Opinion
Colorado ‘promotes’ natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River
Parachute Creek is now officially contaminated with cancer-causing benzene and heaven knows what else. A carcinogenic stew is now making its way quickly down the creek and presumably into the Colorado River a mere four miles away from the source of the contamination...
Big day in American history
April 19 is a big day in American history, maybe even the biggest. Doesn’t ring a bell, huh? Here’s a clue. It was a cool and misty morning...
Letters | Tell Danish about drought
Correction: The April 11 story “A taste of the world’s music at CU” was written by Peter Alexander, not David Accomazzo...
Saving our ravaged planet — and ourselves
Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep? Or cheer? Both. The first step toward any recovery is admitting that we have a problem. In fact, beaucoup of them. For example, despite the squawking of profiteering polluters and...
‘Monsanto Protection Act’ is more sinister than it appears
As we recently reported, a last-minute rider was slipped into HR 933, the 240-page spending bill signed by President Barack Obama on March 26. The bill was designed as an emergency measure to prevent a government shutdown, but as it turned out, it also made a pretty ...
Letters | Danish and fracking
(Re: “If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming,” Danish Plan, April 4.) I read your recent column about fracking and global warming. While I believe there is validity to your arguments, I feel that you are completely ignoring a critical piece of this...
Corporate chiefs say America is unattractive
I like the word “lift.” It implies upward progress and a can-do communal spirit: Yes, let´s all put our backs into it, and lift this load. It´s so American...
If you don’t like fracking, hope you like global warming
So you don’t like fracking, huh...
Letters | Marijuana growers should pay more for electricity
(“Where the grass isn’t greener,” Boulderganic, March 28.) These high-use customers drive the need for increased supply, which all customers have to pay for. A gas electric plant costs in the neighborhood of $80 million. Should we all have to pay increased rates, or ...
Texas natives tussle with foreign invaders
Turf wars can be the silliest of all scuffles, and no place does silly with more zeal than Texas...
Letters | We could stop an ice age
I occasionally appreciate Paul Danish’s contrarian views, but sometimes they need to be answered — especially when the issue is something as important as climate breakdown...
Fracking the First Amendment
It’s one thing for Big Oil frackers to bust into our Earth, our communities and our economic well-being — but the fracking fad is also busting the free speech rights of locals who dare to speak out against it...