Opinion

Fight the virus or just give up

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Many months ago, public health experts predicted that we would likely have a dark coronavirus winter. Now cases are skyrocketing, the death rate is...

Cops in the schools, gun control and race

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A week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association called for immediately assigning armed police officers to every school in the country. It also called on Congress to appropriate the money to pay for doing so...

Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves

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Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...

Letters | Peace center is irrelevant

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Peace center is irrelevant...

The Oroville Dam: A cautionary tale from 1969

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Curt Gentry was no Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce, but he made a prediction in 1969 that would have done either of them proud —...

Infrastructure for the 1 percent

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The American Society of Civil Engineers grades our national infrastructure a D-plus. We desperately need to modernize our roads, bridges, schoolhouses, railways, airports and...

Letters: 5/10/18

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The world is watching the muni I have spent roughly three months in Boulder now. As a Dutch researcher I have been trying to...

Why would you let Jeff Bezos inside your home?

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Would you give your house key to a complete stranger, letting that person (whose name you don’t even know) walk right into your home...

What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care

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The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...

Letters: 6/23/16

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Be an informed voter There are several contested primary races from the Republican Senate race to the Boulder area state house seat to replace Dickey...

Letters | Show restraint in Libya

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Correction: The March 17 cover story on the Longmont airport stated that there are two city council seats plus the mayor job up for election this November in Longmont. Actually, three council seats and the mayor position are opening up...

Democrats playing too nice with the GOP

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At the beginning of the Colorado legislative session, there was a lot of cheerful chatter about bipartisanship. A fine idea in the abstract...