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The Column That Couldn't Be Printed Jon Caldara Opinion Editorial May 30, 2004 The office of Homeland Security spent the week warning us that Al Qaeda might be a serious threat this summer.The FBI dispatched a bulletin to some 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies warning of the threat.  The Boulder Police responded immediately by performing an under-age drinking sting in bars on the Hill.When international danger lurks, Boulder swings into action.Believing that the current color-coding system of yellow, orange, and red alerts is insensitive to people of color, city council is re-naming the alert system for Boulder. ...

URL: http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/insight/article/0,1713,BDC_2494_2939137,00.htmlCaldara: We can laugh, but only if it's at the rightJune 6, 2004My column didn't appear in last Sunday's Daily Camera. I wrote it. But my editors chose not to run it. This happens only rarely, but nobody likes getting their work yanked. So when you see that I'm not here, it isn't always because I'm too hung-over to write. Of course it is an editor's prerogative to 86 anything he doesn't want in his paper. Some even think that's his job. And I, along with you, have been amazed that I haven't been given the pink slip a...