Opinion
Amid Ohio train disaster, labor and environmentalists need to unite
After the toxic train disaster in Ohio, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white and it’s politically conservative. That shouldn’t...
GOP Ultra-Maga Love of Authoritarian Hungary
There is a controversy among Republican leaders about publicly declaring what the GOP would do if it won back Congress and the presidency.
The GOP...
Juneteenth: past, present and future
How do we know who we are without knowing where we come from? It is imperative that we not start our African-American story with...
Clinging to privilege
On Saturday, March 6, hundreds of CU Boulder students played part in a maskless, bacchanal spring celebration in the midst of a pandemic that...
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...
How Trumpers learned to love Myanmar’s fascist coup
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution that censured the fascist military coup in Myanmar (or Burma) by a 398-14 vote....
Designing for affordability
I recently read the opinion piece about “Welcoming more racial diversity through affordable housing” by Shane Czarnecki (Re: Guest Column, Dec. 24, 2020), and I...
Iris for all
Gary Sprung, Michael Le Desma and Kurt NordbackOn behalf of Community Cycles
In his op-ed, (“Street Wise”, Nov. 30) Richard Kiefer opined that the best...
Our library needs sustainable, stable, reliable funding
We all know that Pearl Street and the Flatirons are icons of our city. These locations serve as a welcoming pad for thousands of...
Aug. 13 letters: Occupancy limits, noise pollution and more
Let people have a say in occupancy limits
We are a young family living together — a sister, her husband and a brother — who...
Open space development isn’t a solution for inequity
Timothy Thomas’ “opinion” in the October 7, 2021 issue of Boulder Weekly (“Open Space, CU South and civil rights: A first step towards ‘Just...
Patriotism on life support
Warning: I wrote this at 4 a.m. while feeling pretty angry and cynical, so read on at your own peril.
I really do love my country,...
