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Job market not so much to brag about

by Ken Bonetti

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oticing all the rosy accolades about the job market in the commercial media, one would think the economy is on cloud nine and workers are in hog heaven: “The job market added a stunning 531,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.6 percent—a new pandemic-era low.”

And: “Employment gains were particularly strong in restaurants and bars, which added nearly a hundred and twenty thousand jobs.”

These are just a couple of examples of the ecstatic media pronouncements of workers’ deliverance from the COVID doldrums. We all should be popping the champagne corks.

Yet, as many might suspect, reality exists in a different universe. First, restaurants and bars are among the lowest paid professions, nowhere near what manufac-

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turing used to pay before millions of those jobs were shipped to China and Mexico under various bipartisan trade agreements since 1994, as low wages, lax environmental and workplace regulations and currency manipulation have priced U.S. workers out of the global market or forced them to accept much lower pay. If we’re gauging the economy on the lowest-wage jobs, we’ve certainly reached the lowest common denominator.

Another job market reality not presented by the corporate media is the true state of “unemployment.”

Statistics reported to portray the situation are cherry-picked to paint the brightest possible picture so struggling workers won’t see a systemic problem, but blame themselves instead. The statistic almost exclusively quoted in the media is the U-3 unemployment rate that now stands at a seemingly respectable 4.6 percent.

But this measure paints a distorted picture. It excludes discouraged job seekers who stopped looking in the past four weeks and part-time workers who want full time work. It also excludes those toiling at a below subsistence wage. Another measure, U-6, which includes the first two groups, is almost never reported. Adding workers who don’t earn a living wage, pegged at $20,000, to U-6, the real un-and-under-employment rate was 25.1 see OPINION Page 6

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THE WORLD DOES NOT HEAR The COVID-19 virus eludes identification and capture. Relentless efforts by science has not found the origin or cause of the virus. This is a telling of the longtime self-imposed limitations by science and western medicine. There may be a not-so-complicated explanation, but one with complex content.

Before the pandemic, humanity was in trouble. The climate crisis was choking life out of the planet, the racial dynamic between a minority of white folks and people of color was ugly. Now, as the world struggles to get past the pandemic, these troubles have gone from critical to imminent danger.

The climate crisis is overwhelming, the extractive industry in complicity with most governments obstinately and exponentially continue to do what they do; make more money irrespective of the environmental and human devastation they leave behind.

Across America, the fervor of white supremacy metastasizes, brazenly flying its flag of racism, neo-liberal capitalism, conspiracies, and mean-spirited policy across the country. The coveted United States is uncompromisingly polarized. White folks are imploding their government and society. Some who never imagined themselves to have inclinations of “white is right” find themselves aligned or sympathetic with the agenda and rhetoric of white supremacy. It must be genetic by now; the notion of white superiority is rooted in ancient history.

Even while her skin scorches, the Earth is alive, her spiritual essence continues to pulsate. She may die or she could live; humankind decides her fate. This reality is unfathomable, of zero relevance to the majority of white folks, particularly those of the white supremacy persuasion. They imperil the future of the grandchildren.

The COVID virus is a phenome-

non of nature. It is a living organism; it is alive with death.

Any living thing when threatened with injury or death will defend itself.

The Earth is fighting for her life, engaging her defenses. The virus appears to be a defense mechanism of the Earth. If that be true, it is commonsensical to think that the severity of the virus will be proportionate to the severity of injury inflicted on the earth and the extremity of injury perpetrated by the inhumanity of hatred.

A mother instinctively protects and defends her children. The Earth Mother defends her children who believe in truth and want to live being who they supposed to be. The Earth is rebelling against the extreme exploitation of her body entity and the brutal oppression of her victimized children.

The message from the Earth is clear but the world does not hear.

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Democrats are alarmed at the rise of Donald Trump and at the existence of the Proud Boys. What’s more important to them—protecting capitalism, or fighting racism?

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ORGANIZED LABOR CHALLENGES RACISM The strike at King Soopers stores should remind people in Boulder County that unions still exist and fight for the working-class. But there’s one thing that has been missing in that discussion that is also missing in the discussion of racism in America, and that is the role of unions in rolling back racism among the white working class. For about 25 years now the leadership of America’s unions is mostly if not almost totally anti-racist.

In a column included in a 1998 collection of his work in previous decades, Northern Ireland journalist Eamonn McCann wrote that the labor movement had the most potential to eradicate religious bigotry in Northern Ireland. He wrote: “No other institution brings Catholic and Protestant workers together on a regular basis in pursuit of a common purpose which is antipathetic to sectarianism.” McCann’s columns have been published by an average of

two professional publications (magazines or newspapers) at any given time in the last 40 years and he has held senior positions in Ireland’s labor movement for three-to-four decades and he was one of the main leaders of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2016 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly. He is an expert on fighting sectarianism in Northern Ireland and believes that organized labor has a crucial role to play.

Many people believe that there are great similarities between the conflict in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and the conflict over racism in this country. This includes people like Angela Y. Davis and in 1972 the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I believe unions here play a role in combating racism and that that can be escalated when they return to the level of strength they were at before their decline began decades ago. If racist working-class whites see multi-cultural anti-racist unions negotiating collective bargaining agreements that they benefit from, many of them will start to question racism.

Unfortunately many fiscally moderate and conservative Democrats have declined to vote in favor of strengthening labor unions. I’m sure these same

rate. Lending Club reported in July that 54 percent of consumers live paycheck to paycheck and 21 percent are struggling to pay their bills.

In April, Career Builders reported 34 percent of women and 45 percent of Black Americans accepted a pay cut to become employed again after leaving their jobs during the recession.

As the economy is shredding the

American Dream, the Democratic-controlled Congress has wasted much of the year failing to pass legislation that might improve the economic situation for most workers. Obstructionists on both sides of the aisle spend more time trashing proposals that could actually help people, instead blaming “minorities,” “immigrants,” and “big government” for the economic pain their constit-

uents may be feeling. But hey, be happy. The economy’s booming for millionaires and billionaires . . . ain’t it?

—Ken Bonetti, on behalf of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Economic Justice Collective

TEST THE PEE! If this “idioture” wants more COVID testing, the first thing that must be done is to make the tests themselves less obnoxious. I mean, seriously, sticking sticks up noses—in the freaking twenty-first century?

Goddess bless!

Okay, Star Trek medi-scan tricorders are still unrealistic (although they really shouldn’t be!). But surely with all the “techy-types” running around loose, someone could come up with cheekswabs (works to collect DNA) and urine tests, which have been used for decades to find other types of infections.

Many colleges and universities tested wastewater from dorms early in the pandemic and focused testing based on the results. Why wasn’t this pursued to create “at-home” type testing? People pee naturally… or is there actually desire to keep this procedure painful and unpleasant?

Lora Hansen-Beard / Boulderx

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percent in September.

These more descriptive figures might give one a clue why a whopping 71 percent of Americans think the economy is moving in the wrong direction according to an October NBC poll. Add to that the fact that surveys reveal the vast majority of Americans are struggling with financial issues that the recently created jobs fail to amelio6

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A DAM SHAME?

Boulder County begrudgingly accepts Denver Water’s settlement to expand Gross Reservoir, after nearly two decades of fierce opposition

by Will Brendza DENVER WATER

AT THE TOP OF GROSS DAM, Denver Water is already beginning preliminary work on the expansion project.

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It’s hard for locals like Seth Cousin, who lives on Gross Reservoir, to imagine what it will look like after the dam has been raised over 131 feet and hundreds of acres of wooded hillsides have been submerged. It’s hard to imagine fleets of construction trucks and machines crawling around the reservoir, the floodlights that will keep the project illuminated at night, and the amount of dust that will hang in the air until construction is complete in 2027.

Soon enough though, they won’t have to imagine it. Thanks to a small hydroelectric component at the bottom of the dam, the decades-long debate over the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project is over and Denver Water is moving forward by decree of a federal court.

And as early as April of this year, construction will begin. “[Denver Water] has everything they need,” Cousin says.

“There’s nothing, absolutely nothing that can actually stop them.”

Cousin bought his home on the north shore of Gross Reservoir in 2018, and shortly afterward he became involved with The Environmental Group (TEG)—an action group that’s been fighting the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project since its inception. On its webpage, savebouldercounty.org, the group calls the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project “the most environmentally damaging construction project in the history of Boulder County.” It argues it will leach toxic chemicals and heavy metals into the waterways, that construction traffic will make the local roads hectic and far more dangerous, and that recreation opportunities at the reservoir will be plunged underwater.

At the same time, Denver Water, the utility behind the expansion project, argues that this project is essential to providing water for its 1.5 million Front Range customers. Without this project, Denver’s water supply is vulnerable, it claims.

