Opinion
Will the City of Boulder suppress our right to vote?
Can you imagine if President Trump or the Attorney General tried to change the election rules in the middle of an election season? Can...
Letters: July 9, 2020
On the fracking moratorium
Our elected officers have an inherent duty to protect our quality of life. Water is life. On Tuesday, July 14 at...
Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” —Yogi Berra
Back in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek...
Black lives, the pandemic and unions
The gruesome and public extra-judicial murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop sparked a gigantic wave of protests, which surprised everyone. This is...
Letters: July 2, 2020
Thin blue line flag divides us
The time has arrived to call out display of the thin blue line flag. I see one every day....
A modest proposal for settling accounts with America’s latter-day Red Guards
It was one of those war stories that if it wasn’t true, it should have been.
I first heard it in the 1960s during a...
Letters: June 25, 2020
Harber for Regent
Have we ever had a candidate for CU Regent with the lifetime of community commitment Aaron Harber has demonstrated? Neither of his...
Police reform and the rebirth of hope
Multi-racial crowds of people are rallying across the country in the middle of a pandemic against police violence.
The number of white people demonstrating is...
Forcing hikers to pay to grow more trout and deer is...
Though I am not a resident of Colorado, I have become aware of a recent development that should not only alarm Coloradans but all...
Letters: June 18, 2020
Improve oil/gas regs
Amid the current public health crisis and evidence that air pollution increases vulnerability to respiratory viruses, it is now more important than...
The other epidemic we must fight is white supremacy
Twenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder...
So you want to get rid of the cops? Here are...
So you want to get rid of the police, huh?
So then what?
Who are you going to call — what are you going to do...
