Opinion
Medicare for All is a solution for the pandemic crisis
It gets tiresome staying at home (if you are able to) or wearing a mask and social distancing when encountering other humans. So you...
Letters: Nov. 10, 2022
Correction: In Best of Boulder East County (Oct. 27, 2022), we incorrectly labeled Native Roots as the winner of the CBD category in the...
The oil and gas war is over?
“Today, with the signing of this bill, it is our hope that the oil and gas wars that have enveloped our state are over,...
Letters 1/9/2020
A metaphor
Historically, World War II, “The Last Good War,” was fought to prevent Hitler’s military conquest of Europe and the Soviet Union. Metaphorically, it...
Why Nicaraguan kids aren’t fleeing
While many kids from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras flee to the United States, few children from neighboring Nicaragua do. Nicaragua is poor like those nations, but it lacks what experts consider to be the main cause for the migration: high crime and violence. ...
Letters: 1/23/20
Danish wrong on Iran
I found the article in the Jan. 15, 2020 by Paul Danish (Re: “Trump puts a horse head in the Ayatollah’s...
Uniting to fight Citizens United
boulderweekly.com/highroad The problem with being pious in politics is that piety has a way of backfiring — and causing people to snicker at you. Take Citizens United, for example. It’s a right-wing political outfit that hails itself as a righteous champion of ...
Rep. Neguse shouldn’t let Congress ban FaceTime and Amazon Prime
Imagine a world in which Amazon isn’t allowed to offer Prime free shipping. Or Google can’t show you a map of the top-ranked pizza...
The Hansen letter
Although it may be a bit rude to put it this way, climatologist James Hansen is the high priest of global warming alarmism. He once referred to coal trains as “death trains” that would be “no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with ...
A morally untenable corporate system
This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...