Todd Hartman, a spokesman for Denver Water, explains that’s because Denver Water’s system is deeply imbalanced: 90 percent of its storage is on the south side of the city, with only 10 percent on the north side. This project will increase Gross Reservoir’s storage capacity by 72,000 acre-feet, making it the second largest in Denver Water’s system.

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Denver Water says that’s roughly enough water for 288,000 residential households. An additional 5,000 acre-feet of water will also be stored as an “environmental pool” to support environmental needs.

The Denver Water Board of Commissioners approved a $531 million construction contract for the project.

“By expanding Gross, more water can be stored on the north side, better ensuring a safe, reliable water supply in the event of drought and catastrophic wildfire,” Hartman says, “both of which have threatened Denver Water’s ability to deliver water to its customers in the past.”

That’s why Denver Water has pushed the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project so tenaciously since it started the permitting process in 2003. The project’s Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Plan got approval from the Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2011.

Then in 2016, the Department of Public Health and Environment approved the 401 State Water Quality Permit for the project, and in 2017 the Army Corp of Engineers issued Denver Water a 404 Permit and Record of Decision. The last five state governors have supported this project, as well as environmental groups, business interests, and water users on both sides of the Continental Divide, according to Denver Water’s website.

The utility says it collaborated with Boulder County staff, elected officials, and locals to address public concerns about construction disturbances and environmental hazards. Over 19 years of negotiation, that collaboration resulted in a proposed settlement between Denver Water and Boulder County that includes nearly $13 million for mitigation and 70 acres of open space transferred to Boulder County.

That $13 million breaks down like this: $5 million is to be administered by Boulder County to address residents’ concerns over noise, light, and dust; $5.1 million will be for acquiring land for open space, conservation easements, and trail corridors; $1.25 million will be used for offsetting carbon emissions from the project; $1 million will go toward restoring South Saint Vrain Creek; $250,000 will go toward a biochar pilot to further reduce emissions; and another $250,000 will be for Boulder County to pay for more rangers, communication staff, signage, and shuttles to address recreational closures during construction.

“Denver Water and Boulder County worked together this fall to develop this mitigation package,” Hartman says. “Both parties agreed on the final number as important to address potential impacts of the project and provide on-the-ground benefits to Boulder County residents.”

From the perspective of Boulder County commissioner Marta Loachamin, though, agreeing to Denver Water’s settlement wasn’t so harmonious. In fact, she says, the county ended up between “a rock and a hard place,” without much of a choice.

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“The county wanted more from a settlement 1041, as stated by Cousin and Loachamin. Howev- wouldn’t throw that at Denver Water.” statement,” Loachamin says. “None of [the comer, neither they nor Boulder County’s lawyers foreStill, even if it wasn’t the reason the hydromissioners] are satisfied. None of us were in agreesaw what would come next. Frustrated by Boulder electric component was built, Cousin agrees that ment with the moving forward of this project.”

County’s process, Denver Water circumvented the the Reservoir’s expansion has nothing to do with However, she says, Denver Water was moving county’s authority entirely and took the issue to a electrical output. forward, whether Boulder County agreed to it or federal court, asserting FERC’s preeminence. “[The hydroelectric component] is not not.

“Unfortunately, it became clear that Boulder contributing now to the electric grid in any way, For years leading up to this, Seth Cousin and County had no intention of issuing a 1041 perit won’t afterwards, and it’s not the reason why other Gross Reservoir residents, along with TEG mit to Denver Water in time to comply with the Denver Water is increasing the height of the and some of the Boulder county commissioners, construction deadlines in FERC’s order,” Hartman dam,” Cousin says. “The hydroelectric plant was thought they had an ace up their sleeve: the 1041 says. “So Denver Water had to file suit to assert the basically the golden ticket, which Denver Water Land Use Permit. This permitting process allows primacy of FERC’s order over the project.” knew they had.” local governments to regulate a variety of develHe explains that because Gross Dam and ResAnd it worked. In November, the federal court opment activities with guidance from the state. ervoir occupy Denver Water and National Forest sided with Denver Water, at which point Boulder Cousin says he and other locals were under the System lands reserved for hydropower production, County was given a choice: accept the settlement impression this could be used to stop Denver Water Denver Water had a hydropower license from as is, or don’t—the expansion project would move from breaking ground on the project. the Federal Power Commission (later replaced by forward either way.

DENVER WATER “From the get-go we knew that Boulder County accepted the settlement.

[1041] was the thing that the county had “Is it a good deal? It’s the expansion to do to fight this. And the reason we of a dam and a reservoir that we could thought that is the county has continnot stop,” Loachamin says. “So it’s a good ued to tell that to the constituents—to deal given the options of deal making— us,” Cousin says. “We were told and we which was to get zero or get something believed that the 1041 was where we were to mitigate.” going to fight this.”

“I don’t think you’ll find anyone who Marta Loachamin says she was under was happy with that settlement,” Cousin a similar belief. says, adding, “though Denver Water must “A lot of us, myself included . . . [were] be very happy with it.” of the understanding, and I was hearing it For its part, Denver Water certainly from residents as well, that the 1041 was sounds happy. the solution to stop this project,” LoaHartman says they “look forward to chamin says. “And that was inaccurate.” beginning work on expanding Gross as Boulder County requested a 1041 soon as possible to ensure a safe, treated permit application from Denver Water drinking water supply for the health and and the utility obliged, submitting one safety of a quarter of the state’s population.” in September of 2020. Boulder County Whether Boulder County or its A DIGITAL MOCK countered with numerous queries, going back and FERC). That license gives them federal residents are on board with that doesn’t UP shows what forth with Denver Water for nine months, signifiauthority to proceed with the expanmatter any more.

Gross Dam will look cantly slowing the project down. Then in June of sion project, regardless of Boulder “Unfortunately, [this is] what litigation like with construction ends up being: Somebody who’s being 2021, Boulder County’s land use director informed County’s 1041 process, because it will complete, after it’s Denver Water that they’d failed to provide suffiexpand Gross Reservoir’s hydroelectric strong armed,” Loachamin says. “We were been raised 131 feet. cient information to county agencies; the applicacomponent. in a really poor spot to try and negotiate tion would have to be resubmitted.

Hartman says the expansion will something, based on a federal ruling versus “For nearly a year, Denver Water attempted to result in an additional 4.5 megawatt us as a local government entity.” work through the 1041 process to obtain Boulder hours (mWh) of energy produced by Come April, Denver Water will be County’s approval by responding to Boulder Coun- that hydroelectric component annually, which is a breaking ground. Hartman says they anticipate ty’s questions, proposing solutions to the County’s drop in the bucket considering the average U.S. res- completion sometime in 2027, and then the resconcerns, and identifying appropriate mitigation for idential utility customer uses 10.75 mWh annually, ervoir’s extra 77,000 acre feet of storage will begin local concerns,” Hartman says. according to the U.S. Energy Information Adto fill up. Whether Cousin and his neighbors up at In a statement about Boulder County’s 1041 ministration. That fact has raised questions among Gross Reservoir stick around to see that day or not process, Denver Water wrote, “Delays resulting Boulder’s county commissioners about the validity remains to be seen. from Boulder County’s refusal to timely process the of expanding that hydroelectric component.

“I’ve heard from a few neighbors already. Some 1041 application add substantial costs and cause “I believe that the hydroelectric component neighbors say they’re staying, and then others say permitting, procurement and logistical issues that at the Gross Reservoir Dam was a way to ensure they’ve put the house on the market already,” Cousseriously disrupt Denver Water’s ability to execute that the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency—the in says, adding that since he only bought his home the project.”

FERC—would come into play,” Loachamin says, on the north shore in 2018, he’s still locked into a It also put the construction and engineering suggesting that the hydroelectric component of relatively recent mortgage. deadlines at risk, and importantly, it threatened the Gross Reservoir was constructed (in the 1950s) “My wife and I are kind of forced to be here,” project’s Federal Environmental Regulatory Comspecifically for Denver Water to override Boulder’s he says. “But saying that, if in two years time we mission (FERC)-ordered timelines. municipal authority. can’t go outside because there’s noise and dust 24/7, That was the goal of using Boulder County’s “That’s an angry accusation,” Cousin says. “I I mean, who wants to live like that?”

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Mountaineering mathematics Think mountaineering is all rock, ice, and adventure? Maybe, but pack your calculator too

by Doug Emory

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will wager Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t a climber, but mountaineers do share bonds with the great mathematician and physicist.

For instance, he discovered gravity, a topic of extreme interest to those of us hoping to avoid its effects.

We also share a wider focus on life’s quantitative side.

