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The hidden history of U.S.-Cuban relationship

by Dave Anderson

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t was a turning point. Beginning in 2013, the U.S. and Cuba began secret talks in Canada and Vatican City. In 2015, Barack Obama announced that formal diplomatic relations would resume and embassies would open in Washington D.C. and Havana.

John Kirk, a Canadian scholar of Latin America, says dramatic changes soon followed: “...the president visited Cuba in 2016 (the first by a sitting president since 1928), 22 bilateral agreements were signed, U.S. investment started, trade increased, hundreds of thousands of Americans visited the island, Havana became a major stop for U.S.-based cruise lines, medical co-operation on cancer research began and cultural, sports, and academic exchanges flourished.”

Was this the beginning of a new relationship between Cuba and the U.S.? It wasn’t just progressives who wanted a change. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and agribusiness had wanted to end the embargo for many years;

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Canadian and European capitalists have been making a lot of money in Cuba. The European Union is Cuba’s main export partner and its biggest foreign investor.

Then Obama’s “Cuban thaw” was abruptly ended when Trump became president.

The U.S. has had a long and tangled relationship with Cuba. As early as 1820, Thomas Jefferson expressed interest in acquiring Cuba, which was then a Spanish colony.

Many Americans took up residence and by 1877, Americans had purchased 83% of Cuba’s total exports.

Several times, Cuban rebels attempted to get American support in their struggle for independence. In the 1898 Spanish-American war, the U.S. claimed to be fighting for Cuban freedom. In the peace treaty ending that war, Spain gave the U.S. control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands and Guam. Cuba formally became an independent country and the others became U.S. territories. Cuba was under U.S. military occupation until 1901 when it was forced to sign a treaty which allowed the U.S. to intervene unilaterally in its affairs. That happened frequently. U.S. political and economic domination would be overwhelming.

In 1960, Earl E. T. Smith, the former American ambassador to Cuba, told the U.S. Senate, “Until Cassee THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8

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A close call and a second chance

by Charlie Bangs

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he light at the end of the tunnel is nearing. Sooner than I anticipated, the post-pandemic world is gradually reopening and spreading its wings. But this butterfly is much different than its predecessors. If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it is that humans are vulnerable, and nature always finds a way to remind us.

Our growing collective society has pushed the envelope to the point where we cannot entirely separate ourselves from the diseases and viruses that lurk in the wilderness. For too long the goal of mankind has been to dominate and control the plentiful resources our environment provides, which has led to unforeseen consequences: record high heat waves across the globe, devastating wildfires in California, and other natural disasters that are slowly becoming commonplace. The outdoors we so often take for granted is shifting into a volatile place. This is why more than ever we should cherish nature and embrace it as though our existence depends on it — because it does.

During this grand reopening, global emissions have surpassed what they were pre-pandemic. I fear that in this whirlwind of making up for lost time we will forget to capitalize on the valuable opportunity COVID-19 has presented us. Collectively we adapted to a reclusive world. Our education and work was conducted online, and for the most part we managed fine. The atmosphere was cleaner for a year, allowing carbon emissions to hit record lows around the world: For just a brief period, “daily global fossil CO2 emissions were around 17% below their average 2019 levels.”

As much as we would like everything to be back to normal, it would be irresponsible to return to the standard of living we have come to expect. Climate change was shoved right in our faces and we are naive to shrug it off and presume we are safe from another global climate crisis. We must build on the adaptations we made during the darkest hours of the pandemic. Committing ourselves to staying in one place reduced our need to travel. Countless car trips were saved because we realized we didn’t necessarily need to make them in the first place.

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us connect to nature locally. Playtime with close friends and family was a welcomed relief from the increased time spent in our homes. Once lockdowns began all we wanted was to be able to go outside.

In the U.S., a study conducted in 2018 indicated that children were participating in fewer outdoor activities, 15% less than six years prior. This trend is threatening because it allows our younger generations to miss the critical connection to nature that compels us to protect it. Thankfully, I feel COVID-19 sent the message that being an indoor nation sucks.

Americans can’t stay cooped up for long and the lockdown protocols showed us that.

Today, new technology entices us to detach from nature and stay indoors. Our education demands we spend time using computers, and our jobs keep us in. Part of the reason I chose to study human-environment relations was because I grew up in such a beautiful place and could not imagine an environment that is too polluted to recreate in.

For me, the pandemic reinvigorated my love for nature. Having that access taken away, not being able to enjoy the outdoors, it was something I missed the most. I certainly feel more emboldened to preserve the environment I once took for granted, and I hope that younger generations feel that same duty to take action.

This pandemic has been a miserable and extraordinary experience, we are blessed to learn the valuable lessons it has taught us. Let’s not allow the sacrifices we made to overcome this crisis be so easily swept under the rug and forgotten. If we apply the same ingenuity and perseverance to the greater climate crisis as we have to enduring COVID-19 the future looks bright.

We are fortunate to reach the end of this long tunnel with renewed hope and potential for a sustainable future for humanity and our planet. To hastily resume our lives as if nothing has changed will be one of the final nails in humanity’s coffin. The time is now to fight climate change like it’s a global pandemic This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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tro, the U.S. was so overwhelmingly influential in Cuba that the American ambassador was the second most important man, sometimes even more important than the Cuban president.”

The 1959 revolution was a big shock. American capitalists and mobsters were kicked out. An impressive welfare state was constructed, particularly in areas of education and health care from 1960 to 1990. However, it was heavily subsidized by the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, that welfare state began to fall apart.

Since, the Cuban leadership seems to be adopting a Chinese-Vietnamese economic model which combines a one-party dictatorship with an opening to both foreign and domestic capitalists.

Marc Cooper, a U.S. journalist who has covered Latin America for a number of decades, wrote in 2010: “...what exists in Cuba has never been and is not socialism. It is a freakish state plantation capitalism. Not only are workers exploited directly by the all-powerful ‘people’s state’ in which they have no voice — but for two decades now the same Cuban state has acted as a ruthless labor broker renting out portions of its oppressed and powerless work force to foreign private capitalists who have been allowed to set up shop in strategic sectors of the economy. The Cuban state charges the foreign firm a market rate in hard currency and pays the worker a meager Cuban wage while working for a Spanish, Dutch, Canadian or Mexican capitalist cartel.”

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socialist president Salvador Allende who was overthrown by a CIA-military coup in 1973. Of course, the Republicans and the Fox News propagandists can’t tell the difference between Allende and the Castro brothers. They claim any liberal reform equals socialism equals the gulag. So, it’s not surprising that when massive protests broke out in Cuba starting Sunday, July 11, 2021, and the government responded with violent repression, rightwingers claimed that America’s most wellknown democratic socialists, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were silent.

That’s a lie. Both of them denounced the Cuban government’s suppression of media, speech and protest, and also called for an end to the U.S. embargo.

During the presidential campaign in September 2020, Joe Biden said: “I’d try to reverse the failed Trump policies, they inflicted harm on Cubans and their families ... [and have] done nothing to advance democracy and human rights.”

This month, Biden expressed support for the protesters and advised the government to act with restraint.

At the very least, he needs to reverse Trump’s sanctions. He can restore the ability of Cuban Americans to send unlimited remittances to family and restore travel to the island. He may be afraid of a political backlash in Florida but if he doesn’t respond to this humanitarian crisis, we may be faced with many desperate Cubans escaping on leaky boats and rafts.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Misguided forest policy

by George Wuerthner

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hen running for President, Bill Clinton’s political adviser, James Carville, famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Clinton listened to Carville and focused on the economy — and won the election.

