Opinion
On Proposition 113: More is needed than eliminating the Electoral College
I was 11 years old. It was the first presidential election I remember. John Kennedy eventually won with 303 electoral votes and a 112,000-popular-vote advantage....
How gun rights helped mainstream neo-fascists
As we anticipate the end of the pandemic, things are starting to get back to “normal.” What does that mean? In 2019, “we pretty...
Letters: 9/19/19
Strike for the climate
Please join the world-wide Climate Strike events, a collaboration of 350.org and other organizationss inspired by the young Swedish woman Greta...
Democracy and ordinary people
“Freedom is never given; it is won. A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic,...
AOC thinks white supremacy is behind climate change…
A couple weeks ago Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) claimed that climate change is linked to, wait for it, white supremacy.
She also claimed...
Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105
Editors note: Paul Danish’s views are his own and do not represent the views of Boulder Weekly, which is endorsing a yes vote on Proposition 105. Paul Danish would like to state that the Boulder Weekly’s views are its own and do not represent the views of Paul Danish...
The March for Science and the missing protest sign
Whatever else last weekend’s marches for science accomplished, they produced some of the best protest signs in years. (My favorite for sheer comedic creativity...
Letters | Value of independent media
Kudos to Boulder Weekly for embodying Gandhi’s Satyagraha, “insistence on truth.” Without BW we wouldn’t have learned this summer that DA Stan Garnett and City Attorney Tom Carr both lied to disguise how they covered for council members who don’t make mandatory ...
Letters: 3/1/18
Reading between the lines
Thanks to Joel Dyer for his brutally honest assessment of Joe Neguse’s candidacy and the “establishment” Democrats in general (Re: “For...
Who needs Wall Street giants?
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and the other Wall Street behemoths that dominate American banking — who needs ‘em...
Gun nut has a warning
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...
Letters | Fight to protect dispensaries
Fight to protect dispensaries (Re: “Seed-to-sale surveillance,” cover story, June 2.) Hopefully, everyone who saw the barcode on the picture of a cannabis leaf on the front of the Boulder Weekly realized that something has gone terribly wrong in Colorado. The purpose...