Mountaineering’s status as a STEM activity is underappreciated, but consider this: We have seven summits and fourteen 8,000-meter peaks. Colorado has 53 14ers. Every state with 100 mountains has a Top 100 Mountains list. We quantify crux moves, follow numerical grade and class systems, and use measures such as topographical prominence to determine if a mountain even is a mountain. We develop equations simple as calculating elevation gain per hour or complex as Colorado author and climber Gerry Roach‘s R Point “efferculty” system. Wrap your head around that and you’ll be capable of levitating yourself through sheer mental power, thus saving wear and tear on your boots.

An additional factor in our misunderstanding how central math is to mountaineering is our difficulty grasping what math is. As Dr. William Bricken notes in his Iconic Math, it isn’t pages of long division worksheets—it’s actually a “visual and experiential” activity. That is exactly how mountaineers apply it in the hills: How many feet higher is the summit? How long before that storm blasts us with lightning?

What bearing gets us out of this freaking whiteout?

Employing that broadened definition, we peak-baggers should give ourselves a hand. We’re honorary applied mathematicians.

For help in analyzing this quantitative data with which we wrestle, I bought my mountaineering friends a round and asked this question: “Of all the calculations you use in mountaineering, which do

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you find most important?”

The clear winner was “the crux,” since that rating determines whether a team even possesses the skills needed to reach the top. But the question struck a chord, extending over several evenings, forcing me to buy so many rounds, my son’s meager inheritance was at risk.

A UNICORN MAY HAVE GAMBOLED past, ridden by Bigfoot and followed by yetis tossing lupines, all while I marched grimly on, staring down at my boots.

During these weighty deliberations, we classified quantitative considerations into three rough categories: 1. Planning numbers: Basic figures, often developed while poring over maps and guidebooks.

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daylight. You also need to consider the human element—how big a team (like an ideal of three/ four when crossing a crevasse field) and how fit must participants be? A critical element in team formation is the “Knucklehead Ratio”—the ratio of questionable personalities to solid mountaineering citizens. If this figure rises above 1:2, you risk team disintegration before reaching the trailhead.

2. Climb day numbers: The point at which planning theory meets and is pulverized by practice. Are you climbing fast enough to get up and down before your significant other phones mountain rescue? How long can your heart pound at an accelerated rate before it pops through your chest? How many mosquitoes can coexist in one cubic inch of air? An especially granular example is my patented process of step counting to measure elevation gain—on steep slopes, 150 steps = 100 feet.

I have counted steps into the millions, since performing this mental trick distracts me from the quantity of pain afflicting me.

3. Pointless glory numbers: Vital numbers by which we build our self-concept as mountaineers, brag with peers, and reduce non-climbers to stupefaction. What’s the largest number of feet you’ve climbed in a day? What, by rating, is the most difficult peak you’ve summited? These are numbers that allow us to track our growth as climbers and demonstrate the often-surprising feats BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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of which we’re capable. They allow us entrée into the “Hey, I’m a mountaineer” club. However, never forget the “pointless” in “pointless glory.” Normal people neither understand nor give a darn about these numbers. Cite them too often in mixed company and you’ll stop getting invitations to parties.

I’ll admit, recognizing how math permeates mountaineering initially took me aback. As most of us do, I entered the wilderness chasing beauty and that overwhelming awe raw nature inspires. To quote Emerson, “Have mountains . . . no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?” Mountaineering incorporates lots of math, but at its best it should lead beyond rote calculation to the ineffable, to a sensation outside of words and figures. Undeniably, mountaineers overly focused on goal attainment end by confronting this equation: Obsessive focus on Peak X = [aesthetic appreciation] + - [spiritual transcendence].

And the characteristics of a community insistent on calculating its accomplishments aren’t all pretty. Mountaineers have been known to be competitive, neglectful of relationships, and reckless when pursuing targets. Chasing lists can turn sublime experiences into a job. Two summits short of completing the prestigious Bulger List, my friend Jon Karpoff at times sighs in relief, imagining the day he will be “freed from the tyranny of the Bulgers.” He’s looking forward to a big bash once those last two peaks complete his accomplishment, but the peaks themselves? Maybe not so much . . .

My personal concerns are much more prosaic. I wonder how many miles I’ve traveled, counting my steps, monitoring breaths, and bypassing wonders. A unicorn may have gamboled past, ridden by Bigfoot and followed by yetis tossing lupines, all while I marched grimly on, staring down at my boots.

So I weighed the scales a bit before finally giving in and appreciating the prevalence of mathematics in mountaineering. Emerson might disapprove, but we could do worse than chasing milestones across the world’s grand mountain ranges. As Robert Browning says, “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?”

Climber and psychologist Malcolm Bass notes that mountaineering engages our major psychological systems, building attachments within teams, leveling our emotions, and providing “a sense of direction, purpose, and growth.” My log of peaks provides me more than fond memories—it tells me what I’m ready to tackle next. All those numbers help us set challenging but achievable goals and serve as tangible manifestations of the drives that make mountaineering so addictive.

As with all scientifically grounded research, I hope this article provides the foundation for further exploration. For example, how does navigational technology alter our ability to problem-solve? Kids, there was an unimaginable time when people navigated from compasses and lines on a paper map. Using those abstractions, they created mental models of terrain often at odds with what their senses told them. What is lost when a GPS eliminates that tension between our rational and experiential selves?

Exploration of that topic requires deeper thought than you’ll ever get from me, so here are two additional areas of practical import: First, since my main contribution to mountaineering is an ability to endure pointless suffering, I’d appreciate development of “The Suffering Index” so I can foresee what subhuman state I’ll be driving home in.

In tandem, the mountaineering community demands creation of “The Satisfaction Index,” an algorithm incorporating such elements as weather, views, the Knucklehead Ratio, bugs per inch of exposed skin, condition of rock or snow, amount of terror, and number of beers on ice in the car.

I leave it to my mathematically minded colleagues to advance this critical research.

• Although I take full responsibility for the quality of jokes above, I want to recognize my friends Dave Cunningham, Jon Karpoff, and Joe Duggan for helping deepen the content of this article.

• Malcolm Bass’ comments on the psychology of mountaineers have been immensely helpful in developing my understanding of why climbers climb. Unfortunately, Mr. Bass suffered a serious stroke last spring. His family and friends have launched the Move Mountains for Malcolm GoFundMe campaign to support his rehabilitation.

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History belongs to everyone ‘Walk With Me’ brings Ernest Withers’ photography to The Dairy for Black History Month

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Walk With Me events are free and open In this moment, Lauterbach is ensconced in a photographic to the public. More information: history of America’s Civil Rights Movement, flanked by prints of hnaacpbouldercounty.org/walk-with-me Moses Wright pointing his finger at the white man who killed his great-nephew, Emmett Till; of Martin Luther King, Jr. being stopped by police at Medgar Evers’ funeral; of Black sanitation workers during a solidarity march in Memphis, Tennessee.

Suddenly, the door to the studio flies open.

“And [Withers] yells, ‘I told you not to touch anything!” Lauterbach remembers with a laugh. “And I didn’t know at the time he was a man with secrets.”

After Withers died in 2007, it was revealed he’d been an FBI informant for nearly two decades, reporting on the same activists he photographed and befriended. The revelation threw Withers’ historic photography into a new light for many people who suddenly saw him as a traitor.

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Briscoe, 16 years old, joined the picket lines along Main Street Memphis in 1960.

LEFT: Withers’ photograph of Ike and Tina Turner at Club Paradise in the mid-1960s

uses primary and secondary research, including interviews with Withers’ daughter, Rosalind, to paint a picture of a brave, motivated, clever man who made decisions based on the context of the systemically racist world in which he lived.

“You can see the photography, you can see the talent, you can see the greatness, you can see [he bore] witness to important historical events,” Lauterbach says. “You can understand the risks that he took, and by the way, for practically no money.

He covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott for like $29. He covered the Emmett Till trial for like $50: No healthcare, no benefits, nothing. It was very much a passion for him, something he valued and cared about. This is not a world of his making; if you take systematic racism out of the picture, he doesn’t make those decisions, that world doesn’t exist. And so to put all that weight on him, to blame him for [being an informant] is blatantly unfair when you can see what he really was about. We’ve all made compromised decisions.”

When a collection of more than 100 of Withers’ photographs comes to the Dairy Arts Center, viewers will have the chance to hear his daughter, Rosalind, speak about her father’s life at the opening reception on January 16.

“I think that we all have to understand the entirety of this history,” says Annett James, president of Boulder County’s NAACP, which is bringing the Withers’ exhibition to the Dairy. “We don’t know if he was compromised or not, and we asked [Rosalind] to address [his years as an informant for the FBI].

