Opinion
Punishing the innocent, enriching the guilty
A recent email to me pretty well sums up the big budget hullaballoo being pushed by tea party Republicans. As the writer put it: “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401ks, took ...
Letters: 2/18/16
TPP is worse than we thought
At long last the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released, and it is worse than anyone...
Progressive hope amid fears of autocracy and fascism
After the Senate Democrats recently passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, California Congress member Ro Khanna told Democracy Now! that it was “a historic...
Getting to know the right wing
Time for another edition of the new game that’s sweeping the nation: “Who’s That Right Winger?” An interconnected network of extremely wealthy, far-right-wing individuals are quietly pushing their ideological, corporatist and plutocratic agenda all across America...
Letters: Aug. 17, 2023
LET’S NOT RECALL MAXINE MOST
Louisville is lucky to have a reproductive rights champion on City Council, Maxine Most. She’s not attempting to make medical...
What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking
Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...
Letters: 1/28/16
Historic use of the Waldrop Trail
In 1969 Ingvar Sodal, a Norwegian engineer, started Colorado Mountain Club Boulder group’s cross-country ski school and encouraged the...
Letters: 4/2/2020
The China Plague?
“Danish Plan” in the March 2020 issue of Boulder Weekly starts with “The latest China Plague.” Either Paul doesn’t know that coronavirus...
Anti-fracking initiative uses, uh, unpaid petition circulators
Anti-fracking activists have got their shorts in a knot because pro-fracking activists have been shadowing some of their Initiative 97 petition circulators and urging...
Big Beer deceivers and bullies
It’s bad enough that the goliaths of Big Beer are consuming each other in a new round of mega-mergers, meaning fewer choices and higher prices for consumers — but the really bad news is that they’re also going after the one bright spot on tap in bars all across the ...
The Cutter incident: A cautionary tale for Operation Warp Speed
The Trump administration is calling its push for a coronavirus vaccine “Operation Warp Speed.” If you don’t find the name cringe-worthy, you’re not old...
Guess who’s pushing for prison reform?
Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass imprisonment policies...











