Opinion

Standing Up to Trump at COP23

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President Donald Trump’s attempt at pushing a fossil fuel agenda at this year’s 23rd United Nations climate talks (COP23), includes coal, oil, nuclear and...

Amazon workers’ win and fragile promise of union revival

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This April Fools’ Day, David beat Goliath. It wasn’t a joke. Workers at Amazon’s huge warehouse on Staten Island voted to form a union...

German coup plotters borrow from QAnon, Jan. 6

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On Dec. 7, some 3,000 German police officers and special forces raided 150 locations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as in...

Shifting the focus of human rights in Boulder

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Boulder has long been a leader in the area of human rights and social justice reform. Our journey began more than 40 years ago...

Worth a fortune

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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...

Two Western states act to control methane

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New Mexico, the third-ranking U.S. oil producer, has moved to curtail methane pollution from the oil and gas industry, moving it closer to neighboring...

Universal health care for Colorado

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Colorado may become the first state to establish a universal health care system in the U.S. In July, the Secretary of State certified a proposed initiative for the 2016 ballot that would create a universal cooperative plan called ColoradoCare. They have to collect 99...

Honoring our first responders

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The Sunshine Canyon Fire was nowhere near as big a disaster as the Marshal Fire, but it could have been. Thanks to the immediate...

What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking

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Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...

Scapegoating immigrants

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Recently the Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo shared a newspaper article on Twitter about an 11-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador who was...

Sanders, Warren and the art of media distraction

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If you follow politics regularly, you have reason to be angry about something every day. Trump deliberately provokes liberal outrage constantly with petty and...

Misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic

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The Trump years have been a long, bad LSD trip directed by David Lynch. Then COVID-19 arrived and we feel like lonely figures in...