Opinion
How hedge fund billionaires literally ‘check’ the people’s will
Donnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton...
Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three...
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing...
Letters: July 27, 2023
Re: ‘How a landmark Green New Deal victory was won’
Thanks, Dave . A major victory by DSA-NY, the New York Renews Coalition, which led...
Legalize marijuana
I’m writing about Robert Sharpe’s thoughtful letter, “Jail is not a pot deterrent” (Letters, Nov. 26). According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 44 percent of adults believe that pot is just as dangerous as, or more dangerous than, alcohol (http://tinyurl.com/lqmqqz). ...
Thoughts on the Fourth of July
It’s 11:17 p.m., July, 4 2015. The illegal fireworks are still going off. It’s been a constant cacophony since 5 p.m. as God intended it to be...
Redeveloping 11th and Pearl
Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...
Letters: 9/29/16
‘The Other’
It is impossible for me to believe that households in and near Twin Lakes in the Gunbarrel area, are being ingenuous about their...
A curse, a blessing and a good food movement
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture...
We need to act now to fight wildfires
For the 2021 fire season, the writing is on the wall. The West, despite a few days of intense winter, is far drier than...
Populism: bigoted scapegoating or multiracial progressivism?
Populism isn’t a coherent ideology, argues John Judis, but “a way of thinking” about politics that can be employed by the left, right or...
30 years later, why Otrona didn’t compute
It didn’t come as a shock when I turned 70 last summer. I had seen it coming for a long time...