But we feel like his pictures tell the story.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr., writer James Meredith, the Little Rock Nine, the Memphis 13, and “Tent City,” but also photos of the R&B music scene on Beale Street, including B.B. King, Bobby Bland, and Elvis Presley. “[Withers] would see Elvis in all of these unscripted, voluntary sort of situations,” at Black blues clubs around Memphis, Lauterbach says. “He really appreciated Elvis, his genuine love of Black music and culture . . . Elvis was controversial for his embrace of Black culture, so even though we look at him now as having appropriated Black music and Black fashion, at the time, that was very risky for Elvis to engage in in the white mainstream culture of America. [Withers] took photographs of Elvis with B.B. King that were republished throughout the Black press, publications like the very high-profile Chicago Defender, the largest circulating Black daily newspaper of the time. Photographing Elvis with B.B. King, that really, I think, shaped perceptions about Elvis in a positive way. Just the fact that he was willing to be seen with a Black person in a harshly segregated time said a lot about Elvis’ character, and Withers, having seen Elvis in person as a real guy, and not just as a photo opportunity, I think he understood that and was able to communicate that to a broad audience with his work.”

Outside of his photography, Withers was a member of the NAACP, a World War II veteran, and a former Memphis police officer.

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a particular strategy in mind with regard to how the Civil Rights Movement should be pursued. He was not about violence, he was not about militant reactions on behalf of African American people. He and other NAACP types from the late ’50s and early ’60s leaned into America living up to the Constitution. You see that in the legal strategy that the NAACP pursued during that time period, and that’s what Withers was involved with initially. Now, things changed over time, and as the movement became a little bit more chaotic and a little bit more violent, he got thrust into the heart of the drama of the Civil Rights Movement.”

Fast-forward 60 years and America has been reminded that the fight for civil rights in this country is not over. As the world entered lockdown in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, protests broke out in America in response to the murder of Black citizens like Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

“George Floyd’s murder was so visible, everyone had a front row seat to that,” says James of Boulder County NAACP. “The NAACP saw an influx of people interested in learning more and becoming members of the branch, so our branch really did grow substantially in membership. But our goal in Boulder, based on its demographics, has not been to do celebrations around Black History Month. Our goal has always been educational. . . . I feel like an exhibit like this offers an opportunity for conversation and dialogue and discourse. History belongs to everyone, you know, it’s not a Black or white thing.

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n the summer of 1943, Colorado’s famed light infantry, 10th Mountain Division, helmed by Brigadier General Lloyd E. Jones, made Camp Hale home. It was there, tucked neatly between Minturn and Leadville, that 15,000 young faces donned white camouflage, a pair of skis, and a military-issue rifle. Eighteen months later, those same men—strangers turned brothers—were traversing Mount Belvedere and other peaks on the Italian mountain range against German forces. Trust, brotherhood, collaboration—the U.S. Army’s weirdest subdivision became a well-oiled machine under such principles. But by the late 1960s, a once-alive Camp Hale was a ghost-town.

While it’s true that the division still operates in Fort Drum, New York, the infamous Rocky Mountain unit has been defunct for close to a half-century. That is, except for one squadron toting string instruments and drum sticks instead of M1 Garands. Sometime in the early 2010s, frontman Andrew Cooney migrated from Chicago, sporting a deep knowledge of all things musical. He met Colorado natives Campbell Thomas, Tyler Gwynn, MJ Ouimette and Winston Heuga at the now-relocated Lazy Dog in Boulder. They made Boulder their homebase, establishing Tenth Mountain Division in the process. As Cooney sits in Rosetta Hall near Pearl Street, sporting a deep red beanie and lumberjack beard, he says that the aforementioned words—trust, brotherhood and collaboration—are the foundation for TMD’s musical freedom.

“There’s no rules, period,” he says. “The approach we have is built on creative trust. I’ll come in with certain chord progressions in mind. Another member will have ideas for lyrics. Someone will have a couple different riffs and parts throughout. We bring it all together and say, ‘Let’s fuck around with it.’ Four of the five members are songwriters, so the possible permutations become endless.”

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difficult to classify TMD under a singular genre. The band’s website cites “classic southern rock” and “progressive bluegrass,” but that’s hardly a bookend. TMD’s 2021 project, Butte La Rose, plays like a Jack Kerouac novel—a true American road trip. TMD is sprinting the streets of French Quarter New Orleans on one song, then the next, the members are laying on their backs under a coral-blue Wyoming sky. If Butte La Rose was TMD’s sonic way of going nationwide, it’s worth wondering where they travel to next.

“With [Butte La Rose], we went into that recording process with a completely different album in mind,” Cooney explains. “Then COVID hit, which made us reflect on old songs and bring new stuff into those records.

That reflection period gave us the chance to realize that, ‘Oh my god, we have all this other stuff.’ We went in all directions. But once we all actually get back into a recording space together, where we can share what we’ve been feeling, been writing, playing and listening to, it’s almost impossible to say.”

Cooney says he’s been feeling pure country—the old, twangy Dwight-Yoakum-style of Western. He goes into his deep love for soul and Motown, and talks about a couple songs that he started writing nearly a decade ago, set down, and picked back up this year. Heading into recording, knowing that the other four guys are coming with their own individual preferences—this creates a chaotic, beautiful melting pot of sound and style when it’s time to lay down tracks. Much of that same energy is directly channeled into TMD’s live performances, the l

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next of which is at the Fox Theatre on January 22.

“It’s a nugget in our scene,” Cooney says of the Fox. “Playing it for the first time felt like a milestone. I think this’ll be our fifth or sixth time performing there. It’s the creme-de-la-cream of TMD, and was so important for us in our formative years. The green room, being able to walk around before and after the show talking to people—everything about it.”

The opener for TMD’s January 22 show at the Fox, Flash Mountain Flood, shares a similar musical vision.

It’s a group of guys TMD has known for a while— like-minded philosophy on creative freedom makes for a full show, start to finish, that’s difficult to predict in the slightest.

“We just complement each other, period,” Cooney says. “It’s like this giant Venn diagram where everyone overlaps a little bit here and a little bit there. We listen to the same people and love the same music. For the most part, however, we stay on the outside of where our similarities lie. So the end result is different. The crossover becomes this perfect compliment to one another.”

There’s unnerving beauty in the great unknown.

Imagine a group of soldiers trudging the rim of a mountain in Northern Italy. They don’t know how or when “the thing” will happen, but as soon as it does, countless hours of training and an understanding for the guy to their left and right almost certainly assures a victorious outcome. The magic of unwavering confidence can also be said for a band whose mantra is built on the shoulders of scriptless exploration— both in the recording studio and on the stage in front of a packed house. Tenth Mountain Division doesn’t know how it’ll go down upon their return to the Fox, but Cooney promises that the outcome will be a fullfledged “rock and roll party.” l

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Author Salon with Todd Mitchell

7 p.m. Thursday, January 13, The Wandering Jellyfish, 198 Second Avenue, Suite 1A, Niwot. Tickets: $19 (includes one copy of Mitchell’s writing craft book) Join award-winning author and creative writing professor Todd Mitchell as he shares radical, perspective-shifting solutions for how to enhance creativity, deal with doubt, procrastination, and criticism, and make creative endeavors more enjoyable. An interactive and generative writing workshop with the author of Breakthrough: How to Overcome Doubt, Fear, and Resistance to Be Your Ultimate Creative Self. This not-to-be-missed evening is geared toward writers of all genres.

east window SOUTH presents: ‘AFRICAN-AMERICA: Contempt of Greasy Pigs’ Photography and Collage by André Ramos-Woodard

6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 13, east window SOUTH, 4949 Broadway, Suite 102B, Boulder. Free Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre Ramos-Woodard is a non-binary Black artist whose works evoke feelings of dreams and surrealistic narrative. Primarily working with photography and collage, Ramos-Woodard conveys ideas of communal and personal identity through internal conflicts. They use their art to accent the ideas of separation between them and the viewer. Ramos-Woodard received their BFA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and has recently completed an MFA at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Firehouse Art Center presents ‘Long Range’ featuring Jon Fukuda, Katherin Gibbons, Veronica Love and Graham Stewart

January 14-March 6, Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Avenue, Longmont The Firehouse Art Center is committed to sharing thought provoking contemporary art with Boulder County, and is proud to celebrate four artists exploring media and meaning in our own backyard. The Firehouse is honored to have Jane Burke as our juror for this show. The exhibit’s title “Long Range” is Burke’s nod to Longmont and the Front Range, but also a comment on the ongoing commitment of these artists and the long-range goals of their practice. In the South Gallery of Firehouse, see Stripping The System: The True Cost of Fashion Fashion.

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Author Talk: Keith Villa—‘Brewing with Cannabis’

6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 13, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder.

Tickets: $5 Brewing with Cannabis introduces the convergence of marijuana and brewing in the modern craft beer movement. Delve into how and why the plant produces compounds such as cannabinoids and terpenes, how they function, and how to incorporate them into beer recipes.

