Perspectives
Obama, like past leaders, a slow starter
Happy first anniversary, Barack Obama. Although happy is probably the wrong word...
State of the Union: What I needed to hear
I felt great after the Jan. 27 State of the Union address...
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...
Towns fight back against fracking
A growing boom in natural gas drilling near homes and schools prompted the city of Longmont to vote last July to bar new oil and gas permits in residential neighborhoods...
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 (...
Another water battle to keep an eye on
While citizens of Boulder and Larimer counties battle horizontal fracking and the mess associated with it, countless communities in Latin America, Asia and Africa are trying to stop open-pit mega-mining in order to save their water...
Domestic violence: A private matter?
Perhaps it’s time to retire the term “domestic violence.” It seems that some folks still believe it’s somehow different than regular, ordinary old violence...
Facing a crossroads
Woody Allen once said that “more than any time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” Our reliance upon fossil fuels has ...
Idolatry of Ronald Reagan doesn’t square with his history
Ronald Reagan, one of America's least-known liberals...
Danish is wrong on guns
In his op-ed “Repeal the 2nd Amendment? How about the First?” (Dec. 27), Paul Danish erroneously tries to equate my call to repeal the Second Amendment with censorship and then disingenuously suggests that if the Second Amendment is repealed then the First Amendment ...
Cooperating on health care
Many people believe Obamacare (or the Affordable Care Act) established a universal health care system like those that exist in every other industrialized country...