Today, with regards to wildfire, we should be saying over and over: It’s the climate stupid! The heat, drought and other variables caused by human climate warming is super-charging wildfires. Yet the response of most agencies and politicians is to suggest more logging/thinning as a panacea.

Congressman Joe Neguse’s legislation, the Landscape Restoration Partnership Act, is an example of this misguided forest policy. It emphasizes more logging/thinning/prescribed burning under the assumption such “active forest management” will preclude large fires.

However, fuel reductions do not change the climate or weather. And most of the scientific support for thinning/logging is based on modeling of fuel loading, not real-life experiences.

The amount of fuel is often the least important factor in fire spread when you have extreme fire weather — as we are experiencing now.

What drives large fires is drought, low humidity, high temperatures and, last and most importantly, wind — all exacerbated by climate change.

When a forest is thinned/logged, there is greater wind penetration, and the wind is the most crucial factor in wildfire spread.

Thinning also results in more fine fuels on the ground that will carry a fire.

Opening up the canopy allows greater solar penetration, meaning fuels and soils dry out quicker. What burns in a forest fire is primarily “fine fuels” like grass, shrubs and small trees.

Forest Service “thinning projects” remove the larger trees, which typically do not burn, which is why you have snags after a high-severity blaze. As most of us know from our camping experiences, often a large log placed on a fire doesn’t really burn up and requires constant heating from coals beneath it to keep it ignited.

Under the extreme conditions that drive all large wildfires, the wind effective-

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ly negates thinning benefits by blowing embers miles ahead of a fire front. Thus, embers are tossed over and around any fuel breaks or thinned stands.

The Bootleg Fire currently raging in Oregon is charring tens of thousands of acres that were previously logged or thinned. The Camp Fire that consumed 19,000 structures in Paradise, California was also surrounded by massive clearcuts, thinning and fuel reduction projects — none of which precluded the loss of homes. Similar examples of the failure of thinning or logging to halt climate/weather driven fires are abundant around the West.

Added to all these factors is the very low probability that any thinned forest stand will encounter a fire. The likelihood is around 1-2%. The majority of thinned areas are never burned during the period when they “might” be somewhat “effective.”

Thinning and logging by reducing competition for water and sun promotes the rapid growth of more fine fuels — so in 5-10 years, you have more grass, shrubs and small trees, which are the very things that burn readily in a forest fire.

However, thinning is not benign.

Thinning removes carbon stored in trees.

The disturbance from logging roads and activities spreads weeds, including cheatgrass, which is highly flammable.

Logging can displace sensitive wildlife like elk. Sediment from logging roads can fill streams harming aquatic life.

By promoting “active forest management” as a panacea for wildfire, we trade inevitable negative consequences of logging/thinning that occur today and get only a tiny chance that any fuel reduction will influence a wildfire.

We should refocus federal funding and policy toward hardening homes and communities to resist blazes, create evacuation plans, bury power lines, and otherwise prepare for inevitable fires.

Finally, we must get serious about reducing climate warming that is driving these blazes. “It’s the climate, stupid” should be the mantra heard around the West.

George Wuerthner is an ecologist who has studied wildfire for decades.

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INFO: Brewing a

Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism, by Allyson P. Brantley.

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orn and raised in Boulder, historian Allyson Brantley knows a thing or two about Coors Brewery. So a few years ago she was shocked to learn about decades of boycotts against the Golden-based brewery, starting in 1966 and stretching into the turn of the century.

Brantley initially learned of the boycotts during the first year of her doctorate studies in U.S. history at Yale.

“We were reading a classic Mexican and American history textbook and there’s a paragraph on the boycott at Coors and I was like, ‘Wow, I’m surprised that I never heard of this,’” Brantley says.

She quickly began brewing up something of her own.

“Originally I thought that I would just go home to Boulder for the summer and do some research to see if I could find enough to write a seminar paper,” she says. But her research lead her further than expected, resulting in her recently published book, Brewing a Boycott: How A Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism.

The Coors family has been heavily involved in ultra-conservative politics for decades, and starting in the 1960s and ’70s, they weren’t afraid to mesh these beliefs with their business. Discriminatory hiring practices, donations to conservative politicians, and an adamant refusal to allow a workers labor union in the company all kickstarted the boycott of Coors beer.

“Beer is a really good lens through which to study other elements in U.S. culture and history,” Brantley says. “For me, the

interest isn’t necessarily in the beer, [but] it’s such a constant consumer product in the U.S. that it touches all sorts of conflicts and developments.”

Her research started off in the CU Boulder archives, where she found a collection of records from the Brewery Workers Union that had been donated in the 1980s. But she also traveled the U.S. for the following five years collecting research, including newspaper clippings, oral interviews (conducted both by Brantley and by other historians over the years) and union records.

“For the most part, the archival collections from the boycott are really scattered across the country,” Brantley explains.

Brewing a Boycott is the first book to gather and contextualize these historical records.

Putting together the pieces of the research puzzle revealed how intertwined the boycott was with different advocacy groups. Union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community all rallied around a common foe: Coors Brewing Co. Brantley considers this intersectionality to be one of the biggest successes of the movement.

“The movement became symbolic for a lot of people, it created a lot of opportunities for multi-racial and cross-class collaboration,” she says. “It wasn’t always perfect, but it really created a foundation for future organizations.”

Brantley uses the example of queer organizations coming together to work with labor organizations in the state of California

Blueprint for a movement

In a new book, Boulder native Allyson Brantley explores how a decades-long boycott of Coors beer is a primer for intersectional consumer activism

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to boycott the Colorado company, since at the time, the two groups hadn’t seen each other as allies. In a 2019 article for the California Labor Federation, Pride at Work cofounder Kelly Wohlforth claims that “to this day, you can’t find Coors in a gay bar in San Francisco.”

The Coors boycott wasn’t just revolutionary on the intersectionality front; it also took a corporation’s political affiliations into consideration, creating a blueprint for future movements — even those today.

“It became that any activist could both see their politics in the boycott and then use their politics in how they use their consumer dollars,” Brantley says.

But Brantley says the boycotts of today differ from the way boycotting was used back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. With Coors, the boycott was exceptionally well organized: activists would get together and plan their course of action, clearly outlining the goals of the movement.

“They had regular meetings deciding how they were going to get people to turn up to events, to convince them to join in the boycott, and figure out other ways to pressure the company,” Brantley explains.

“They crafted a really clear narrative of why the company was something to boycott. It was really well organized, which allowed people to find something in it for them. Today, people who want to boycott sometimes skip that step of preparation.

There’s a lot more work that goes into a boycott than we often think.”

By the 1970s and ’80s, however, the power of labor was declining because of governmental and regulatory changes, plus the power of corporations was on the rise.

“It’s not that labor itself gave up or became weak,” Brantley says. “In the boycott we can see activism, but what they are up against becomes harder and harder to fight.”

In the last two years, Brantley says she’s witnessed more coalition-based labor activism, citing examples of workers at places like Amazon and Uber who have recently been advocating for unions.

“Companies have become much better at combating boycotts,” she says. “It’s not simply that the tool itself has been weakened.”

The boycott was a success for Coors in many ways too, as the company became adept at handling the resistance, becoming a model for other companies facing the same types of pressure.