Examine the active components of cannabis and the chemistry of how they interact with beer. Both homebrewers and professional brewers will be inspired by a wide-range of extract-based and all-grain recipes they can adopt or use as guidance when creating non-alcoholic beer or homebrew. Designed as a practical guide to use in brewing, the final chapter will inspire readers on how the discovery of new cannabinoids and terpenes may be used in the future.

The Second City: The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life

8 p.m. January 17, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, Boulder. Tickets: $25-$30 The Second City opened its doors on a snowy Chicago night in December of 1959, and a comedy revolution began. The small cabaret theater has grown to become the most influential and prolific comedy empire in the world.

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BDT Stage presents ‘My Way: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra’

January 14-February 19. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder. Tickets: $65-$70 My Way captures the wit and charm of Ol’ Blue Eyes. It’s a breath of fresh air, a romantic enticement, and a blast from the past. Audiences and critics alike have hailed its powerful music, superb arrangements, classy style, and easy-going comedy. Containing 55 incredible songs from the Great American Songbook, My Way celebrates the mystique of Frank Sinatra and the unforgettable music that made him famous.

Author Talk: David Chernikoff—‘Life, Part Two’

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 19, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder.

Tickets: $5 Author David Chernikoff has spent decades pursuing spiritual study and practice with remarkable teachers, including Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Father Thomas Keating, and Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. In Life, Part Two, he distills lessons from across contemplative traditions to invite readers to embrace seven essential elements of conscious living. These elements culminate in wise elderhood—a state celebrated by indigenous cultures around the world, yet largely unacknowledged in contemporary Western society.

Dairy Comedy in the Boe

8 p.m. Saturday, January 15, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. Tickets: $15 The guy who started Dairy Comedy, Arlis Gold, is back as guest host to get the year started off right. Joining him will be some of the funniest folks we know, including Cody Ullrich, Stephanie McHugh, Olivia Schyling and Steve Vanderploeg. Please note, Dairy Comedy is now vaxxed-only, so please bring your proof of covid vaccination to get in.

Jesters Dinner Theatre presents ‘The Addams Family’ (student production)

January 16-February 27, Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main Street, Longmont. Tickets: $15 for show, $35 for dinner and show The Addams Family, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story that is every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met.

Documentary Screening: ‘Undoing the Noble Crusade’—MLK and His Connection to Indigenous People

Sunday, January 16, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. Free.

Undoing the Noble Crusade is based on a passage from Why We Can’t Wait, a book by Martin Luther King, Jr. He wrote in 1963, “We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade.”

The short film by Alan O’Hashi also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Native American Rights Fund that was established in the spirit of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The second documentary to screen is Beyond Sand Creek about the efforts of the Arapaho tribe to undo stereotypes, renew their language and culture and tie those to their traditional homeland in Boulder.

Motus Theater presents ACLU Colorado Leaders Reading JustUs Monologs in Honor of Dr. MLK Jr. Day (virtual and in-person)

3 p.m. Monday, January 17, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. Tickets: $0-$50 In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Motus Theater and Colorado ACLU present a special performance in which Deborah Richardson, executive director of Colorado ACLU, and Velveta Golightly-Howell, member of the ACLU Colorado board of directors, will stand with two community leaders who were formerly incarcerated, from Motus Theater’s JustUs project, and read aloud their stories. Musical response from acclaimed singer/songwriter Carlos Heredia. The reading will be followed by a discussion on the racism and violence within the criminal legal system in light of Dr. King Jr.’s civil rights legacy. Free, family-friendly event (middle school age and up). see EVENTS Page 18

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January 14

The Johnny O Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt Street, Longmont. Free.

Unfearing with A Human Named David. 6 p.m. Abbott and Wallace Distilling, 350 Terry Street, Suite 120, Longmont Dave Tamkin and CO. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder.

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Vocal Freedom Singer-Songwriter Showcase hosted by Rebecca Folsom. 6:30 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl Street, Boulder. Tickets: $12.

Funk Knuf. 7 p.m. The Louisville Underground, 640 Main Street, Louisville. Tickets: $15- $80.

Many Colors & Mama Roux Trio. 7:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder.

Tickets: $15.

Tchami x AC Slater. 8 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop Street, Denver. Tickets: $40-$75.

Hot Water Music. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. Tickets: $33.

Mersiv. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax, Denver. TIckets: $25-75.

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January 15

Carlos Vives. 7 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th Street, Denver. Tickets: Starting from $59.

The Jerry Dance Party featuring DJ Jerrbrother. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street, Boulder. Tickets: $15-20.

Son of Genesis. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont. Tickets: $12.

Lucero Block Party West. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax, Denver. TIckets: $37.50-$125.

Lee Brice with Cory Morrow. 8 p.m. Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop Street, Denver. Tickets: $45-$75.

The Petty Nicks Experience with Mountain Rose. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th Street, Boulder. Tickets: $20-$25.

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Lawrence with Swatkins. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th Street, Boulder. Tickets: $18-$20.

January 17

Summer Salt. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th Street, Boulder. Tickets: $20-$25.

January 18

Circa Survive. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 East Colfax, Denver. TIckets: $25-$30.

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All forms will have an end

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991 homes were burned into oblivion On Thursday, December 30th, 2021.

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The fire did not discriminate.

If the houses were beautifully kept Or cluttered and in need of cleaning, If the people inside were satisfied or sad, Aching or afraid, If the objects inside were artistic and treasured Or used in a perfunctory way, The fire simply destroyed them all.

The wind was relentless, gusting up to 115 mph.

That morning, I saw my neighbor’s Garbage disappear in an instant Into the sky.

It’s unsettling, even inside, to hear the wind In such a restless, violent state.

We are powerless against such forces.

We know all forms will have an end.

But how can the disappearance Be so quick and thorough?

When my mom died, It seemed so heartless that her things Outlasted her.

She gathered and cared for Beautiful things Like her mother before her.

I don’t think she knew, I don’t think I knew, That, at the end, She was all I wanted.

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Something to see; something to read

‘Belle’ and ‘What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?’ ring in 2022

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by Michael J. Casey

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ell, that didn’t take very long, did it? It’s only the second week of 2022, and we already have the first great movie and the first great film history book of the new year.

Things are looking up.

Let’s start on the screen with Belle, the latest from anime writer/director Mamoru Hosoda.

Set in modern-day Japan, Belle follows Suzu, a 17-year-old wanna-be singer suffering from a crippling shyness stemming from a childhood tragedy. For this reason, Suzu can’t connect with the other students and can’t tell her oldest friend, Shinobu, how she really feels about him—even though he probably feels the same about her. So Suzu’s friend convinces her to join the “U,” a massive virtual reality populated by five billion avatars. “You can’t start over in reality, but you can start over in U.” Suzu chooses the name Belle, takes the image of a freckle-faced pop princess outfitted in a flowing pink dress, and becomes the girl everyone in U talks about. That’s when the Beast shows up—a large, horned dragon covered in bruises—and catches Belle’s empathetic eyes. Sound familiar?

Though Hosoda effortlessly evokes elements of the 18th-century French fairy tale and subsequent cinematic adaptations—even cribbing some of the imagery from the 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast—Belle quickly leaves the Disney version behind to blaze its own trail. It’s a sweet story with plenty of heart, but it’s in the visual depiction of U’s virtual world where Belle really sings. Hosoda layers a cacophony of textures: image, sound, and on-screen text, to depict a space where emotions change fast, allegiances change faster, and corporate sponsorship is as fleeting as it is validating.

It’s a knockout, and distributor GKIDS releases Belle in theaters this weekend in both dubbed and subtitled versions.

Now let’s head to the bookshelf for the new paperback printing of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?, film historian Joseph McBride’s portrait of the infamous filmmaker’s turbulent career.

What Ever Happened grew out of McBride’s frustration with the public perception of Welles. Almost everyone knew of and had seen Citizen Kane, the writer/director/actor’s stunning debut, but far less knew of his subsequent movies—a few of which might even be superior to Kane.

McBride knows his Welles: he’s been writing about him since 1970. He watched Kane 60 times before approaching Welles for an interview. Not long after he did, Welles cast McBride in The Other Side of the Wind—Welles’ legendarily unfinished final film.

When the hardback of What Ever Happened was published in 2006, Other Side of the Wind remained unfinished, Too Much Johnson (a pre-Kane short Welles made for a stage show) was missing, and The Hearts of Age (another pre-Kane short) was practically unknown. It isn’t too much of a stretch to suggest that McBride’s book had a hand in keeping these projects in the minds of cineastes, and now all three have been discovered, finished, restored, and made available for home viewing.

