Opinion
Big political donors buying elections… and public policies
Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...
The bigger picture of rent control
A recent letter to the editor about my column (see The unrepentant tenant, “Rent control: Why or why not?” March 24, 2022) raised some points...
Letters 5/20/21
Correction: Last week’s Weed Between the Lines (RE: “Getting legalization ‘right,’” May 13), incorrectly listed members of CPEAR. The story has been updated online...
Letters: 4/11/19
On student debt
Growing up, I was privileged to know that higher education would always be an option for me and I had a support...
Letters | Crooked cops
The story entitled “The Chair and the Camera” (cover story, Jan. 17) brought to me a sense of deja vu after reading Boulder County Jail spokesperson Jeff Goetz’s defense of injuring and brutalizing citizens in his care. I encountered the same defensive pablum in an ...
Moral Monday on the move
Rosa Parks became a powerful symbol of courage and defiance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s by simply refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus, as the racist culture of that time dictated she was supposed to do...
Modernizing the canvass process for citizen initiatives
Colorado Amendment 71, Raise the Bar, passed in the November election.
It will now take a 55 percent supermajority to amend the state constitution.
Amendment 71...
LETTERS | Week of Feb. 27
Correction: A Feb. 20 article, “Colorado grappling with greenhouse gas inventory,” incorrectly characterized the amount of greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. According to city of Boulder environmental planner Brett KenCairn, global cuts...
Dead miners and ethically dead senators
Some members of Congress complain that they have a really tough job. Also, they say their hard work is not appreciated by the public and that they’re really not paid enough...
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
Disturbing questions about Jan. 6 insurrection and law enforcement
A Republican congressman has described the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill insurrection as a “normal tourist visit.” During the opening hearing of the House select committee...
