Op-Ed Articles
Fried: Are Fort Collins Employees Citizens or Serfs?
Next week Fort Collins will mail you a ballot for the June 10 special election that boils down to one simple question: Should we amend the city charter so city employees have the right to join a union? Every other working person in town—whether they...
10:45 a.m. MT May 13, 2008 |
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Notebook: Why I'm holding out hope for Hillary
When it comes to national politics, I’m unabashedly rooting for Hillary Clinton to stay in the race for the Democratic nomination even though she has as much chance to win as Mayor Billy does of scoring another Rotary Club junket.
10:43 a.m. MT May 13, 2008 |
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Inside Politics: Picking up the leftovers
After all the worries about the legislative session lasting until the last second, lawmakers wrapped up their work Tuesday night, with Democrats and Republicans each claiming victory for key reforms.
2:56 p.m. MT May 8, 2008 |
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Grace Notes: Spicy Women with Flirty Eyes
This column is for the women who come when we call. The ones who keep our kids when we are late home and then feed them quesadillas and red grapes when we’re still not home.
2:18 p.m. MT May 8, 2008 |
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Notebook: Another reason I don't run marathons: Trains
Try as I might, I cannot be a runner.
3:13 p.m. MT May 7, 2008 |
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Fried: Frankly, My Dear, I Still Don't Want a Dam
It's even worse than we thought.
3:13 p.m. MT May 7, 2008 |
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Fried: Schaffer's Macaca Moment in the Marianas
Is Bob Schaffer having his macaca moment over the Mariana Islands?
1:52 p.m. MT Apr 29, 2008 |
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Notebook: Failing my friends
I figured out a few weeks ago that I average about 65 hours of work per week when you calculate the early-morning catch-up on emails, the late nights editing and writing, and the weekends I spend brainstorming and nurturing along other projects that...
1:49 p.m. MT Apr 29, 2008 |
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Piotraschke: Playing With Grandma
My daughter sailed down the slide, giggling along the way.
4:29 p.m. MT Apr 22, 2008 |
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Fried: If Timnath Jumps Off a Cliff, Should Fort Collins Follow?
Our City Council stood up for residents last week by rejecting a request to upzone the northeast corner of Prospect and I-25 from industrial to commercial in order to accommodate a regional shopping center.
4:24 p.m. MT Apr 22, 2008 |
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Boucher: The Anti-Growth Majority Strikes Again
Skeptical that Fort Collins doesn't deserve its “anti-business” reputation?
2:53 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Renewable Energy Policy Balances Priorities
Renewable energy policy is complex and often misunderstood. A case in point is the treatment of "Renewable Energy Credits" in an April 7 Coloradoan article about Fort Collins and Platte River Power Authority energy policies.
2:20 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Outcomes Matter—RECs Are a Sham
Fort Collins is missing an opportunity to truly be a leader in renewable energy.
2:19 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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Grace Notes: Doldrums, Buff Brahmas and Fiona
I’m stuck in the middle of the kind of day we don’t want to admit we have: bad-for-no-good-reason, lousy just because, brim full of doldrums. So much actual bad goes on in the world, that “bad-for-no-good-reason” feels indulgent, guilty, wrong.
2:06 p.m. MT Apr 17, 2008 |
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