Opinion
Letters to the editor, Dec. 11, 2023
Kudos to the governors
I was proud and happy to see Governor Polis of Colorado and Governor Cox of Utah on national TV promoting a...
Students demand action
On March 21, CU-Boulder Students Demand Action (CU-SDA) held our first public meeting, hosting 85 members of the CU-Boulder and greater BVSD community in...
Why the GOP’s fence fantasy is a farce
A proper wall, we’re told, makes good neighbors, but an 18-foot-high, 2000-mile-long wall goes way beyond proper, antagonizes your neighbor and shows your own...
How do coal barons get away with murder?
Coal mining is a filthy business. Literally.
Miners not only get covered in the soot of their trade, but also suffer the suffocating death called...
Letters: Oct. 26, 2023
RE: ‘WHY IS YOUR BALLOT YELLING AT YOU?’
Thanks for publishing Kaylee Harter’s article, WHY IS YOUR BALLOT SHOUTING AT YOU? (News, ‘WHY IS YOUR...
Just Economics: Looking through the lens of ‘The 1619 Project’
In 2019, The New York Times published The 1619 Project, a collection of essays, short stories, and poems intended to revisit United States’ history...
Letters: 2/20/2020
Wild places
The Adventure article, “Quicksand and Barbaric Yawps” (Re: Feb. 13, 2020) about wilderness therapy highlights the importance of the wilderness and wild places...
Letters: 11/14/19
Build on open space?
About a year ago I was attending a Boulder Chamber event in Glenn Miller Ballroom and was in a break-out session...
4/20 smoke-screen
There are so many angles from which to contemplate the wrong that CU is perpetrating with respect to its tactics to end the “4/20 smokeout” that one hardly knows where to begin...
On a positive note… mostly
Folks often ask me why we don’t report more “good news.” I usually fire back something along the lines of “nobody wants to read...
How to lift up America’s middle class
Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...
Self-deception and hidden agendas during the pandemic
The pandemic is challenging governments around the world. However, the Trump administration’s response stands out as monumentally incompetent and corrupt. There was plenty of...
