Opinion
The people’s fight for open government
A major battle plays out daily in Colorado as some of our elected and appointed officials — all of whom took a solemn oath to...
Letters 12/19/19
An imaginary dialogue with President POTUS
Q: POTUS, Have you abused the office of president for your personal advantage?
POTUS: I have...
Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai
OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...
Letters 12/12
Google-eyed
Biodynamically, as monoliths in the outbacks of Boulder, IBM can be likened to a hidden and somewhat forgotten prairie dog town, NCAR an eagle-eyed...
The Battle in Seattle 20 years on
Twenty years ago, activists gave us an adrenaline rush. Tens of thousands of people flooded downtown Seattle, challenging the global economic order and yelling...
Letters: 12/5/19
Population doesn’t drive poverty
Gary Swing wrote, “More people means more widespread poverty” (Re: Letters, Nov. 21, 2019), which seems intuitively obvious — but it’s...
Another year, another record and COP25
Another year, another record.
That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...
What about our farmers?
Earlier this year, in the midst of a trade war with China, President Donald Trump announced a $16 billion agriculture bailout, telling Americans, via...
Letters: 11/28/19
On limiting growth
In response to Charlie Danaher’s Nov. 14 letter (Re: “Build on open space?”) about building on open space to make Boulder more...
Why Medicare for All is the only answer
Under our current patchwork health care system, the United States spends many times more than other rich nations on health care administration, pharmaceuticals and...
Letters: 11/21/19
Kudos to Terrapin
Regarding the latest column by “Seymour”(Re: “Can the marijuana industry lead the way on a living wage?” Weed Between the Lines, Nov....
AOC thinks white supremacy is behind climate change…
A couple weeks ago Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) claimed that climate change is linked to, wait for it, white supremacy.
She also claimed...
