Opinion

(Re: “Medical association: Reconsider pot," In Case You Missed It, Nov. 19.) While I’m thrilled that the American Medical Association has finally urged the federal government to rethink its prohibitionist stance on medical marijuana, I can’t help but wonder about ...

Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...

Technology and kids I am an LPC that has worked with addicted populations for years and who now works with Boulder County police in...

I recently read the opinion piece about “Welcoming more racial diversity through affordable housing” by Shane Czarnecki (Re: Guest Column, Dec. 24, 2020), and I...

Even Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous...

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...

As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...

Response to 'Signature Time for Anti-Fracking Initiatives' It is unfortunate that Boulder Weekly, once again, wrote a story about proposed anti-energy ballot initiatives without even...

If you want to know why fracking is here to stay, consider what’s been going on in Weld County...

Water scarcity is getting scary, and banning long showers is not even a drop in the solution bucket. The biggest water sponge by far is...

Like the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the State of Colorado contains a clause protecting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s found...

I have a modest proposal for solving the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico without building a fence along the border or granting amnesty to those here illegally. Conquer Mexico. You know. Kind of like conquistadors, only north to south this time. Get ...