Opinion

Ding, dong. The snake is dead...

Amazing! Some people who’ve long enjoyed a lifestyle of oldmoney elegance, are suddenly trying to downscale their lives and show a bit more of the common touch...

“Why should I do anything for posterity...

Here’s an inconvenient little truth that keeps getting lost in the shuffle when local activists start hyper-ventillating about fracking: If you want to ban fracking, you may end up paying through the nose...

Lafayette council is fracked...

CORRECTION: A March 3 letter to the editor from Carah Wertheimer of Boulder mistakenly carried the name Sarah Krcal of Lafayette. Krcal’s real letter appears in this issue, edited for length...

President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and...

It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...

It’s one thing for Big Oil frackers to bust into our Earth, our communities and our economic well-being — but the fracking fad is also busting the free speech rights of locals who dare to speak out against it...

Pot principles...

(Re: “Demand more from Walmart,” May 9.) On April 25, as part of national actions to support Walmart workers seeking higher wages, more hours and more transparent scheduling, I and two friends met with managers at seven area Walmart stores — the Neighborhood Market ...

How close is Iran to getting the bomb? A lot closer than you might think and a lot closer than the Obama administration has let on. The truth is hiding in plain sight. It’s in the arithmetic of uranium enrichment. The arithmetic shows that the Iranian nuclear ...