Opinion

Praise for Dave Anderson Thanks, Dave ! I suspect you had to be a historian, or anyway teach U.S. history at some level, in some...

Bicyclists for people Recently in Boulder Weekly, Gary Wockner submitted a guest opinion titled “Bicyclists Against Density,” (Re: Guest Column, Sept. 12, 2019). Rather than...

Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica  —  and some are cheering...

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 ...

It’s neither slander nor libel, Danish and Trump Paul Danish recently speculated that President Trump might be able to successfully bring slander or libel claims...

Since the beginning of this column in March, I’ve focused on rent control—then I pivoted, uncovering the broader history of tenant activism in Boulder....

There are several problems with Congressman Jared Polis’ rationalization for his (and Senator Bennet’s) vote last week supporting fast track and by extension the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) [Boulder Weekly, June 18]. Fast track, curiously renamed “...

In Colorado, farmers were required to enroll in a four-state program by March 1 if they want to get paid for fallowing their fields,...

NCAR FIRE probably beneficial  As long as no human structures are impacted and nobody gets injured, a fire like the NCAR fire is probably quite...

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...

A growing number of Americans are dissatisfied with both political parties and the quality of candidates, according to a recent poll by Pew Research. Nevertheless,...

For some reason California’s outgoing Governor Jerry Brown started his Nov. 11 press conference on the state’s wildfires by calling them “the new abnormal.” Why...