Opinion

Letters 5/19/22

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Abortion care is essential health care It’s likely that neither my son nor I would be alive today had I not had access to abortion...

Why I am running for Congress

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My name is Cliff Willmeng and I am a dad, husband and a full-time registered nurse from Lafayette, Colorado. I am running for U.S....

Dilemma 2020

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Trump might be re-elected. He is highly unpopular but his Democratic opponent might end up being just as unpopular after a likely vicious campaign....

Rent control rallies and 1980s tenant battles

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The summer heat is not only breaking records (thank you, climate crisis) but also manifesting itself in the world of rent control and activism.  Two...

Letters: 5/5/16

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Open Letter to Boulder City Council, Boulder County Commissioners and Arvada City Council Dear Elected Officials: Please do not allow the Plutonium Superhighway (aka Rocky Mountain...

Letters: Gun violence, student loans and more

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A note about gun violence  In my sophomore year of high school, there was a school shooting at Freeman High School, in Spokane, Washington, just...

It’s time for Commissioners to show some backbone

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On Tuesday, March 16, the Open Space Advisory Committee voted 5-3 to recommend that certain GMOs be allowed to continue growing on Boulder County’s...

Commentary: It takes a village… of idiots

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Running this story on Facebook is not our way of whining about Boulder Weekly’s business model. Fortunately, we never made page views and unique visitors...

UMAS remains as important as ever as it turns 50

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Whenever the topic of civil rights is discussed, the conversation almost always revolves around relations between whites and African Americans. It is interesting that...

Good and bad COVID-19 news

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These days, people are searching the internet for good news. Journalists are searching for silver linings when writing about the COVID-19 pandemic. After all,...

The worker-owned model

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Faced with mounting economic and environmental crises driven by unrestrained capitalism, many people around the world are turning to cooperative enterprise as an answer to social ills. In America, 130 million are members of some kind of cooperative and 13 million ...

Trump’s war on workers

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Trump proclaims himself the savior of the screwed-over “forgotten men and women” of the working class. Every day, he hogs the media spotlight with...