While Brantley admits that Coors has become a much better employer over the years, she still tends to support smaller, local breweries, as BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

corporations like Coors are monopolizing the brewing industry. In 2004, the Coors family merged the business with Molson, a Canadian-based company that’s considered the oldest brewing company in North America. While the company has distanced itself from the conservative politics of the founding family, prominent Coors family members still remain involved in conservative causes, drawing calls for boycotts more recently due to their political support of Donald Trump.

To this day, the Coors company still does not permit a workers union.

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Givin’ Up This Beer for Sweeter Wine Brewery Workers on Strike, 1977–1978

by Allyson P. Brantley

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The following is an excerpt from the fifth chapter of Brewing a Boycott, which details Coors brewery workers’ 21-month strike against the company that ultimately ended in defeat for the union. A key organizing strategy during this strike was the consumer boycott. Union organizers (with Brewery Workers Local 366) sent strikers across the American West to drum up support for the boycott. Locally, a boycott support coalition also put out the word to progressive activists across the country. This section describes boycotters’ successes in late 1977 and early 1978:

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he coalition’s efforts to publicize the struggle, combined with the work of boycott organizers in the field, worked. Coors’s quarterly net income had reportedly declined by ten million dollars since the strike began, as gay men and lesbians, feminists, Chicanos, union members, and college students joined the struggle for human dignity.

Official resolutions of solidarity reached the coalition from Catholic clergy in Los Angeles, Continental Airlines flight attendants, and brewery workers in Denmark, for example. Both Willie Nelson and Paul Newman, a longtime Coors drinker, publicly backed the boycott. More informally, passersby honked loudly at boycott signs outside of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, and Broncos fans, following their team to the Super Bowl, booed at the sight of Coors balloons.

Kind words of support and solidarity — and, importantly, money — also began to arrive in the Colorado coalition’s mailbox in late 1977 and into the spring of 1978. Many supporters had heard of the boycott at work, in activist or labor publications, or on the radio. Their letters highlight the expansive network of feminists, activists, union members, and college students coalescing around the anti-Coors struggle.

Return addresses map support from Colorado, California, New York, Texas, Alaska, Oregon, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and even Tokyo and London.

Some items arrived in the form of hastily

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scrawled notes attached to small donations or orders for the coalition’s record, T-shirts, bumper stickers, or comic book. One supporter from Charlottesville, Virginia, sent two dollars in support of the strike, noting that he had “read about the boycott in several places.” Another order for twenty copies of the comic book, from a supporter in Berkeley, observed that “it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Coors at any party — people may not understand all the issues but they sure aren’t drinking scab beer.”

Other messages went one step further, pledging to spread word of the boycott and build new coalitions. Edie Merzer, a young woman in New York City, wrote that she had convinced students at Queens College to support a ban on the sale of Coors beer. She also detailed meetings with local labor leaders and her own survey of groceries and delis on the Upper East Side, many of which sold Coors — albeit illegally. If necessary, she was ready to sell boycott T-shirts and bumper stickers. “Keep those spirits high,” Merzer wrote to strikers and the coalition.

“You’ve got friends 15,000 miles [sic] away fighting for your rights!” Another letter arrived from Denise D., an employee at the Department of Social Services in San Francisco. She wrote that she began boycotting Coors after seeing posters on bulletin boards in her office.

A “collective supporting radical unionism and self-determination for Alaska’s native people” also sent a note, requesting copies of the record and comic book. The letter’s authors pledged, in turn, to ship all of state’s supply of Coors back to Golden. And from Missouri, the Crystal Set Feminists wrote asking for a free copy of the record, pledging to play it often on their nonprofit radio station.

By April 1978, the first anniversary of the continuing strike, the boycott had gained national attention, expanding well beyond organizer Dave Sickler’s expectations. Noted one Denver-area paper, “Coors beer, already famous, has become notable throughout the West for its new fame — the strike. Beer drinkers from California to Iowa have thrown their support to either the union or the steadfast Coors.” Even Time ran a story on the “formidable, if somewhat incongruous alliance of activists” supporting the boycott. The Wall Street Journal, reporting on Coors’s plunging sales, also covered the boycott, describing it as one of the most effective of the decade “largely because those companies [Coors and J. P. Stevens] have become symbols of alleged corporate injustice.” Striker Ray Marcouillier enthused: “The word is out. People are beginning to take another look at what Coors represents and they don’t like what they see.”

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nce again, the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is in jeopardy.

In 2017, the Trump administration terminated the program, although court rulings kept the program alive for those who had current and previous DACA status. When President Biden took office in 2021, he reinstated the program, and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) began processing first-time applicants again. However, on Friday, July 16, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Texas ruled the program illegal, barring the federal government from approving any new applicants.

“I am disappointed by yesterday’s ruling and its impact on families across the country, but it will not derail our efforts to protect Dreamers,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement on Saturday. “The Biden-Harris Administration — and this country — remain as committed as ever to ensuring that Dreamers are protected from the threat of deportation and are allowed to continue to contribute to this country that is their home.”

While there are about 615,000 active DACA recipients according to USCIS data, the Migration Policy Institute estimates an additional 1.3 million would be immediately eligible under the program’s original 2012 rules. In Colorado, there are roughly 14,000 current DACA holders, while another 26,000 could be immediately eligible. The majority of DACA recipients and eligible population are from Mexico. According to USCIS, there are approximately 55,000 pending initial DACA applications as of March 31, 2021, prompting the House Judiciary Committee, including Boulder Congressman Joe Neguse, to ask Secretary Mayorkas

Flyover methane monitoring underway

Angry politicians? Angry voters.

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he Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) recently began aerial surveys of oil and gas operations in an attempt to better monitor methane and other emissions from major sites in Boulder, Weld and Larimer Counties. Last week’s flight was a first for the state, funded by a settlement between the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Committee (COGCC) and Kerr McGee in relation to the 2017 Firestone gas explosion that killed two people. It was the first of many flights planned for 2021 as CDPHE is working with a variety of partners including the University of Colorado, Colorado State University and Scientific Aviation, a private company based in Boulder, among others. The aerial survey work will be paired with ground monitoring and inspections to verify data, as well as monitor emissions at smaller operations.

“We are committed to deploying advanced technology and the most capable tools to get a clear picture of methane and other emissions in the state,” said Shaun McGrath, director of environmental health and protection at CDPHE. “The resulting data will inform how we approach regulating oil and gas operations and other emitting sites in Colorado.”

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the reason for the backlog and processing delays.

Biden’s Department of Justice has said it will appeal Judge Hanen’s ruling. Meanwhile, DHS has said it intends to issue a proposed rule to protect DACA, and there are widespread calls for Congress to pass legislation to protect Dreamers — seen by many as a more permanent solution.

“DACA is an essential part of U.S. immigration law. It is based on long-standing principles of humane discretion in enforcement, and it is well within the President’s authority to make sure that immigration laws are administered even-handedly,” said UCLA Law Professor Hiroshi Motomura, who is also on the board of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN). “It’s imperative that the Biden administration take all steps to preserve and strengthen DACA, and even more importantly, that Congress act to give DACA recipients a clear path to lawful permanent residence and citizenship.”

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“Anger is a very strong, short-term emotion that motivates people into action,” said researcher Casey Stapleton, who recently earned his Ph.D. in political science at CU Boulder, in a press release. “But there can be these much more negative implications in the long term. There’s always the potential that anger can turn into rage and violence.”

