Opinion
Letters: 6/8/17
Financial info discloses fracking risks
The oil and gas industry lies to people living near their operations — people forced by state law into risking...
Blast Boulder’s history? No, keep the devil in Devil’s Elbow!
A screech of tires, a skid and a crack of metal [in July] in Four Mile Canyon, just west of Boulder, were a few of the gut-wrenching sounds that echoed through the twisty canyon. It was a nasty accident for a cyclist, one of dozens who traverse the canyon every day. ...
How is Trump like Humpty-Dumpty?
Comandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman!
That’s the image our current commander-in-chief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened...
Making the visible invincible
Boulder is a sacred place. The majestic Flatirons blanket the city with the memories of the people native to this land. To live in...
Big beer, big bully
If “bigger is better,” as the old saw claims, does that mean that biggest is best? Not in CorporateWorld. Chanting the bigger-is-better mantra, corporations...
Why Boulder Weekly is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president
If there is anything more perplexing to me than people who plan to vote for Donald Trump at the merciful end of this interminable...
Torture and abuse at the southern border
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I last crossed the U.S.-Mexican border illegally and spent a few days making my way...
North Carolina’s Kafkaesque war on the unemployed
Something profoundly awful has seeped into the top strata of American society: Our nation’s corporate and political elites have developed an immunity to shame...
Letters: 8/9/18
On StarWater Wednesday
Just to clarify: StarWater Wednesday at VisionQuest Brewery is a carnival of hot creativity. (Re: “Just the Beginning,” Arts & Culture, July...
I fought for our country. Now NFL players are kneeling for...
I’m a veteran of the U.S. Army. So it may come as a surprise that the day I read about NFL players kneeling during...
Letters | Fiery fracktivism
(Re: “Can you hear us now?” DyerTimes, Dec. 6.) I was a part of the action at the Dec. 4 Boulder County commissioners meeting. Those of us who initiated the action did so because of the urgency and attention the issue of fracking in Boulder County needs. Citizens ...