Opinion

Letters 5/20/21

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Correction: Last week’s Weed Between the Lines (RE: “Getting legalization ‘right,’” May 13), incorrectly listed members of CPEAR. The story has been updated online...

For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet

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Well, if you haven’t figured it out in recent weeks by reading this column, I’m really tired of politicians who just can’t seem to...

Syria and progressives

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Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica  —  and some are cheering...

Canary of the West

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I’ve always had a soft spot for the canary in the coal mine. The way it sings its tune to announce all is well and then falls over dead when the poison gas appears, just to give miners a few precious minutes to save themselves from the same fate. It seems a lot to ...

On Proposition 113: More is needed than eliminating the Electoral College

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I was 11 years old. It was the first presidential election I remember. John Kennedy eventually won with 303 electoral votes and a 112,000-popular-vote advantage....

Presidential candidates talk inequality (sort of)

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At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...

The Highland City Club Has a racism problem

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Guest opinion The Highland City Club is a social center in downtown Boulder for the type of people who can afford their $500 a month...

Guest opinion: Failure to stop Gross Dam expansion is a travesty

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Dear Boulder County Commissioners, The failure to stop the Gross Dam Expansion project can only be described as a terrible and constant string of failures,...

Paying attention

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Trump may not have seemed like a “normal” Republican when he ran for president, but he now has a 90 percent job approval rating...

The green whine over U.S. gas exports

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When Russia took over the Crimea at the start of the month, there were widespread calls in Congress and among the chattering classes (including from me) for the U.S. to fast-track the export of natural gas and oil to Europe in order to lessen Europe’s dependence on ...

A more perfect union

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Current partisan politics frequently returns to questions and debates about the supreme law of the land — The Constitution — as it should, because...

Another corporate path for buying our governmet

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boulderweekly.com/highroad Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t have enough power over our government. If so, let me soothe your fevered brow with a report ...