LETTERS | Week of Jan. 2

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Letters: 5/24/18

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Opinion

A Congress of comics: Laugh ’til it hurts

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And now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show...

After defeat, far right contemplates insurrection

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Back in August, I was startled to read a lengthy New York Times article — “Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers...

Where does inequality come from?

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The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon — it’s caused intentionally by policy decisions that corporate...

Smeared again

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If the mayor of a fishing village decried shark attacks, and the headline in the next day’s paper read, “Mayor opposes fish,” you might think the paper had it in for him. That’s about where Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running for president, stood with the ...

Where is AI driving us?

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With chaos in the White House, worsening climate disasters, more wars than we can count and a wobbling economy here at home, the last...

A tale from The Swamp

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I’ve been spending the summer cleaning out a locker (aka the black hole) at an undisclosed location in north Boulder, which means I’ve been...

Dilemma 2020

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Trump might be re-elected. He is highly unpopular but his Democratic opponent might end up being just as unpopular after a likely vicious campaign....

UMAS remains as important as ever as it turns 50

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Whenever the topic of civil rights is discussed, the conversation almost always revolves around relations between whites and African Americans. It is interesting that...

Asylum seekers need compassion, not surveillance

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When President Biden released his budget on April 9, a little-known part of it hit very close to home for me. I recently accompanied...

U.S. being treated like a developing nation

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You know the old story of U.S.-based multinational corporations moving plants to the developing world, where they have a more “business-friendly,” unregulated environment under...

Letters: 10/24/19

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America’s exploding population predicament Yes, millions of refugees worldwide desperately want to immigrate to Europe, Canada and America. Yes, they face horrific challenges in their...

Letters 10/29: On the muni, water districts and more

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Empower the vision Voting no on 2C is not just about the Xcel franchise. It is a reaffirmation of a commitment to our energy future....