McBride updates What Ever Happened where appropriate but retains the original text to preserve how the world came to overlook Welles and how contemporary scholarship is correcting that omission. Welles’ approach to entertainment and politics probably tracks better with today’s crowd than they ever did in his lifetime, and McBride does right by documenting it all with first-hand knowledge, exhaustive research, and energetic prose.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? is one of the best books you’ll find on a filmmaker’s career, not to mention understanding 20th century Hollywood from 35,000 feet. And at a manageable 330 pages, you could knock it out in four or five sittings. But with a story this good, you’ll want to savor every page. Now available in paperback from University Press of Kentucky.

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Dear Dan: I’m a gay man in his 40s.

I very much love my husband but two years ago we acknowledged that our desire for each other sexually just wasn’t there anymore. Thanks in part to reading your column for many years, we were able to have a calm conversation about whether we wanted to remain together in a companionate marriage or split up. We decided to stay together and I’m glad we did. Sex was the thing we fought about most, and our relationship improved when we took that conflict off the table.

My husband has a couple of fuckbuddies that he sees while I do most of my playing online. (We had this conversation at the start of the pandemic and playing online feels safer.) One of things I’ve been able to explore in the last year is FinDom. I really get off on sending money that we can spare to younger, hotter guys and being degraded for my pains. Thing is, almost all the guys doing FinDom are straight. It’s often a part of their persona they play up: they’re hot straight guys demanding cash tributes from “pathetic fags” that they would never touch in real life. As much as I like having my wallet drained by a hot young straight guy calling me a fag, I would so much rather give my money to a hot and dominant young gay man. Why do so few gay young men get into this? Do young gay men realize how much money they’re leaving on the table? Could you please tell them?

—Chances Are Some Hot FinDoms Are Gay Dear CASHFAG: “I don’t know why there aren’t more gay FinDoms out there,” said Master AJ, “but I’m certainly not the only one.”

AJ is 23-year-old sexually dominant gay man who lives, works, and drains gay subs all over the world from his home base in the Pacific Northwest.

He first stumbled over the the FinDom scene on Twitter when he was a kinky gay college student struggling to pay his rent. “I was working two jobs, and while I wasn’t desperate, I thinking about money a lot,” said AJ. “So, the idea of being in control, which I was already really into, and dominating someone by demanding cash from him that he’d earned? It was a huge rush.”

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are no male Doms I’ve seen draining cisgender women,” said Master AJ. “So, if these guys really are straight, they would have to stumble on the gay FinDom scene or have the idea to start targeting a community they weren’t a part of in order to establish themselves.”

And having seen how much pleasure so many straight-identified male FinDoms get out of dominating gay men, “it seems possible that at least some of these guys aren’t being completely truthful about their sexualities.”

Why would a gay or bi male FinDom claim to be straight? Because, as AJ points out, it’s going to make him more appealing to a significant segment of the gay finsub community. “There are a lot of gay men who fetishize being bullied by straight men,” said AJ. “And a lot of gay subs enjoy the idea that they are tributing to someone who will never be attracted to them. Which I find kind of laughable because being gay doesn’t necessarily mean a guy has a chance with me.”

There’s also the issue of anti-gay slurs in FinDom play and how those slurs land.

“Slurs get used a lot in the FinDom/ kink scenes,” said AJ, “and they really can sound and feel different depending on the sexuality of the speaker.” Meaning, for some gay men being called a fag by a straight guy in a safe, controlled, and consensual way—like during a cash draining session—feels more degrading (in a sexy way) than being called a fag by another fag ever could. “But other gay men prefer gay FinDoms because they don’t like hearing slurs from straight men,” said AJ. And if you really want to attract other gay men to the FinDom scene, CASHFAG, AJ suggests making an effort to find out gay FinDoms who are already online, diligently promote their content with likes and retweets, and—of course—sending your favorite FinDom(s) all the money you can reasonably spare.

“Because when you think about it,” said AJ, “tributing to a gay FinDom is like supporting a small queer business, and that’s something we should all be doing.”

Follow MasterAJ on Twitter @CashMasterAJ1.

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: The coming months will be an excellent

time for you to explore the art of Soulful Bragging. Do you deserve any of the titles below? If so, feel free to use them liberally throughout 2022. 1. Practical Idealist with Flexible Strategies. 2. Genius of Interesting Intimacy. 3.

Jaunty Healer with Boisterous Knowledge of the Soul’s Ways. 4. Free-Wheeling Joker Who Makes People Laugh for Righteous and Healing Reasons. 5. Skillful Struggler. 6.

Empathy Master with a Specialty in Creative Compassion.

7. Playful Reservoir of Smart Eros. 8. Purveyor of Feisty Wisdom and Cute Boldness. 9. Crafty Joy-Summoner.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Most people who use tobacco products are

at risk of having shorter life spans than they might have otherwise had. Smoking is detrimental to health. Those who smoke in their twenties and thirties may cut ten years off their longevity. But here’s some good news: If you kick your tobacco habit before age 40, you will regain most of those ten years. I bring this to your attention because I’d like it to serve as a motivational tale for you in 2022. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will have more power than ever before to escape any harmful addictions and compulsions you have—and begin reclaiming your full vitality.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In May 1974, the Grateful Dead introduced a new wrinkle to their live musical performances. Playing at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, they amplified their music through a “Wall of Sound”: 604 speakers piled high, together channeling 26,000 watts of energy. Had any band ever treated their fans to a louder volume and crisper tones? I’d like to make this breakthrough event one of your top metaphors for 2022. According to my analysis, it will be a great year for you to boost your signal. I invite you to distribute your message with maximum confidence and clarity. Show the world who you are with all the buoyant flair you can rouse.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Philosopher Emil Cioran said he despised

wise philosophers. Why? Because they practice prudent equanimity, which he regarded as empty and sterile. In Cioran’s view, these deep thinkers avoid strong feelings so they can live in cool safety, free from life’s nerve-wracking paradoxes. I agree with him that such a state is undesirable.

However, Cioran contrasted it with the lives of the normal people he admired, who are “full of irreconcilable contradictions” and who “suffer from limitless anxiety.” My question for Cioran: Are there no other options between those two extremes? And my answer: Of course there are! And you can be proof of that in 2022, Cancerian. I expect you’ll be full of deep feelings, eager for new experiences, and infused with a lust for life—with less anxiety and fewer irreconcilable contradictions than ever before.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: In 1838, 29-year-old naturalist Charles

Darwin was early in his career. He had not developed his theory of evolution, and was not yet a superstar of science.

He began ruminating about the possibility of proposing marriage to his cousin Emma Wedgwood. If married, he wrote: “constant companion and a friend in old age; the charms of music and female chit-chat—good things for one’s health.” If not married: “no children; no one to care for one in old age; less money for books, loss of time, and a duty to work for money.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, because I suspect that in 2022, you may be tempted and inspired to deeply interweave your fate with the fates of interesting characters.

A spouse or partner or collaborator? Could be. Maybe a beloved animal or spirit guide? Have fun making your list of pros and cons!

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: What were your favorite toys when you were a child? Now would be a good time to retrieve fond memories of them, and even acquire modern versions so you can revive the joy they gave you. In my astrological analysis, you’ll be wise to invite your inner child to play a bigger

role in your life as you engage in a wide range of playtime activities. So yes, consider the possibility of buying yourself crayons, Legos, dolls and puppets, video games, squirt guns, roller skates, yo-yos, jump ropes, and board games.

And don’t neglect the pleasures of blanket forts, cardboard boxes, mud pies, and plain old sticks.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: In his novel The Story of a Marriage, Andrew Sean Greer asks, “Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?” My answer would be, “No, not always, but when it does, it’s often extra sweet and enduring.” One of my wishes and predictions for you in 2022, Libra, is that love will form around your hardened bits.

For best results, be open to the possibility that difficulty can blossom into grace. Look for opportunities that are seeded by strenuous work.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.” Author Marilynne Robinson wrote that, and I recommend her thought as one of your uplifting meditations in 2022. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming months will be a favorable time to dismantle and dissolve as many old grievances as you can. This could and should be the year you liberate yourself from psychic grunge—for the sake of your own mental, physical, and spiritual health as much as for the sake of others’.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Some critics view author Diana Wynne Jones as a genius in her chosen field: fantasy novels for children and young adults. She had a generous spirit, asserting, “I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something; it’s just a question of finding this.” If you are still unsure what your unique genius consists of, Sagittarius, I believe 2022 will show you in detailed glory.

