Opinion

Yikes! The Roughnecks are coming! The first sighting occurred in February, when a band of them known as Crestone Peak Resources filed a Comprehensive Drilling...

The anti-fracking activists who demonstrated at an oil rig on Boulder County open space last Saturday obviously don’t think fracking is very dangerous. How else do you explain the fact that they brought their kids to the demonstration...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2014 94 percent of U.S. soybeans, 93 percent of corn and 90 percent of cotton will be produced from genetically modified plants...

Do we want to create a permanent underclass of non-citizens in the United States? That is a crucial question in the immigration reform debate...

In a recent two-panel cartoon, a character holds a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says:...

North Dakota is one of the three most conservative states in the United States, according to Gallup. Wyoming is number one, with self-identified conservatives...

Pamela White’s article “Pregnant in Prison” moved me to tears (cover story, Feb. 18). Having a wrist or ankle of a woman in labor shackled is shocking and inhumane. Only people who have never given birth would think such a thing is OK...

Correction: Last week’s News story “Campaign contributions, elections and the bureaucratic calendar” (Sept. 24), incorrectly referred to Rep. Mike Foote as Sen. Mike Foot and he sits on the House State Affairs Committee, not the Senate State Affairs Committee. We ...

Correction: A May 23 story, “Home, home on the grange,” reported that there are only two operational granges left in Boulder County. Actually, there is a third: the Left Hand Grange #9 in Niwot...

The Idea Fairy and I were nibbling on a new batch of edibles when there was a knock on the door. It was Saul Alinsky. “Saul,...

The two major parties will have to change, or they are likely to be changed by voters who have had enough,” the Reverend Jesse...

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