kehmeier decided not to irrigate some of his alfalfa fields for part of the season, and instead take advantage...
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Drunk as a gull
In these troubled times, we’re all doing what we can to cope, including our feathered friends.
Yes, even birds have become...
Letters: 7/12/18
On Lafayette City Council
When the Lafayette City Council votes to approve fracking pipelines to be within 150 feet from our homes, schools and water...
CMF artistic advisor Peter Oundjian will lead concerts with Bernstein theme
Peter Oundjian is the most distinguished musician to lead the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in its 43 seasons.
Since Jean-Marie Zeitouni stepped down as music...
Itty bitty witty committee
Good news for amnesiacs: Ant-Man and the Wasp is a near carbon copy of the flimsy-fun first installment. Much like the school careers of...
America was in the business of separating families long before Trump
Children are crying for their parents while being held in small cages. The attorney general tells us the Bible justifies what we see, and...
Meet the recycling queen
Marjie Griek came to Colorado for the first time when she was 15 years old. It was the ’70s, and the recycling movement in...
Applauding all abilities
In Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, the song “The Farmer and The Cowman” claims the differences between the two shouldn’t prevent them from becoming friends....
Throwin’ elbows
On Weekend Du Mort, when Boulder’s Dead Thing comes out in earnest to jiggle its head and look at its hands and dig the tie-dye...
A beautiful invitation
If ever there was a word to describe Fred Rogers — the host of the long-running PBS show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — it would...
Pot PAC targets a Sessions worse than Jeff
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not the only drug war dead-ender named Sessions in Washington.
There’s also Texas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions, who is just...
‘Socialism’ is no longer a dirty word
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t expect to become a “Democratic giant slayer” as the New York Times would call her. The 28-year-old bartender and waitress from...
