Opinion

Gagging on ag-gag laws

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Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals...

Fracking: Too late for ‘small and easy progress’

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Across the globe, the movement to ban fracking is growing. France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland and the Netherlands have stopped this dangerous practice. So have...

Bezos buys a big piece of power

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An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse...

We must be honest about what the coronavirus outbreak will mean...

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In the wake of the global COVID-19 outbreak, which has caused the biggest disruption to life as we know it and to the economy...

Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy

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A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney...

Letters 12/31: On the stimulus, the GOP and more

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What to do? Contact lawmakers Excellent suggestions for meaningful ways to beat pandemic boredom. (Re: “What to do when there’s ‘nothing’ to do,” Events, Dec....

Sanders’ populist surge

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Not only have crowds been streaming into arenas all around the country to hear Bernie Sanders’ fact-studded speeches, but ordinary Americans have also been...

The other epidemic we must fight is white supremacy

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Twenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder...

Letters 1/27/22

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We need explanations I was in Denver when the Marshall Fire destroyed my neighborhood of 22 years, Sagamore. But the firsthand accounts I am hearing...

Letters | More on the elk

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(Re: “Priorities, people,” ICUMI, Jan. 17.) I am not a resident of Boulder so cannot speak to the legacy of city control, but have aligned in outrage with the conscientious and right-minded citizens of Boulder and formed some impressions concerning the elk murder...

Trump’s racism will hit his supporters in their pocketbooks

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Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” —Ken Cuccinelli,...

Money talks

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Denver went first. In 2020 — a year after the Colorado Legislature passed HB 19-1210, allowing municipalities to set a higher minimum wage than...