Surveying 1,400 people across the country and political spectrum, Stapleton, along with research partner Ryan Dawkins at the U.S. Air Force Academy, wrote a series of fake news stories about a faux political debate on immigration policy between two candidates for an open Congressional seat in Minnesota. The results were published in July’s Political Research Quarterly. The study showed that people are more motivated by the emotions of their fellow partisans more than those with opposing views; (Democrats grew angrier as Democratic candidates did, but not if Republicans showed anger.) Additionally, the people most susceptible to shifting emotions based on rhetoric were more moderate voters — not the die-hards on either side of the aisle.

“The really far left and right are already so amped up,” Stapleton said.

“But these weakly-aligned partisans who are notoriously less likely to participate in elections were more susceptible to changing their emotions.”

In previous work, however, Stapleton’s research has shown that overall, optimistic people are much more likely to be politically active than pessimists.

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After a tuneless year, bluegrass Festivarians reunite in Lyons for a tribute to Tony Rice

By John Lehndorff PHOTOS: Above: The Bow Ties play at the 2019 RockyGrass Festival. Right: The late Tony Rice and Bryan Sutton at the 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Sutton is part of the Tony Rice tribute set at this year’s RockyGrass.

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e missed every bit of it. We had taken for granted the cool creek under the reddish cliffs, the dumplings and Greek salads, the impromptu picking sessions

rainbows and twirly dancers and discrete charms of downtown Lyons.

When the annual RockyGrass Festival was canceled in 2020, we were deprived of the live energy sparked by Sam, Béla, Del, Sierra and the other virtuosos who inhabit the RockyGrass pantheon.

Relief comes this weekend as the pandemic-delayed 49th RockyGrass Festival takes place July 23-25 at Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons. Tickets high-def livestream makes it possible for more fans to see why RockyGrass is so highly regarded.

RockyGrass won’t be exactly the same but the seating will be open — no corrals.

“We’ll be limiting the attendance to about 80% of capacity to give everyone a little more room,” says Grace Barrett, communication coordinator at Planet Bluegrass.

Food and craft vendors will still be on hand, she says,

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Those unvaccinated will be encouraged to be masked.

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49th Annual RockyGrass Schedule 49th Annual RockyGrass Festival. July 23-25, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, bluegrass.com/rockygrass July 23: The Infamous Stringdusters; Tony Rice Tribute; Tim O’Brien Band; Special Consensus; Mile Twelve; Rayna Gellert & Keiran; and Never Come Down July 24: Sam Bush Band; Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn; The Lil Smokies; Sierra Hull and Justin Moses; Tony Trischka, Bruce Molsky and Michael Daves; Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper; and Fireside Collective July 25: My Bluegrass Heart with Béla Fleck, Michael Cleveland, Mark Schatz, Bryan Sutton, Sierra Hull and Justin Moses; Del McCoury Band; Della Mae; Peter Rowan and Jerry Douglas; Twisted Pine; and The Old Gospel Ship festival will be livestreamed in HD, multi-camera video: rockygrass.mandolin.com.

Boulder’s KGNU has broadcast portions of RockyGrass live since 2008. KGNU will livestream portions of the festival on its AfterFM site. For stream and schedule: afterfm.com

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My Bluegrass Heart project, and many others. The most highly anticipated set is Friday’s Tony Rice Tribute featuring Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, David Grisman, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge and Mark Schatz.

These individual instrumental masters knew and played with Rice. Tall, gaunt, mysterious and uniquely gifted, Tony Rice died Christmas morning 2020 at the age of 69.

“When we heard the news that Tony had passed last year, we were just devastated,” says mandolinist and friend Sam Bush.

syncopations. He had a way of making the music churn and boil from within.”

He points listeners to Rice’s solo work and his contributions to J.D. Crowe & The New South, the David Grisman Quintet and the Bluegrass Album Band.

“He brought new standards of musicianship to bluegrass. He’s one of the main architects of bluegrass as we know it today,” Eldridge says.

RockyGrass is not just another festival to the veteran musician. “I’m honored to be doing this,” Eldridge says. “This was

literally my dream as a kid — to play in a band with these guys. It’s at RockyGrass, which is very special to me. I rode to RockyGrass with Tony in a black Corvette in 2003 from North Carolina. Yup, rode shotgun with Tony across America.” at Rockygrass in 2001.

Sam Bush also loves the little festival in Lyons. “RockyGrass is the only place we appear as the Sam Bush Bluegrass Band. We turn down requests to do ‘RockyGrass sets’ at other festivals. It’s

special, just for RockyGrass,” Bush says.

The band’s annual sets always close with the stage crammed with dozens of notable pickers.

“I think Tony Rice came up with the name for it,” Bush says.” One time he said: ‘Let’s have one of those community jams.’” .

John Lehndorff has written about bluegrass music in Colorado since 1980.

acoustic guitarists of the past 50 years,” Bush says. “He brought a sense of jazz into bluegrass and countless young guitarists try to sound like Tony. It’s like Scruggs-style banjo.”

The tribute is a special one-timeonly event for a musician who played at RockyGrass many times. It’s not a tour or a recording project.

“I think it’s closure for us,” Bush says.

“We’re saying goodbye. It will be an emotional sendoff to our friend.”

The youngest musician onstage Friday night, Chris Eldridge, will assume Rice’s guitar role along with Bryan Sutton.

Eldridge literally grew up in bluegrass. His dad, Ben Eldridge, played banjo in the band the Seldom Scene.

“Tony was just around. My dad was good friends with him and he would often crash at our house when he was in D.C.,” says Eldridge, who is a member of the Punch Brothers with Chris Thile and a visiting professor teaching progressive bluegrass music at Oberlin College.

“I started studying his music. I’d watch his hands and be like, ‘That’s how he does it,’” he says. “It was a magical time. I woke up to the fact I’d been around this guy all my life.”

Eventually, Rice took the teenage guitarist under his wing. “I stayed with him at his house and we’d talk about music.

It was like coaching. It was about why we are musicians. How there are certain musicians like Oscar Peterson or Vassar Clements where you know who it is after they play a few notes,” Eldridge says.

“That was paramount to Tony.”

He insists Rice’s stature shouldn’t be underestimated. guitar in bluegrass,” he says. “There’s bluegrass guitar before Tony Rice, and how he played. His timing and touch were totally unparalleled with really strange BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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BALL LUNE, PHOTO BY JOAN HOFMEYR AND BLAKE HABERMANN

7 p.m. Friday, July 23, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Tickets: $20, museumofboulder.org Join Gregg Eisenberg at the Museum of Boulder to hear a collection of original jokes and one-line aphorisms also called “laughorism” (or “epiphunnies”). Eisenberg is the author of Letting Go Is All We Have to Hold Onto: Mind-Altering Jokes, a book that weaves humor and philosophy into one.

Friends of the Library Book Sale.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, July 24, Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, lafayettepubliclibrary.libcal.com The Lafayette Public Library is closing out Summer Reading by supporting the group that makes the program possible. Support literacy and the library at The Friends of the Lafayette Public Library Foundation book sale. With books and DVDs of all genres, there is something for everyone, not to mention, everything is priced from 50 cents to $1! Stop by to support and expand your own library.

Boulder Arts Outdoors.

