Opinion

A fracking conflict of interest

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ExxonMobil, Halliburton and other giants of the hydraulic fracturing industry not only are fracking deep gas wells all over our country, they’re also trying to frack our heads...

Letters | Finley’s poison pill

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Correction: A July 26 Uncensored column, “Mental health care, not gun laws,” incorrectly stated that among the laws believed to have been broken by the suspect in the July 20 Aurora movie theater shootings was that he had acquired an extended magazine for his AR-...

The Koch brothers’ black liquor moonshine

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Question: If you mix a cocktail of “black liquor,” biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies — then have it shaken vigorously by Sen. Mike Crapo and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists — what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers Moonshine...

No water for fracking? No problem

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One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...

Letters | Thanks for Longmont piece

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I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2...

Sandy Weill’s apt epitaph: Pigs fly

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Why isn’t Sandy Weill treated as a crook? He not only violated the law, but arrogantly flaunted it. Yet the system treats the criminal acts of Wall Street Royals like him as the by-product of “financial innovation.” Far from criminal, you see, Weill simply suffers ...

Letters | Frack tracks, revisited

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Frack tracks, revisited...

Insider tips profit biggest hedge funds

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The high-rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast. Doing this, they assert, is ...

State of Colorado bullies Longmont on behalf of oil and gas...

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Longmont city council members knew that the state might sue their community over the new oil and gas regulations that they passed a few weeks back. But it was a risk that they were willing to take in order to protect their town’s residents’ health, property values ...

A typical massacre in Aurora

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In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...

Letters | Misleading frack job

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Misleading frack job...

Jerry Garcia’s 70th

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If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart ... I’ll always be with you...