Perspectives
ALEC’s attack on renewables arrives in Colorado
America’s solar industry supplies less than 1 percent of the electricity in the U.S. but has experienced explosive growth. Unfortunately, there’s growing opposition from the utilities. A recent study by utilities think tank the Edison Electric Institute candidly ...
If the NRA has its way on gun control …
It’s a weekday at the Follis household, and 12-year-old non-identical twins Button and Pout are headed downstairs — getting ready for school. This morning, the girls are being “difficult...
Boulder County Democrats in conflict
A recent Pew survey states that 50 percent of conservative voters and 35 percent of progressives say that it’s important to live where most people share their political views. In Colorado, this political self-segregation is seen in the stark differences between ...
Colorado’s Amendment 64: How the amendment affects the state’s budget
Editor's Note: See Boulder Weekly's official endorsement of Amendment 64 here...
Remembering the real dream
Every January on Martin Luther King Day, people across the political spectrum claim King as one of their own. Few remember that he had become a pariah in mainstream politics in his last days. He was widely condemned for his opposition to the Vietnam War. Right-...
Limit corporate welfare
Tea party politicians are denounced for their dangerous antics, but their doomsday warnings about profligate government spending are the conventional wisdom of the so-called “moderates” of big business, the mainstream media and too many politicians of both parties (...
Bowl a strike for reproductive freedom
Everybody knows abortion became legal for all women with the ‘Roe v. Wade’ Supreme Court decision in 1973. Fewer people know that in 1976, poor women lost that fundamental right to determine whether or when to have children. That is the year that the Hyde Amendment (...
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ should end now
On Tuesday, the Defense Department unveiled its...
Fix our bridges already
The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Seattle seemed to be in good shape for a 58-year-old structure. Inspected as recently as last November, it wasn’t even on the list of bridges judged “structurally deficient.” Yet in May, it suddenly ...
Renewable energy threatens big utilities
Solar power and other renewable energy technologies may destroy U.S. investor-owned utilities...
Stand up for Walmart workers
Courageous Walmart workers have been striking and committing civil disobedience around the country...