7 p.m. July 22 and 29 and Aug. 5, 12, 19 and 26, Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, boulderartsoutdoors.com Boulder Arts Outdoors returns with a dynamic bill of mixed performances at the Boulder Bandshell on Thursdays for the rest of July and all of August. to Xicano funk music to juggling to bluegrass. Audiences can enjoy food and drinks from local purveyors alongside the dynamic lineups of local and regional talent. Performers include longtime local favorites such as Chris Daniels and the Kings with Freddi Gowdy, 3rd Law Dance/Theater, Peter Davison and Boulder Ballet, as well as exciting newcomers, including the Elisa Garcia Trio, Lady Romeo and VisKosity Dance Collective.

Dairy Comedy Showcase with Zoe Rogers.

8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 24, Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Tickets: $15, thedairy.org Zoe Rogers once again brings a delightfully inclusive bunch of funny people to the Dairy. George Delgado is a stand up comedian and future failed actor based out of Corpus Christi, Texas. Out and proud Marine vet Billie Jo Gillispie brings a high energy, unique perspective to the stage. Georgia Comstock is a local Denver comic, easily remembered for her major sass and goofy premises. Latino comic Rick Bryan has performed at most of the clubs in Colorado (Comedy Works South and Downtown, Denver Improv, Wit’s End Comedy Club, Loonees Comedy Corner and at the Downunder Comedy Club). After retirement from the Navy in 2009, Derrick Rush moved to Denver in pursuit of a new career: stand-up comedy. He’s now a regular at Comedy Works, where he recently took third place (out of 168 comics) in the renowned New Faces Competition.

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6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, July 24, NoBo Arts Center, 4929 Broadway, Boulder, eastwindow.org east window invites you to join in an evening of live musical performance and readings of poetry Elizabeth Schantz, Junior Burke, Hillary Leftwich, Jade Lascelles, Max Davies and some surprise guests.

Phantasmagoria: A Pop-up Gallery.

6:30 p.m. Outworld Brewing, 1725 Vista View Drive, Suite B, Longmont, 720-545-2337.

Outworld Brewing presents a one-night-only immersive pop-up gallery experience featuring local artists. Groove to a synthesized mesh of electronic tunes as you weave through otherworldly displays of painting, illustration, sculpture and digital art.

MESA Sexual Violence Prevention Workshop.

Noon-4 p.m. Friday, July 23, Ryan Wellness Center, 100 Alpine Ave., Boulder. Interested high school students can register at movingtoendsexualassault.org/trainingcenter Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA), a sexual violence resource center serving Boulder County, is offering a sexual violence prevention workshop for high school students and incoming freshmen interested in learning more about sexual violence and dating violence; setting and respecting boundaries; supporting survivors; reporting sexual violence; and information on a forensic medical exam. This one-day workshop will explore the ways that young people experience relationships and provide them with skills to identify and prevent sexual violence.

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Casual Fest.

11 a.m. Friday, July 23. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.

Donation options: venmo:@diycasual; cash:$diycasual Casual Fest is a series of independent arts and music festivals at the Boulder Bandshell focused on showcasing the city’s diverse, independent art scene.

Each event will be open to public application, inviting writers, poets, political activists, speakers and artists of all varieties to perform their work in 5-10 minute slots. There will be a networking table for creatives to come create art with free supplies while listening to music and meeting people. Learn more: bit.ly/2ToP4BI

Seventh Annual Horse Ride and Lakota Culture Presentations.

6-9 p.m. Monday, July 26, Unitarian Universalist Church, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, thetipiraisers.org As the Tipi Raiser’s Seventh Annual Lakota Ride: A Ride of Reconciliation moves through the Front Range, neighboring communities are invited to any of several evening gatherings called “wicotis” (wee-cho-tee) to welcome the riders, listen to the sacred drum, hear from Lakota elders, engage in dialogue around reconciliation, see traditional dancing and share a meal. The evening cultural presentations are free to the public and offered as a way to gain understanding and awareness around the history, current realities and beauty of the Lakota culture and people. These evening events will also include honoring ceremonies for individuals, organizations and communities across Colorado’s Front Range, who have supported the Lakota People of Pine Ridge through the LakotaRide and other Tipi Raiser’s initiatives over the years.

Hippy Bluegrass Church.

10:30 a.m.-noon. Sunday, July 25. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Tickets: $5-$10 via Eventbrite, bit.ly/3en8iPB This all-ages event will feature a live bluegrass band, poetry readings, story-telling and good vibes. Nick Forster began hosting monthly Hippy Bluegrass Church “services” at eTown Hall in 2019, leading participants through energetic and thoughtful gatherings backed by an amazing cast of bluegrass musicians.

Start the day together with friends and other music lovers to sing songs like “I’ll Fly Away,” “A Beautiful Life,” “I Saw the Light,” “Angel Band,” and other staples from the genre.

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Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder:

Cole Scheifele Album Release Show — with Hunter Burnette.

7-11 p.m. Saturday, July 24. Tickets: $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

Cole Scheifele is an up-and-coming folk singer/songwriter based out of Denver, Colorado. He combines beautiful melodies with deep and thought-provoking lyrics that he says stem from his never-ending hunger to discover more about the human experience. “I don’t think we ever stop learning and digesting thoughts and feelings from the world around us,” Scheifele said in a press release. “I try to go into some of the deeper parts of the mind that can be inherently scary, but also endlessly beautiful.” Scheifele was chosen as a Top 10 Finalist out of over 400 entries for the Planet Bluegrass Rocky Mountain Folk Festival Songwriting Competition. His new album, The Hideaways, is out on July 22.

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BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder:

On The Rocks: A Modern Rat Pack Quartet. 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22. Tickets: $65.

Denver Dolls featuring Bianca and the Fly Guys. 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24. Tickets: $65.

Inspired by WWII-era shows, this sassy trio roots their music, attire and light-hearted performance in the tradition of the female groups of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s.

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SELASEE AND THE FAFA FAMILY, PHOTO BY CHARLA HARVEY

The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland:

Tenth Mountain Division. 5-8 p.m. Saturday, July 24. Tickets: $30/vehicle includes 1 person, $20/each additional person up to 6 total.

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Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder: Cha Wa with Guerrilla Fanfare. 8 p.m. Friday, July 23.

Tickets: $15-$18.

Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder:

Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Saturday, July 24.

The Wildmans. 5 p.m. Sunday, July 25.

The St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St.:

Dechen Hawk. 6 p.m. Thursday, July 22.

Selassie and The Fafa Family. 6 p.m. Friday, July, 23.

Maria Lopez. 6 p.m. Saturday, July 24.

Stone Cottage Studios Backyard Summer Concert Series, stonecottagestudios.com:

A Night of Music with Antonio Lopez & Jonathan Sadler. 6 p.m.

Saturday, July 24. Tickets: $15-25.

Red Rocks Amphitheater, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison: Orville Peck and Yola. 7 p.m. Thurs. July 22. Tickets: $40.

STS9. 6 p.m. Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24.

Guster. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 25. Tickets: $46+.

Seven Lions. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 27. Tickets: $35+.

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Author Talk: Brie Doyle — ‘You Should Leave Now.’

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BETC Theatre Truck Show: ‘John Quincy Adams.’

7 p.m. Friday, July 23, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, thedairy.org. Free.

