Danish Plan
Why the latest climate report will be ignored
I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...
How to increase Colorado’s water supply
President Barack Obama gave a speech last week in California, which is enduring the worst drought in its recorded history, and he called on the country to rethink how it deals with water...
Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder
Come November, Boulder voters will be asked whether they want to throw the city’s franchise with Xcel Energy under the bus and set up a municipal electric utility in its place. Voters will also be asked to double the city’s carbon tax (to 0.99 cent from 0.49 cent), ...
Russia’s war on GMOs
According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...
Who wants a big, cool rocket?
A couple of days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully flew its Falcon Heavy rocket last week, a USA Today headline asked: “SpaceX Falcon Heavy —...
Polis plays the Nazi card
Following the passage of Arizona’s new immigration law last month, Boulder Congressman Jared Polis unburdened himself of the following thoughts to the POLITICO website: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second-class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II...
Is this the end of Boulder as we know it? Yep
Former Boulder City Councilman Steve Pomerance had an op-ed piece in the Daily Camera last Sunday that appeared under the headline “Is this the...
The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses
Donald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of...
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
The muni’s time has passed
Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started.
Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...
Think globally, and fry locally
Heh. According to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Climate Change, windmills can cause global warming...
Boulder needs a municipal oil company
Many Boulder residents chafe under the tyranny of Big Oil, which supplies the gasoline, natural gas and asphalt in the Whole Foods parking lot on which their survival depends...