And if you do already know, the coming months will be a time when you dramatically deepen your ability to access and express your genius.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Capricorn biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer

wrote a meditative book about moss. It was her response to questions she had been wondering about: Why has this inconspicuous plant persevered for 350 million years? While so many other species have gone extinct, why has moss had staying power through all the Earth’s climate changes and upheavals? And what lessons does its success have for us? Here are Kimmerer’s conclusions: Moss teaches us the value “of being small, of giving more than you take, of working with natural law, sticking together.” In accordance with astrological omens in 2022, Capricorn, I believe moss should be your role model. (Kimmerer’s book is Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.)

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Author Joyce Carol Oates has been very successful and has won several major awards. But she describes her job as arduous and time-consuming. “I work very slowly,” she testifies. “It’s like building a ladder, where you’re building your own ladder rung by rung, and you’re climbing the ladder. It’s not the best way to build a ladder, but I don’t know any other way.” I wouldn’t always recommend her approach for you, Aquarius, but I will in 2022. As long as you’re willing to accept gradual, incremental progress, you’ll get a lot of fine work done.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: I’ve selected a quote for you to use as one of your guiding principles in 2022. I urge you to undertake a specific action in the next 24 hours that will prove you mean to take it seriously. Here’s the wisdom articulated by Piscean rabbi and philosopher Marc-Alain Ouaknin: “People must break with the illusion that their lives have already been written and their paths already determined.” It’s reinvention time, dear Pisces.

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Dinner deliverance

Choosing local Nosh delivery service helps Boulder’s independent restaurants survive

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etween COVID variants, ingredient shortages, and hard-to-find workers, Boulder restaurants have struggled the past two years. One thing that has helped them survive has been the pandemic-driven boom in takeout and delivery food.

In the spring of 2022, even bistros that had disdained delivery had to embrace packaging their cuisine for transit to local homes. However, the restaurants had a rude awakening when they realized just how much it cost them for third-party food delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

“Basically, if you order from your favorite restaurant through these services, 30 percent of what you’re paying are commission fees for the big delivery services,” says Nick Graham, director of operations for Nosh, a service which delivers food from Boulder restaurants.

Restaurants either swallow that charge as a cost of marketing or raise their prices to compensate, which consumers may find indigestible.

Nosh is a different model for food delivery service. It is 80 percent owned by Boulder restaurants, employing local drivers and capping the delivery fee at 15 percent per order.

It turns out that who delivers your food is just as important as where you order it from.

“It seems like 15 percent is a sustainable amount to charge that works out for the restaurants, the drivers and the company,” Graham says.

The City of Boulder likes this local solution to food accessibility so much that it is extending its program to pay delivery fees for Nosh customers and commission fees for restaurants through the end of February. Many U.S. cities are capping third-party delivery fees to no more than 15 percent per order, but Boulder has not.

Nosh’s Nick Graham previously worked in a Fort Collins restaurant and saw the delivery challenges first-hand.

“The problem is that the delivery services aren’t local restaurant companies, they’re technology companies. They’re known for pushing hundreds of thousands of orders a day. It shows in their customer service. Their call centers aren’t local so it’s hard to communicate with drivers and to complain about orders. It shows in their fees because the fees are hurting local businesses,” he says.

Another Nosh difference is a focus on food freshness. “DoorDash may collect 10 orders from a single busy restaurant and deliver them in one trip. That means a lot of food sitting on the bar getting cold. The timing of the order is related to when the driver will arrive at the restaurant. The idea is that when the driver is walking into the restaurant the food is just coming out of the kitch-

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en,” Graham says.

Since the restaurants own the service, they can complain and somebody actually listens to them. “They reach out to tell me what’s good, what’s bad, how we can improve the service,” he says.

Nosh also is responsive to complaints from customers about missed orders and items.

“Restaurants take a lot of pride in their customer service. Restaurants are very human experiences. They mean it when they apologize about an order,” he says.

Graham often hears complaints about the fact that Nosh doesn’t deliver alcohol.

“Even though cities like Boulder have approved to-go cocktails for delivery, Colorado law doesn’t allow third-party services to deliver alcohol,” he says. Boulder restaurants that deliver their own food can also deliver alcohol.

Right now, Nosh has about 80 Boulder restaurants signed up and eventually plans to offer delivery in Longmont, Louisville, and Lafayette. “One thing we stand firm on— only independent restaurants. We have one locally-owned national franchise but you won’t see McDonald’s on the list,” Graham says.

Nosh gives Boulder’s independent eateries a chance to compete with the national chains.

“This truly supports the local community and makes sure the money isn’t going to Silicon Valley or New York City or wherever the tech company is located,” Graham says.

Local food news

Restaurants in Louisville that closed because of the Marshall Fire are now gradually reopening. Among those open now are Bawarachi Biryanis, Murphy’s Taphouse, Lamar’s Donuts, and Spice China on McCaslin, and the eateries in Downtown Louisville. Already slammed by COVID, they all took a hit from the fire. Do what you can to dine or get takeout or delivery from these restaurants and help them get through this time when many diners are naturally avoiding the area.

While one restaurant was destroyed—the newly opened Rotary—many other Superior eateries and businesses are so severely smoke damaged they will not open for months. Among them is the 9-year-old Wayne’s Smoke Shack, whose owners lost their home in the fire. Contribute if you can to the many GoFundMe efforts on behalf of Superior businesses and restaurant workers who lost jobs and homes . . . Chef Aaron Lande (of Boulder’s much-loved Eridu) has teamed up with Justin Resech (of Georgia Boys BBQ) and Eli Wiggs to open Main Street Eatery, 628 Main Street, in Longmont . . . Longmont now has a full-service bakery. La Momo Maes, the cake bakery, has been merged with Marketplace Bakery, the bread specialists, at 900 S. Hover Road.

First Bite has initiated a “Food is Love” gift card program for families with schoolchildren affected by the Marshall Fire. Your donations to the “Food is Love” campaign will go to $50 local restaurant gift cards that will be distributed at the five elementary schools most impacted by the wildfire—Coal Creek Elementary, Louisville Elementary, Monarch K-8, Fireside Elementary, and Superior Elementary. Learn more at firstbiteboulder.com/food-is-love

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‘We will recover from this’ Beer and back in Louisville

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e were fortunate,” Tom Horst says in an email. Horst and his wife Kristy own Crystal Springs Brewing in Louisville, and though a few Crystal Springs employees had to evacuate their homes when the Marshall Fire broke out on Dec. 30, 2021, no one was injured or suffered substantial losses. As Horst says, they were the fortunate ones.

Just a few blocks north on Main Street, 12Degree Brewing wrote on its Instagram account that the staff was safe and “grateful to still be standing,” but the fires had knocked out the power, and plunging temperatures froze a sprinkler system pipe. The pipe burst, “resulting in a massive flood in our lower level.”

It took a few days to get everything cleaned up and ensure that the drinking water was safe, but 12Degree and the rest of the Louisville brewing contingent—Crystal Springs, Gravity Brewing, Mother Tucker Brewery, and Redgarden Restaurant and Brewery—are open for business, and, more importantly, as places to recuperate.

“We’re trying to be a ‘third place’ for people,” Horst’s email continues. “Where people can go that feels familiar, where they know the staff cares about them.”

Breweries as business, breweries as community—it’s part and parcel to the entire craft beer movement and one of the many factors helping Coloradans decide to live where they do. And when it comes to third places, Louisville has some of the best in the state.

Though it took some time to get things going: The first to open was Majestic Brewing in 1999. Remember them? Not many do. According to an interview in The New Brewer, Majestic’s game plan was to design a brew specific to female beer drinkers, a cream ale, but the concept didn’t last. By 2002, the company was dissolved.

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery was next, but only as a production facility. Then, in the summer of 2012, Gravity Brewing opened up.

Gravity is housed in the Walter Rhoades Post 111 American Legion, in the Legion’s former ballroom, to be specific, at 1150 Pine Street. The Legion is still there—they share a bathroom and the kitchen, Gastronauts, with Gravity. If

you’ve never been, you should.

Gastronaut’s pizza is outstanding, and Gravity’s Acceleration Double IPA is a thing of beauty, as is the Tsar Bomba Russian Imperial Stout. They have smaller beers, too, if you’re into that sort of thing.

12Degree opened about a year later at 820 Main Street with a lineup of Belgian-inspired brews and eats—Midnight Fog is a quadruple that’ll open your mind to the possibilities of Flemish ales.

But you really ought to try Pining For the Fjords, a light and fruity Monty Python named ale brewed with creamy, funky Kviek yeast. They also have pizza but don’t skip the frites: crispy and oily shells hiding delicious pops of pillowy potatoes.

Next to join the scene: Crystal Springs, which was founded in 2010 in Horst’s garage up Sunshine Canyon.

That’s where Horst perfected his Summertime Kölsch, the beer that Pizzeria Locale turned into a hit.

