Opinion

Letters: 2/16/17

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Longmont a pro-unity, pro-justice city Thanks to City Council Member Polly Christensen, in December 2016 Longmont joined a host of cities across the United States, such...

Saving our ravaged planet — and ourselves

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Earth Day cometh — the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep? Or cheer? Both. The first step toward any recovery is admitting that we have a problem. In fact, beaucoup of them. For example, despite the squawking of profiteering polluters and...

Letters | Of foxes and hens

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Clarification: A July 12 Eco-Brief stated that the EnergySmart program for commercial businesses is expected to end sooner than planned. While rebate funds are expected to be expended by early August, the program will continue providing energy advisors who help ...

Generational opportunity for Colorado’s transportation system

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Colorado and the nation are on the brink of a large infusion of federal and state dollars for infrastructure from the American Rescue Plan,...

Hiding worker injuries from OSHA

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It's painful enough to be injured on the job, but it adds insult to injury when your employer strives to keep your pain a secret from safety authorities...

The alternatives to detaining immigrant families


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With his hastily issued executive order on family separation last week, President Trump presented America with a false choice: If you don’t want me...

Dear BVSD Board of Education: A loss of privilege is not...

On behalf of the Latino Parent Advisory Council (CAPL), we are writing to express our profound disagreement with the district’s decision to pay the...

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...

Letters: 2/22/18

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On the Democratic establishment I very much appreciate the decision-forming information in Joel Dyer’s editorial (Re: “For establishment Dems, it’s Party before people and the planet,”...

Letters: 9/12/19

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Guns have recreational merit This past summer I accompanied my 10-year-old grandson to summer camp at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch near Elbert, Colorado, where my...

U.S. left’s confusion and division over Ukraine

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When Russia invaded Ukraine, a spontaneous non-violent, anti-war rebellion broke out in the Eastern country. Putin is now crushing any dissent with North Korean-like...

Hamas does not give shelter

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If there is one thing Hamas is really good at, it’s digging tunnels. Hamas, and like-minded militant factions like Islamic Jihad, have dug more than a thousand tunnels under the Gaza-Egyptian border. (Last March, Egypt said it had closed more than 1,300.) It has ...