Opinion
The fantasy of inflation increasing rents
It seems that locally and nationally, housing prices may have peaked, in that there are fewer bidding wars over units for sale, and houses/condos...
Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators
Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...
Letters | Follow Longmont’s example
Boulder County as a whole needs to follow the example of Longmont and pass a ban on fracking throughout the entire county. Article 2, Section 3 of the Colorado Constitution states: “Section 3. Inalienable rights. All persons have certain natural, essential and ...
The disuniting of America
The Bible doesn’t say that money is the root of all evil — rather, it condemns the love of money...
The Bernie Sanders revolution is just getting started
The Bernie for President campaign is over, but the political revolution that he launched against corporate rule is just beginning.
Sanders and...
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...
Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November
Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep.
Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...
Wall Street’s ‘Mom & Pop’ bankers
Don´t cry for Jamie Dimon, America. As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall ...
Letters | A vote for privacy
Jeff Dodge’s excellent article exposing the traceability of ballots in Boulder (“Can your vote be traced?” Sept. 7) raises interesting political scenarios as well the obvious privacy concerns. Consistent with Dodge’s report, Clerk Hall has now reportedly communicated...
How to provide higher learning at a lower price
I have a modest proposal for making the college experience more affordable, accessible, excellent and just plain better...
Letters: 4/5/18
Republican-lite Dems
Today’s Democratic Party has distilled into Republican-lite. And it’s not tasting nice.
This party is no longer the party of anti-war, anti-Wall Street, pro-environment,...