The demand for Summertime put Crystal Springs over the top, and Horst moved Crystal Springs’ production to 657 S. Taylor Street, which has expanded substantially in the past several years. In 2017, Crystal Springs opened up the taproom at the northeast corner of Main and Elm in downtown Louisville, and it’s a charming place to quaff a pint or three. Summertime Kölsch is still a favorite, but if South Ridge Amber is on tap, do not hesitate.

Next came Redgarden in 2018 at 1700 Dogwood Street and Mother Tucker in 2019 at 1134 W. Dillon Road. Come hungry to Redgarden, but save room for Anti-Social Amber Lager (warm, biscuity, and delicious). As for Mother Tucker, you can’t go wrong with Hefeweizen. It’s not on all the time, but when it is, it’s the beer you want.

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The fires that tore through Louisville may be gone, but the horror wreaked is far from. Keep checking your favorite third place for updates. Many are offering free water for those still without, beer and food for first responders, and help for those who lost everything.

“In the next couple weeks, in partnership with CanSource, we will be releasing a beer with 100 percent of the proceeds from sales going to those impacted by the fires,” Horst writes. You’ve given them so much; now they want to give back.

“Since we’ve been open, through meeting people at our taproom and via my membership on the boards of directors for the Louisville Downtown Business Association and Chamber of Commerce, I’ve gotten to know a lot of people in Louisville and the surrounding communities,” Horst concludes. “They are wonderful, caring, and resilient people. My heart goes out to them. We will recover from this.”

Michael J. Casey is the author of Boulder County Beer, a refreshing history of how a collection of young entrepreneurs turned the cities of Louisville, Lafayette, and beyond into ground zero for craft beer in the Centennial State.

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y inner child was feeling cranky after the first of the year, in need of an uplifting lunch. I wanted a singular sandwich, memorable and well-composed, with nothing excessive added for effect. That’s what I found when I finally stopped in at Le Frigo, Boulder’s French-oriented deli.

The Brexit sandwich spoke to me because it starts with a soft, chewy, malty/salty pretzel roll spread with horseradish aioli. Thin slices of tender pink roast beef (not mystery beef roll), sharp Cheddar cheese, red onion, arugula, and pickle are layered on in just the right proportions.

Other signature Le Frigo sandwiches range from the Le Frigo Royal (with Paris ham, saucisson, prosciutto, and cornichons on a buttered baguette) to the Catalan, a baguette with Serrano ham, aioli, chorizo, olives, and Manchego cheese.

The store also stocks authentic pastries, quiche, croissants and baguettes from Thornton’s La Belle French Bakery, imported French jams, chocolates, cheeses, meats, and local artisan foods such as Longmont-baked Leckerlee Lebkucken cookies.

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ulinary preconceptions and prejudices can get in the way of tasting some mighty fine pie. Not all of Colorado’s best pies are made in diners and tiny bakeries using old family recipes. For instance, the best place to sample toro sashimi, tako nigiri, spider roll, Wagyu kushiyaki, and Maine lobster tempura in Denver also happens to be the best place to enjoy banana cream pie in the city.

Sushi Den is the critics’ perennial choice as the top Denver sushi destination and a pioneer in sourcing fresh fish directly from Japan.

Michiko Kizaki, pastry director for the restaurant, based her banana cream pie on old family-made desserts she loved growing up in Japan. The pie has been on Sushi Den’s menu for 25 years. I love it because fresh banana slices are tucked into real custard with chocolate and whipped cream. The crust is light, thin, and flaky and, in the Japanese tradition, the filling is not too sweet. Excessive sugar is often the downfall of many cream pies. It’s just right.

The lines have always been long to get into Sushi Den. Luckily, the banana cream pie is available for takeout at Sushi Den and its nearby sister restaurant, Izakaya Den.

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long with rice, lentils, flour, canned tomatoes, and dried fruit, little blue boxes of Jiffy Cornbread Mix have had a place on my pantry shelves for decades. People have praised the sweet and savory iterations on the cornbread spectrum I’ve crafted, only to be disappointed when they found out it was Jiffy.

However, I’ve never baked it according to the recipe on the box. For a recent loaf, I drained a can of kernel corn and pureed it in a blender with an egg and some sour cream leftover from the Christmas quiche. Combined with the dry mix and baked it in a very heavily buttered glass loaf pan, the golden result was a joy when toasted and soaked in honey.

Another Jiffy fix to make cornbread moister is substituting buttermilk or coconut milk for the water in the recipe.

I could have made it “corn-ier” by adding popped popcorn pulverized in a blender or fresh or frozen kernels.

Another variation involves adding a half-cup of bacon grease to the recipe and a cup of minced green onions. It makes a nice base for eggs Benedict.

Adding a small can of chopped green chilies to the basic batter and baking it flat on a cookie sheet produces stellar spicy salad crouton cubes.

One of my favorites adds lots of minced garlic, an extra egg, freshly chopped basil, black pepper, and olive oil to the mix, baked with a heavy layer of grated Parmesan on top. It’s garlic bread with some real substance to it.

On the sweet side, Jiffy mix batter makes great blueberry pancakes with the addition of frozen wild berries, honey, vanilla extract, and Greek yogurt.

For upside-down cornbread cobbler, add a layer of sliced peaches or berries to a buttered loaf pan before adding the sweet batter and baking until bubbly.

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Green tide rising

Introducing legal cannabis has positive effects on an area’s labor market, giving lawmakers another reason to legalize

by Will Brendza

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hen Colorado legalized cannabis, there were a lot of skeptics who feared the state’s workforce was about to become lazy and unmotivated.

It was a social experiment, and one that was actually about to affect labor supply and labor demand in this state—just not in the way those skeptics expected.

“When there is a new industry coming up in a region, there are bound to be developments in other [economic] aspects as well,” says Avinandan Chakraborty. “I was interested in the labor markets.”

Chakraborty is a Ph.D student in the University of New Mexico’s Economics Department. He authored a field paper in 2020 titled “The Effects of Recreational Cannabis Access on the Labor Market: Evidence from Colorado” that sought to determine how the introduction of legal cannabis affects an area’s available jobs and workforce. Since not all of Colorado’s counties opened their doors to legal cannabis at once, he saw an opportunity to explore this topic in real time.

“I was really uncertain about what the results would be,” Chakraborty says, “because past studies [of cannabis on labor markets] showed both positive and negative effects.”

He says the older studies typically found more adverse and negative effects, suggesting cannabis was bad for labor supply and demand, while newer studies with more up-to-date data showed more positive results.

“This is an interesting study because there are few counties that haven’t legalized cannabis as there is a stereotype that cannabis is bad,” Chakraborty says. “[Colorado] is a great place to do this research . . . because there is data available.”

For his study, Chakraborty and his team assembled data on labor market outcomes, recreational access, and county characteristics from all of Colorado’s 64 counties. They then used a “Differences-in-Differences” model to estimate the impact a recreational dispensary had on variables of entry. Counties with recreational dispensaries were the “treatment group”

while counties that never allowed for recreational cannabis sales were the “comparison group,” Chakraborty explains.

What they found flies in the face of those negative stereotypes: According to the study’s results, labor markets show a “tightening” effect, driven by more abundant employment opportunities. In counties that legalized cannabis they saw a 0.7 percent decrease in unemployment rates. They also found a 4.5 percent increase in

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the overall number of employees, specifically in cannabis manufacturing and service jobs. That’s because the introduction of legal cannabis brought with it jobs at every link in the cannabis supply chain—from cultivation to retail and management.

“Given the lack of a reduction in labor force participation or wages, negative effects on labor supply are likely limited,” the study’s abstract reads. “The decrease in the unemployment rate, coupled with an increase in the number of employees, indicates that labor demand effects are likely to dominate.”

Essentially, the introduction of legal cannabis created more jobs (labor demand) and resulted in more employed individuals (labor supply), lowering unemployment rates. It was good for everyone overall—like a green tide rising, lifting all ships.

That’s at the county level, Chakraboorty cautions. Whether the same pattern holds true at the state or national level is a question that remains to be answered—and one Chakraborty hopes to explore in follow-up studies. The data he looked at was from 2011-2018 (after cannabis was first legalized in this state) and he thinks that more up-to-date data could provide different (more accurate) observations.

“The results will be, I think, smaller than before because there is competition coming along in this market right now,” he says. “So it will be a great [follow-up] study to see how different states and neighboring states [respond to] the legalization of cannabis. How does that affect the [labor market] effects we’re looking at?”

Either way, Chakraborty says, this preliminary research is promising for cannabis legalization.

Chakraborty contends that it’s important information for lawmakers interested in creating jobs and decreasing unemployment, and for voters who want greater prosperity in their community. “[Policy makers] should know this before legalizing or not legalizing [cannabis],” Chakraborty says. “They should definitely look at the positive side that this new industry coming along is having.”

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