Opinion
Same voices = same outcomes
At Foundations for Leaders Organizing for Water and Sustainability (FLOWS), we center, elevate and celebrate the knowledge of underinvested and disproportionately impacted communities in...
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is encouraging as we...
How do we organize together in social movements with longevity? Our collective strategies, our power analyses, and our direct action can bring about lasting...
Progressives outperform and democracy gets a reprieve
The apocalypse has been averted in the midterms. There was a fragile, informal, anti-fascist united front from Noam Chomsky to Liz Cheney. Joe Biden...
Will Trump be the new Lincoln?
Donald Trump may go down in history as the next Abraham Lincoln.
No, really. And all because of California. California is seriously thinking about doing...
Worth a fortune
About a decade ago, I cracked open a fortune cookie after lunch at Tsing Tao with the Boulder Weekly editorial staff.
“You have found good...
It’s not the answer that’s blowing in the wind
There’s an old saying that history will repeat itself, which is why I encourage folks to visit the Colorado History Museum and check out...
2018 elections: A very brief look at what we learned
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...
Job market not so much to brag about
Noticing all the rosy accolades about the job market in the commercial media, one would think the economy is on cloud nine and workers...
Progressive hope amid fears of autocracy and fascism
After the Senate Democrats recently passed the $3.5 trillion budget resolution, California Congress member Ro Khanna told Democracy Now! that it was “a historic...
How the Green New Deal wins
This month, the U.S. House passed the most comprehensive pro-labor legislation since the 1930s. The PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act would significantly...
Imagine a great river, flowing free
Some environmental groups and water honchos have sponsored a “Rewilding of Glen Canyon” contest, with the winner getting $4,000 “and counting.” The contest’s goal...
Is your lease fair, and what’s the alternative?
In my June 30 column (The Unrepentant Tenant, “Interest on deposits and repairs for tenants”), I was skipping through the issues the Boulder Tenants...