Opinion
COGA lawsuits against Lafayette, Fort Collins are latest insult to citizens...
Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) announced its intention to file lawsuits against Lafayette and Fort Collins over those cities’ election results regarding fracking. Once again, the oil and gas industry is ...
Real people pushed out of TPP talks
Who are you going to believe — Senator Elizabeth Warren or Congressman Jared Polis...
Letters: Aug. 24, 2023
THANKS FOR SUPPORTING THE ARTS
Kudos to the Boulder City Council for voting to advance an initiative for this fall’s ballot extending an existing sales...
USA: low wage nation or good jobs nation?
How’s this for irony? Ronald Reagan — who is worshipped as the supreme deity by small-government, anti-spending zealots — not only has a government office building in Washington named for him, but it’s the biggest and costliest one ever built...
The folly of compulsory national service
The New York Times columnist David Brooks wants to bring back the draft. Or at least some form of compulsory universal national service. He thinks it will bring Americans back together again...
Letters: 8/17/17
On white privilege
On the one hand, there is the boorish, self-aggrandizing pathological liar that is Donald Trump and on the other the millions of...
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...
Letters: July 27, 2023
Re: ‘How a landmark Green New Deal victory was won’
Thanks, Dave . A major victory by DSA-NY, the New York Renews Coalition, which led...
It all began with pizza
In the mid-1960s, my dad served on the school board in Cortez, in rural southern Colorado. He recalled that at one meeting he said...











