Opinion

Climate science — and why the world won’t listen

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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...

Failure was never an option

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In the spring of 1993, a recent California transplant set about the task of launching a new weekly paper in Boulder, Colorado, called Boulder...

Letters | Danish right on Palestine

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Danish right on Palestine...

The expletives of Wall Street

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Wall Street is a bizarre place. It masquerades as a sober center of finance, but it operates as a wide-open bazaar of anythinggoes gambling games. Recently, the biggest casino player of them all, Goldman Sachs, made a bizarre effort to strike a sober public pose ...

Letters: 3/12/2020

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Bernie Sanders wants us well When I get sick or injured, I feel instantly vulnerable. I feel compassion all at once for anyone who’s sick...

Gun nut has a warning

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When I was a young man growing up in rural Oregon, there was a term for people like me: “gun nut.”  By my 20s I...

Letters: 1/25/18

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On open space agriculture I’d like to offer some comments from the perspective of heritage farmers and beekeepers in Boulder County on the article, “Cropped...

‘Socialism’ is no longer a dirty word

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t expect to become a “Democratic giant slayer” as the New York Times would call her. The 28-year-old bartender and waitress from...

The Supreme coup

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Desite 234 years of progress toward the American ideal of equality for all, we still have to battle unfairness...

Fighting racism: Building coalition among racial minorities

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The protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by four Minneapolis police officers rightfully reflected waves of anger and activism in the United...

The Cannonball River slobs

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The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them. Slobs. Now that the...

Let’s tell the truth about those big, bad wolves

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The return of wolves to the West has always been contentious, and the deaths last fall of more than 40 cattle in western Colorado...