Tag: Apr 27 2017 issue

Letters: 4/27/17

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Protesters on oil rigs I must wholeheartedly agree with the letter from Heather Miyazawa regarding “protesters” trying to interfere with oil rig operations!! My...

The March for Science and the missing protest sign

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Whatever else last weekend’s marches for science accomplished, they produced some of the best protest signs in years. (My favorite for sheer comedic creativity...

Why Paul Ryan should sit down and be very quiet

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For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen. Indeed, in just the...

Building trust through breaking borders

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It seemed like an ordinary morning. Ana was sitting in the passenger seat typing her final paper while her husband Victor drove her to school....

Hemp for victory (but not in Boulder County)

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Artie Elmquist, a Weld County farmer with Boulder County ties, thinks he has the answer for corn growers who are getting hammered by plunging...

Report highlights an increase in oil and gas spills in 2016

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Colorado experienced 509 oil-and-gas-related spills in 2016, and experts expect more spills this year as production and drilling activity around the state increase. These findings...

Wild Standard sets the standard

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When I was a kid, my parents used to bundle me up in the back of my mom’s old Pontiac Grand Am at some...

From Trane to Allan to Abasi

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Interviewed in 2014 by premierguitar.com, one of the pre-eminent guitar enthusiast websites, Animals as Leaders guitarist Tosin Abasi talked about “Ka$cade,” one of the...

The independence of it

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A few years ago, Jennifer Pyjas slipped into a coma after an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant. It took a year in the hospital, but Pyjas recovered...

Wedding bells

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Weddings have a way of bringing me to a point of excruciatingly thorough reflection — thinking about the choices I’ve made and what they...

Getting rid of the Harmful 7

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Pesticides, trans fats, high fructose syrup: Our modern lives are surrounded by ingredients that many argue are undermining our health slowly but surely. While...

‘The twain shall meet’ at The Dairy

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"East is East and West is West,” Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “and never the twain shall meet.” Kipling never met Reena Esmail. A composer who...