Guest Columns
Boulder County should have the final say on Gross Dam expansion,...
Denying Denver Water’s 1041 application may be our only hope of saving Coal Creek Canyon and the north shore of Gross Reservoir from many...
’Tis the Season to defeat pipelines
The recent failure to issue the final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made international news as...
Vote No on 71 to protect direct democracy
Citizen access to our last vestige of direct democracy — the statewide ballot initiative — is under attack. As organizers of recent ballot initiatives...
COVID carnage in India
Over the last 10 days, witnessing the bleak and horrific toll that COVID has taken across India, and all territories that India illegally occupies,...
Closing the education gap
A recent article in the Daily Camera, the biannual Trends Report published by the Community Foundation of Boulder County, and the 2013 report by the...
Congress should lower drug costs, but look beyond numbers
In Congress, policy negotiations often center on a couple questions: how much does the bill cost and how much does the bill save? But...
Community rights versus environmental destruction: Time to turn the page
In the fall of 2013, a group of community members fighting to ban fracking in Lafayette met with our local State Representative, Mike Foote....
Lessons for Boulder in the wake of Hurricane Harvey
Historically, the Houston area has experienced many devastating storms. By the 1980s, public officials understood the critical value of the wetlands and prairies, long...
A peaceful display is met with violence
Guest opinion by Charlie Danaher
History is replete with examples of peaceful movements being met with violence. Sometimes the violence is perpetrated by the state,...
A more perfect union
Current partisan politics frequently returns to questions and debates about the supreme law of the land — The Constitution — as it should, because...
Why environmental groups support the muni
Who will control our renewable energy future? The fossil fuel industry has controlled energy in the U.S. for the last century. As we move...
Ma Xcel, things have changed
Our situation is not comparable to anything in the past. It is impossible, therefore, to apply methods and measures which at an earlier age...
