Perspectives

The politics — and money — behind our energy blend

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Renewable energy could power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs akin to today’s electricity expenses, according to a new study by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College...

The next NAFTA, but worse

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You can win some impressive victories against corporate power on the local level. Boulder voters declared that corporations aren’t people and money isn’t speech. Cities across Colorado (and other states) have passed fracking bans and moratoriums...

Continue saying no to nukes

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Climate change is the biggest challenge human beings have ever faced. We don’t have much time to deal with it. Unfortunately, political transformation is usually a slow process...

Stand up for your health

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In Denver and Fort Collins, activists with Health Care for All Colorado (HCAC) have just hosted 48th birthday celebrations for Medicare, the highly successful program that has provided comprehensive low-cost health care for older people and the disabled since 1965. ...

Remembering the real dream

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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-...

Amendments 60, 61 and 101 would be disastrous

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Natalie Menten, the voice behind the uber-libertarian movement to pass Amendments 60 and 61, as well as Proposition 101, has accused the groups working to stop those measures of using overblown scare tactics and deception to win support...

A Super Bowl ad we can do without

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Today, there are few corners of our communal life untouched by rancorous political division...

Colorado’s Amendment 64: How the amendment affects the state’s budget

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Editor's Note: See Boulder Weekly's official endorsement of Amendment 64 here...

Attack on 14th Amendment: It%uFFFDs wrong

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  by Gregory Rodriguez...

Shooting from the lip

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The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Jan. 10...

The silent jobless

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Jobs are slowly coming back, but that’s small comfort to more than 13 million Americans who remain unemployed. For every current job opening, four people are still looking for a job. Many others have given up even trying to find work...

The Zinn witch hunt continues

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In 2010, after historian Howard Zinn died, then-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sat down at his computer and started a quiet witch hunt with a flurry of emails to top state education officials. This only became public this summer after the Associated Press obtained copies...