The BETC Theatre Truck comes to The Dairy Arts Center parking lot for a free, outdoors showing of John Quincy Adams, about the brilliant but quick-tempered one-term president and Congressman. Award-winning playwright Aaron Posner (Stupid F**king Bird, Cyrano) imagines conversations between Adams and extraordinary Americans like George Washington, Frederick Douglass and Abigail Adams. From BETC’s new traveling outdoor stage, four Colorado actors chart JQA’s 70-year journey from mischievous child to reluctant diplomat to abolition advocate.

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Starkid Productions Presents ‘Firebringer.’

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‘The Threepenny Opera’: A play with music by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

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Americans are returning to their rituals

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don’t forget the iodine! Anne Waldman says, we’re taking off our sweaters

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Author Valerie Andrews reminds us that

as children, we all had the “magical capacity to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.” Oh, how I would love you to be able to recover even a fraction of those talents in the coming days. My reading of the current astrological potentials tells me that your chances of doing so are much better than usual. Your ability to connect with the eternal child and wise animal within you is at a peak.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus singer Barbara Streisand has a

shopping mall built below her large home. Its purpose isn’t to sell consumer goods to strangers but rather to stash her precious belongings and show them off when friends come over. Among the storefronts are an antique store, doll shop, costume shop and candy store. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to start building a shopping mall beneath your home, too, Taurus. If that’s too expensive or complicated, here are alternatives: 1) Revitalize your appreciation for your treasured possessions. 2) Acquire a new treasured possession or two that will inspire you to love your life even more than you already do. 3) Reacquaint yourself with the spiritual powers that your treasured possessions arouse in you.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: The Dalai Lama says there are core similar-

ities between science and Buddhism. Both keep searching for ever-more complete versions of the truth. Both employ firsthand observation and experimentation to do that noble work. If they find new information that contradicts previously held versions of the truth, both are willing to discard them.

Now that you Geminis are entering the Deep Questioning Phase of your astrological cycle, I’d love you to make generous use of the Buddhist/scientific approach. More complete versions of the truth will be available in abundance in the coming weeks — if you’re alert for them.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Cancerian artist Artemisia Gentileschi

(1593–1656) achieved the impossible: She became a supremely skilled and renowned painter in an era when women had virtually no opportunities to become artists.

Many aspects of her work distinguished her from other painters. For example, she depicted women as having strong, agile hands and arms. In Artemisia’s world, the power of women’s wrists, forearms and fingers signifies their ability to put their mark upon the world, to accomplish strenuous practical tasks with grace and flair. If I were going to paint images of you in the coming weeks, I would also portray you as having strong, agile hands and arms. I suspect you’ll have potent agency to get things done — to adeptly manipulate the material world to serve your ideals.

(Thoughts about Artemisia’s hands come from art historian Mary D. Garrard.)

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “Once upon a time”: That’s your phrase of

power these days. What do I mean by that? I’m suggesting that you will strengthen your problem-solving abilities by engaging in playful pretending for the sheer fun of it. I’m predicting that you will boost your confidence by dreaming up amusing magical stories in which you endure heroic tests and achieve epic feats. And I’m proposing that you will fine-tune your ability to accomplish practical feats if you regard your robust imagination as crucial to your success.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Virgo singer-songwriter Fiona Apple says

she’s not religious. On the other hand, she regularly kneels on the ground and announces to whatever great power might be listening, “Thank you for my problems, and I send my love everywhere.” She’s sincere. She regards her sadness and her challenges as being equally important to her happiness and success. The difficulties teach her what she didn’t even realize she needed to know, and make her

appreciate the good times more intensely. I suggest you borrow from her approach right now.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus

wrote, “Great feelings bring with them their own universe”— which he said may either be degraded or splendid, selfish or generous. I love that he allowed for the possibility that great feelings could be positive and noble. So many renowned thinkers focus on negative and ignoble states of mind. In accordance with current astrological potentials, Libra, your task is to cultivate feelings that are splendid and generous. These sentiments should exalt you, uplift you and empower you to spread transformative benevolence to those whose lives you touch.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “How can you hold on to something that

won’t hold still?” asked Scorpio poet Benjamin Fondane. In general, you Scorpios have more talent than every other sign of the zodiac at doing just that: corralling wiggly, slippery things and making them work for you. And I expect this skill will be especially in play for you during the coming weeks. Your grasp on the elusive assets won’t ever be perfect, but it will be sufficiently effective to accomplish small wonders.

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NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Sagittarian Calvin Trillin is a witty writer

with a good imagination and a flair for inventive language.

But back in school, he confesses, “Math was always my bad subject. I couldn’t convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.” You Sagittarians are authorized by the cosmic powers-that-be to borrow your style and attitude from Trillin in the coming weeks. So you shouldn’t be fixated on mathematical precision and fastidious logic; your task is not to be conceptually impeccable and scrupulously sensible. Rather, you have a license to be extra lyrical and lush and rhapsodic and humorous and irrepressible.

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: In 2011, an eBay seller produced a 19th-century photo that he said proved Capricorn actor Nicholas Cage is a time-traveling vampire. Although the character in the image did indeed resemble the Oscar-winning star, he rejected the theory, and emphatically declared that he is not a time-traveling vampire. Maybe that all sounds absurd, but I must tell you that you may soon have to deal with people’s equally inaccurate and off-kilter theories about you. My advice: Don’t take it personally. Simply correct others’ misimpressions and rely solely on yourself for definitive ideas about who you are.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: I’ve assembled excerpts of love poems

for your inspiration. Why? Because you’re entering the Intensified Intimacy Phase of your astrological cycle.

Consider using the following riffs as inspiration when you interact with loved ones. 1) “I profess the religion of love; it’s the belief, the faith I keep.” 2) “Holding your hand, I can hear your bones singing into mine and feel the moon as it rolls through you.” 3) “Raw light spills from your eyes, utterly naked, awakening an intoxicating shimmer of adventure.” 4) “I ask you please to speak to me forever.” (Poem fragments are from Ibn Arabi, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Herman Hesse, Sara Eliza Johnson, Alejandra Pizarnik.)

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PISCES

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’m not here to guilt-trip you about the fresh vegetables I know you throw out every week. There are plenty of environmental preachers who are more than willing to lecture you about why cutting food waste can save the planet, support local farmers and feed the hungry.

That’s all true, but I’m here to entice you with the possibility of getting more out of your food and saving money when grocery prices are rising.

Over time I’ve discovered little things — not big ideas — that I actually practice in everyday cooking. These practical tricks are not projects requiring a culinary degree and they aren’t expensive. They’re just easy alternatives to letting food that you paid for die in your refrigerator. Plus: They taste great.

The easiest first thing to do if you have excess fresh veggies and fruit is to peel, chop and freeze them on a cookie sheet and save in a bag.

Some harder veggies like carrots and green beans should get boiled briefly in salted water first.

Pickles in the fridge: Real canning is complicated. Instead, cut slightly wilted carrots, cucumbers, radishes and celery in small pieces.

Simmer a quart of white, rice or wine vinegar, a few tablespoons of sugar or honey, a tablespoon or more of salt, plus seasonings like garlic, mustard seeds, fresh dill, bay leaf and chili flakes. Taste and tweak the flavor. Pour over veggies in a jar and place in the fridge. Do the same with leftover store-bought pickle juice.

Vegetable broth with oomph: Save your vegetable trimmings and peelings, onion and garlic skins (but not chilies and eggplant), cabbage leaves, stems and tops from herbs to make broth that can add oomph to soups, stews and sauces. Freeze the broth in easy-to-use cubes. To bulk up veggie broth, start with saved pasta cooking water and add dekerneled corn cobs.

