Opinion
Letters: 2/28/19
On Venezuela
In today’s mainstream media, meaning among Hillary Clinton Democrats and all Republicans, Trump’s aggression against Venezuela is being viewed as a bold stroke...
Letters: June 8, 2023
RE: RAYBACK AND THE WELL
I have two issues with Nicole Garcia’s comments in the “Risky Business” article (News, May 25, 2023). First, Nicole states,...
Letters: March 30, 2023
CAN YOU SAY ‘DIRTY HIPPIE’?
I have mixed feelings about BW’s cover story about advice from Boulder’s “meme queen,” particularly the response “Help, I’ve Fallen...
Sanders, Warren and the art of media distraction
If you follow politics regularly, you have reason to be angry about something every day. Trump deliberately provokes liberal outrage constantly with petty and...
Baghdad by the Rockies loses its charm
As Enrico Fermi once remarked, “Where is everybody?” According to the latest estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 the City of...
A bawdy house of bad right-wing ideas
If you’re wondering where Congress’ next truly bad idea will come from, keep an eye on a secretive far-right-wing outfit called ALEC — the...
DACA and the politics of cruelty
It wasn’t long ago that we awoke to images and stories of families separated at the border, of migrant children locked into dirty, crowded,...
Letters and corrections: July 20, 2023
Editor’s note:The news story “Turf war,” published on July 13, included an inaccurate account of lethal prairie dog mitigation allegedly used by Boulder County....
The educated working poor: Adjunct professors
There’s a growing army of the working poor in our USofA, and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s...
Putin’s far right disinformation
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is shocking but how surprising is it? British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr said on Twitter, “We failed to acknowledge...
