Author: The Boulder Daily Camera

A young, undocumented Syrian musician blends into the multicultural mosaic that is New York City, falls in love with a young woman from Senegal, lives beneath the radar. Then one day he draws the attention of two city police officers for no significant reason and the life he has known is over. Sound familiar? But…

Gene Camp’s recommendation that the Colorado Public Utilities Commission reject the separation plan Boulder submitted to establish a municipal electric utility sets up an interesting test of City Council’s relationship with the real world. Camp is the PUC’s chief engineer and manages its energy section staff. As always, anything is possible, but his recommendation is…

It’s not that Betsy DeVos is a billionaire, or that she, her husband and kids didn’t attend public schools. It’s not even that her family has given donations to the very people who made her education secretary on Tuesday that makes her an unqualified and unsettling choice for the position. No, it’s her antipathy for…

  Thank God that at least part of the government is functioning as it ought to. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a temporary freeze on the president’s misguided ban on travel from seven mostly Muslim countries and his suspension of refugee resettlements. Ostensibly, President Trump wants to…

President Trump’s original plan was to announce his nomination for the Supreme Court on Thursday – Groundhog Day – which would have been perfect. Unfortunately, the mess he made of an executive order aimed at Muslim refugees and immigrants, spawning a public backlash last weekend, required him to change the subject by moving up the…

If state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman wants to waste Colorado taxpayers’ money on a premature legal battle with Boulder County, we encourage the county to give her one. We think she’s wrong on the legal merits, and that she basically admits it in her correspondence with the county. She “suspects” that the county will violate…

One of the applause lines of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was his suggestion that he would bring back waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Trump later drew back to some degree from that sickening suggestion, but the idea that his administration might subject suspected terrorists to torture keeps resurfacing. Last week…

President Trump’s executive order to build a wall on the Mexican border won’t go down as America’s finest hour. But at least the policy he’s setting out is more moderate than his campaign rhetoric and makes some concessions to immigration reality. Mr. Trump ran and won on mass deportation of illegal immigrants and building a…

To lie, according to Merriam-Webster, is “to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive.” It is the seventh of the nine words in that definition that has historically stopped journalists from describing demonstrably false statements as lies. Absent an ability to read minds, intent is generally harder to verify than statements of alleged fact.…

So what’s next? This past weekend’s massive Women’s Marches across the country (and beyond) brought together supporters of diverse political agendas: Women’s reproductive rights. Climate change. Public education. Immigration. Voting and human rights. And that’s just for starters. Added together, it has been called the largest demonstration in American history. In a nation that seems…