Herbed grilling salt: Dry fresh herb leaves including mint, basil, thyme and rosemary on a plate in a sunny window (or in the microwave). Blend dried herbs with sea salt in a coffee grinder to use as a seasoning for grilling seafood.

Turn greenery into pesto: Don’t toss herb stems, carrot tops or beet and radish greens and celery leaves. Turn them into pesto. Combine a cup each of pine nuts, grated Parmesan and olive oil, plus four large

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Words to Chew On “To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat — the problem is entirely the same in both cases: To know how much oil one must mix with one’s vinegar.”

— Oscar Wilde garlic cloves and 1 teaspoon salt in a food processor. After it’s smooth, add about six cups (or more) of herbs. Taste and adjust ingredients. Freezes well for future pasta.

The beauty of broccoli: People throw away half the broccoli, cauliflower and other cruciferous veggies they buy.

The leaves can be cooked like greens.

Peel the outer skin off broccoli and cauliflower stalks. The innards can be spiralized or shredded, then steamed, sauteed or slawed.

Amazingly easy vegetable fritters: Try these quick fritter/pancakes inspired by Jacques Pepin. Mix about 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, a sprinkle of salt, and about a cup of sparkling water. Mix in a cup of corn kernels, chopped greens, minced apple and other ingredients. Spoon into a hot skillet with 1/4 cup of oil or so.

Four minutes per side, drain on a wire rack and serve hot.

Stuffing the blossoms: Clean and stuff excess zucchini squash blossoms with a lasagna-like mixture of ricotta and Parmesan cheeses with egg and herbs. Dip it in the fritter batter (or egg and bread crumbs), and fry until crispy in oil or bacon fat. Serve with eggs over easy or chile verde.

Spud skins for munching: Much of the nutrition and flavor in potatoes is in the peels. For a surprisingly tasty snack, scrub and rinse potatoes, peel and allow peelings to drain. Mix with salt, pepper, oil and seasonings like powdered chili, then spread on a sheet and roast at 350 degrees until crisp.

Fruit for smoothies: When fresh fruit is cheap, cut it in chunks, freeze on a sheet and bag it. Peel and simmer under- or over-ripe apples, stone fruit, pears and berries and puree into a smooth sauce. Freeze for later smoothies, baking and sauces.

Your own syrups and cordials: Simmer skins, trimmed pieces and fleshy pits of peaches, apricots, plums and mangoes with water, a little sugar

or honey and vanilla. Cool, strain and use as pancake syrup. This also works with pineapple cores.

Infused alcohol: Fill a jar half full of summer fruit slices. Add a sprig or two of fresh mint. Cover the fruit with a good local vodka. Some like to add a vanilla bean and sugar. Cover tightly and forget in the fridge.

Taste, strain and bottle as gifts.

Zest your bubbly water: Every time you eat any citrus fruit — orange, lemon, grapefruit, kumquat or tangerine — don’t toss the peels! Use a zester or peeler to trim the outer zest — not the white bitter part! — and store in the freezer. Use peels to enhance soda water, and add to pies, pasta, chicken, dressings and cocktails.

Strawberry top vinegar: Really, you should hull strawberries: Pull back the green and cut out a round plug at the top. But if you just want to lop the tops off, make rose-hued strawberry top vinegar, suggests my friend Kate Lacroix. Layer strawberry tops (minus the green) and trimmings in a jar. Heat vinegar — I like rice wine vinegar — in a saucepan and pour over strawberries. Store in the fridge for a week and strain.

For more food-saving tips, listen to a series of 12 KGNU radio shorts I recorded at news.kgnu.org/category/ food-waste.

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o we have everything we could possibly want from Oskar Blues?” the waitress asks the table.

She means it too.

These days, things are a little different inside Lyons’ oldest brewery, but the hospitality remains second to none. So does the atmosphere: wood tables and booths neatly cluttered with stickers, tchotchkes and breweriana. It’s as unpretentious as a diner, as welcoming as a church picnic. Hang out here on a Wednesday afternoon, and you’ll hear some great town gossip. Come back on Friday night, and there’s a good chance you’ll

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was the case before a certain virus went around taking names.

All were crucial components when Dale Katechis opened Oskar Blues Grill & Brew on Friday, April 25,

The first in Lyons and ground zero in the revolution

a Colorado welcome?

Originally from Alabama, Katechis landed in Boulder when he ran out of money on his way to set down roots in Montana. He found work bartending at the now-razed Old Chicago Pizza and Tap House on Pearl Street, then was picked to open the Longmont branch in ’96. But when a regional manager threw a calculator at his head, Katechis split and opened his Lyons restaurant with $50,000 in advanced checks and credit cards.

The first year was quiet, and the house beer, Oskar, was brewed at Left Hand. One of the then regulars, Craig Englehorn (now of Spirit Hound Distillers), started badgering Katechis to brew his own beer. This was Colorado in the ’90s, after all: If you didn’t brew your own beer, you were nobody.

Katechis called Englehorn’s bluff, and Englehorn found a commercial brewing system for sale in California. They bought it, drove it back to Colorado, stuck it in the basement and gave Brian Lutz a call. Katechis had a homebrew recipe dating back to his days at Auburn University, and he and Englehorn had a shared affinity for North Coast Brewing’s Red Seal Ale. They just needed someone with commercial experience to

by Michael J. Casey bring the beer to life, and Lutz was the man for the job. In July 1999, Dale’s Pale Ale was born.

Like every other craft beer of the time, Dale’s was packaged in glass bottles, 22-ounce bombers to be specific. Katechis’ idea was to hand-sell them to liquor stores and drive business back to the restaurant. And for a couple of years, that’s what Dale’s did.

But then, in 2002, Cask Brewing Systems in Canada approached Katechis with a proposition: How about canning your beer? Cans are lighter than glass to transport, easy to recycle, are better at protecting the beer from light, and can go places glass bottles can’t.

It took some convincing, but Cask persisted, and Katechis relented. They made the switch and never looked back.

Dale’s took off. Katechis upgraded the brewing system from the 7-barrel system he and Englehorn brought back from California to a 20-barrel system acquired from Denver’s Great Divide Brewing Co. In 2005, Dale’s Pale Ale was named “Best Pale Ale”

in the country by the New York Times, and three years ON TAP: Oskar later, Oskar Blues opened Blues Grill & the Tasty Weasel in LongBrew, 303 Main mont: 35,000 square feet St., Lyons, 303for brewing, canning and 823-6685, oskaroffices. Years of triple-digit bluesfooderies. growth followed, and today com/lyons Oskar Blues and Dale’s Pale Ale are ubiquitous in the beer scene.

The state-of-the-art Longmont facility is one you must visit and tour at least once. But back here in Lyons, the OG still feels like a neighborhood haunt. The beer has a little more bite up here, and the eavesdropping is certainly juicer. What more could you want?

Michael J. Casey is the author of Boulder County Beer, the story of how brewers like Katechis transformed a once dry county into ground zero for craft beer in the Centennial State. Buy it wherever better books are sold.

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DRIVING UP NORTH Broadway last week I suddenly realized it was torta time.

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Other meat tortas range from carnitas with ham and cheese to the La Choza, jammed with a cheeseburger, crisp bacon, a grilled hot dog and ham. Don’t forget the pickled jalapeños.

