Opinion
Boulder County needs an authentic choice for County Commissioner
Heading into the 2018 elections, Boulder County faces two divergent futures — either extending the status quo with a dangerous game of insider politics,...
Five questions for the director of the COGCC
At 9:05 a.m. on July 31, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) will be holding a public meeting at CU School of...
The road to the Danish Plan
It would be wrong to say that Boulder wasn’t concerned about growth until 1971. In the 1950s and 1960s Boulder was plenty concerned about growth — specifically about how to get more of it...
A new generation of leadership at the Weekly
Several
years ago I became aware of a powerful yet simple model of life, called the
Four Ashramas. According to Hindu tradition, each of the Ashramas,...
The free market fascist assassination on D.C.’s Embassy Row
When the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001, people in Chile remembered another 9/11 in 1973. That's when Chile's democratically elected government led...
Thoughts on work and compensation
Presently in the United States we are experiencing a wealth gap not seen since the gilded age. A plethora of explanations exist for this...
The cost of killing nuclear power
”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I
t’s been obvious for a...
The war on unions rages on
On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The Washington Post...
Standing like Standing Rock
I have been following the peaceful protest happening at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. I have been watching and listening as Native Americans...
U.S. imperial plans regarding Venezuela
Giselle Cesin’s recent column (re: ‘An insider’s view of the Venezuelan crisis, March 7) from an opposition perspective enumerated a number of reasons why...
Who knew? Rental deposits are strongly protected
Overall, Colorado doesn’t have a lot of tenant protections — it regularly ranks near the bottom when it comes to evictions, right to repairs...
A new recording sheds more light on the questionable efforts to...
It’s been one long, hard road to get the 2,500-foot setback initiative (Initiative 97) on the November ballot. Not because the majority of people...
