Opinion

Making the visible invincible

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Boulder is a sacred place. The majestic Flatirons blanket the city with the memories of the people native to this land. To live in...

The man who sold Mars

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The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk. A couple months ago Musk, the founder...

Tenants have rights in eviction court. NEWR makes sure they can...

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Boulder may not be an epicenter of COVID-19 infections, but the virus and economic fallout are upending lives all the same. Almost 20,000 Boulder...

Trump exposes liberal ignorance of the working class

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The working class is invisible in this country much of the time. But in election years, the white folks in this demographic are discussed...

Capitalism’s fascist temptation

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In 1928, U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon pushed the Federal Reserve Board to aggressively hike interest rates to control inflation and credit-fueled stock market...

PERA should divest from fossil fuels for the climate as well...

Colorado legislators and Colorado’s state pension fund — Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) — should be paying close attention to the fact that a...

Hiding behind the flag

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Last year, while attending city council meetings in Longmont, where the town’s new oil and gas regs were being debated, one particular family in attendance caught my attention. This family included a couple of kids, never missed a meeting and, to put it mildly, was ...

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...

Boulder can choose compassion over exclusion

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We started the Bedrooms Are For People campaign to make Boulder a more inclusive and welcoming place to call home. We want to live...

2018 elections: A very brief look at what we learned

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Let’s start with something positive on the national front — hope lives. We are better off today than we were on Nov. 5. And while...

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...

Libraries are the frontlines of democracy. We must fund them.

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These are uncertain times. As America faces increasing waves of anti-democratic fervor, Colorado has stood as a bulwark.  I’m proud of the work we’ve done...