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Dolores is a biopic about farm worker and activist Dolores Huerta, now 91, the woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers union and created the iconic rallying cry, “Sí, se puede!” but always stood in the shadow of Cesar Chavez.

Food Chains focuses on the Coalition of Immokalee

The booming business of Boulder food

According to Forbes, the Boulder-based startup Meati has raised $50 million to build a facility to make its mushroom-based meats replicating whole cuts of beef or chicken. .... Chocolate behemoth Hershey Co. has purchased Lily’s Sweets, a Boulder maker of stevia-sweetened candies. ...

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rom wildly unpredictable weather patterns to unwanted cross-pollination, there’s a lot to worry about when you’re an outdoor cannabis farmer.

So Colorado built a safety net.

Protecting cannabis farmers

With so many factors putting outdoor cannabis grows at risk, Colorado builds a safety net with House Bill 1301

by Boulder Weekly staff Passed in June, House Bill 21-1301 helps outdoor cannabis cultivators prepare for damaging weather such as early snowstorms; build working groups to discuss how to reduce cross-pollination between different types of cannabis; and even plan for business in the event of federal legalization.

Most Colorado municipalities, including those in Boulder County, prohibit outdoor grow operations. The largest percentage of the state’s outdoor cannabis cultivation is located in Pueblo, where in both 2019 and 2020, early snowstorms

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resulted in millions of dollars of losses for outdoor marijuana and hemp growers in Southern Colorado.

And because storage requirements for cannabis include safety measures like cameras, it can be tough for growers to quickly cut crops and move them to nearby facilities.

HB 1301 gives cultivators the opportunity to create emergency crop loss plans, with approval by the Marijuana Enforcement Division, for such situations.

“If you’re going to have an industry where the state is

have reported tens of thousands of dollars of loss from cross pollination.

In 2019, Pete Gendron, a grower and president of the Oregon SunGrowers Guild, told The Colorado Sun he estimated that cross-pollination is impacting about 8% of that state’s marijuana production.

“It really only takes one (male plant) to ruin your day,” Gendron told The Sun. Hemp and cannabis are major money-making crops for Colorado. According to data from the Department of Revenue, cannabis brought $2.2 billion into the state last year. And the Centennial State grows more hemp plants than any other state in the country, with nearly 45,000 acres. So it makes sense that municipalities like

is growing, the farmer should be able to take steps to protect their crop from adverse weather,” Henry Baskerville, managing partner of Denver-based Fortis Law Partners, told MJ Biz Daily.

But outdoor cannabis farmers have also increasingly had to contend with crop loss from cross-pollination.

“At about six weeks into the growth cycle, cannabis and hemp plants show either male or female traits,” explains Emily Baron Cadloff for Modern Farmer. “Only the female plants are grown for

these crops in relatively close quarters.

While HB 1301 doesn’t provide hard and fast answers for how to prevent cross-pollination, it creates a working group of more than 15 members, including marijuana and hemp growers, to come together to hammer out possible solutions such as buffer zones, staggered growing cycles or female-only growth ordinances.

And perhaps most importantly, considering the draft legislation to end federal prohibition (see Weed Between the Lines, page 38), HB 1301 gives provides for a working group that can discuss how cannabis and hemp cultivators in the state can plan for a future where cannabis is federally legalized. way: Oregon has already approved legislation that would allow cannabis companies to ship products over state lines in the event of federal legalization.

Attorney Jordan Wellington with cannabis-fo-

they’ll spread their pollen far and wide, which can result in cross-pollination of outdoor plants.

For cannabis farmers, hemp pollen could lessen the potency of their crop or create new strains that growers don’t want. For hemp producers, this can raise the THC percentage of their plants beyond acceptable levels, ruining their crop.”

In states like Oregon and Washington, where hemp production is ramping up alongside marijuana cultivation, outdoor cannabis farmers

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MJ Biz Daily that it was time for Colorado to do the same.

“One day,” Wellington said, “Colorado will compete with other states in a national and potentially international cannabis market.”

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A progressive wish-list

which indicates to some that the CAOA is little more than political theater.

“We believe this legislation is designed to fail,” Jaret Seiberg, a Cowen Washington Research Group policy analyst wrote in a research note.“It is close to everything that progressives want while providing little reason for Republican senators to back the measure.”

Sieberg argues that this bill is merely designed to politically uplift these three Democratic senators ahead of their 2022 re-election cycle. And he isn’t alone in that suspicion.

Edwin Groshans, an analyst at Height Capital Markets, echoed Sieberg’s impressions, saying he sees the legislation’s introduction as a “discussion draft” instead of an actual bill, which speaks volumes about its prospects for success (at least in its current form).

“Publicly releasing a discussion draft after months of writing the bill indicates that the behind-the-scenes negotiations have failed to generate the needed support to formally introduce a bill and begin the committee hearings and mark-up sessions required before the bill is voted on by the full Senate,” Groshans told MarketWatch.

In other words, the proposed bill wouldn’t have had

New Democrat-backed legislation is everything cannabis proponents want — but analysts claim it’s political theater

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he cannabis world was abuzz last week after Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Corey Booker (D-N.J.) proposed a new cannabis reform bill called the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA).

Though, to many, it seems unlikely the draft legislation will be passed any time soon — if it ever actually makes “We are all joining together to release draft legislation to end the federal prohibition on cannabis,” Sen. Schumer said during a news conference about the CAOA. “This is monumental, because at long last we are taking steps in the Senate to right the wrongs of the failed ‘war on drugs.’”

At 163 pages in length, it’s a robust proposal, addressing everything from de-scheduling cannabis, to expunging people’s prior convictions, allowing petitions for resentencing, establishing cannabis tax rules, allowing states the authority to establish their own individual cannabis laws, removing collateral consequences for non-violent cannabis crimes, funding equity programs, and transferring regulatory authority from the Drug Enforcement Agency to the Federal Drug Administration.

“While red and blue states across the country continue to legalize marijuana, the federal government continues to lag woefully behind,” Sen. Booker said during the news conference. “It is time for Congress to end the federal marijuana prohibition and reinvest in communities most impacted by the failed war on drugs.”

The bill proposal is so robust, in fact, that some political experts and market analysts are skeptical of its political practicality. As they point out, it’s essentially a liberal wish-list for federal cannabis legislative offerings — a list with little practical bargaining value with Democrats from more conservative states, as well as many Republicans,

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for legislation, the CAOA is yet another step in the right direction for cannabis in the U.S. Currently, there are more cannabis bills working their way through Capitol Hill than ever before: there’s the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, that would decriminalize cannabis federally, and eliminate criminal records for those with non-violent cannabis crime records. Then there’s the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, protecting banks from federal retribution if they chose to work with cannabis businesses. And most recently, the Republican-sponsored VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act, which directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a formal study on the effects of cannabis on PTSD, chronic pain and other health issues vets often suffer from.

All of these bills take drastically different approaches to de-scheduling cannabis and are being reviewed by various congressional committees currently. And Sens.

Schumer, Wyden and Booker’s new discussion draft has certainly served the purpose of fueling the discussion around cannabis legalization and pushing it further into the limelight of Congress.

Even Surgeon General Vivek Murthy chimed in on cannabis’ draconian status as a Schedule I substance, in the wake of the CAOA proposal’s release.

“When it comes to decriminalization, I don’t think that there is value to individuals or to society to lock people up for marijuana use,” Murthy said in a CNN appearance, discussing the CAOA. “I don’t think that serves anybody well.”

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