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War on fracking

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Opinion

How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists)

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Talk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan

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The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...

Which side are you on … Congressman Polis

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“Numerous reports in the business press make it clear that the agreement presents grave risks on all sorts of topics.” — Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz...

Trump-connected lobbyists are cashing in on COVID-19 relief

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As millions of Americans continue to get sick and lose their jobs, and with more than 100,000 dead as a result of the novel...

Letters 1/28: On CU’s visiting scholar, and more

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On CU’s visiting scholar CU Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano cited the First Amendment in his reasoning for not firing John Eastman, the visiting professor who...

Why are we taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime?

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Do the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card...

Why Medicare for All is the only answer

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Under our current patchwork health care system, the United States spends many times more than other rich nations on health care administration, pharmaceuticals and...

The meek reality behind Trump’s pose as a Bull Moose Populist

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It’s been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares? What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining...

Boulder needs a municipal oil company

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Many Boulder residents chafe under the tyranny of Big Oil, which supplies the gasoline, natural gas and asphalt in the Whole Foods parking lot on which their survival depends...

Trump’s war on workers

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Trump proclaims himself the savior of the screwed-over “forgotten men and women” of the working class. Every day, he hogs the media spotlight with...

Boulder’s occupancy limits are not discriminatory

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Eric Budd’s recent opinion piece, “Boulder Needs Equal Housing Access in the City Charter,” (Guest Column, July 30, 2020), argues that Boulder’s occupancy rules...

A bright spot for Boulder renters on repairs

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In my last column (Unrepentant Tenant, “Do tenants have a right to a habitable home?”, Sept. 8, 2022), I wrote about the history of...