Opinion

Human Relations Commission Letter to Boulder City Council on Police Oversight...

Dear Members of the Boulder City Council, We, the members of the City of Boulder’s Human Relations Commission, are writing to express our grave concerns...

Money in CD2 race

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Saturday, April 21, I attended the BoCo Dems candidate forum for Colorado’s second congressional district candidates Joe Neguse and Mark Williams. Attendees were asked...

Reflections on Walmart’s exit from Boulder

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In any community, everybody should have access to affordable, decent-quality necessities of life. At the same time, all companies involved in the production and...

Trump and the neo-Nazi investment adviser

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Shortly before the 2016 vote, far right militias were preparing to defend Donald Trump in case the election was stolen by Hillary Clinton. That’s...

Trump destroyed the Rojava project

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When Turkey invaded Syria, there was almost universal condemnation across the political spectrum. But the most unique protesters are the anarchists all over the...

Hand-crafted

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A few years ago, just before my retirement, I knew I had achieved true “elder” status on the faculty when I announced, just as I...

Boulder, Uber, Google and traffic

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I have a modest proposal for dealing with Boulder’s traffic mess: outsource the problem to Google and Uber. Boulder’s traffic mess is bad; the worst...

Follow Trump’s money

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Almost certainly, we are in the middle of the biggest political scandal in American history. After Trump’s obsequious performance in Helsinki, it feels like...

Three ways City Council’s gun ban will make Boulder less safe

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The common theme that ran through the testimony of the 30 people who spoke in favor of Boulder’s proposed assault rifle ban last week...

Pot at the tea party

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The Boston Tea Party, the original one, occurred on the night of December 16, 1773, when the Sons of Liberty, some cunningly disguised as Ward Churchill, threw 342 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor. But truth be told, as a date to hold ...

Presidential selection transparency issues at the University of Colorado

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With the selection of current interim President Todd Saliman as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Colorado system, CU’s governing...

Inside the Trojan horse

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In an era of political deception it can be difficult to separate the genuine from the phony. One tried and true strategy to weed...