Opinion

Signed, sealed, deliver, your views: Oct. 6, 2022

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Vote ‘yes’ on even-year elections I support moving city council elections to even years. Voter participation is a passion of mine. In my first election...

Letters: Dec. 1, 2022

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Nicole Speer for Mayor Pro Tem  On Dec. 1, Boulder City Council will be appointing its Mayor Pro Tem. Every year a new council member...

Can democracy survive if political violence is normalized?

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When White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, she declined to offer any comment, saying...

Letters: 9/26/19

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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...

Letters: 4/5/18

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Republican-lite Dems Today’s Democratic Party has distilled into Republican-lite. And it’s not tasting nice. This party is no longer the party of anti-war, anti-Wall Street, pro-environment,...

Bernie and Biden vs. Trumpists in Brazil

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I am writing this a few days before the election and feeling anxious. This may sound strange, but a look at the recent election...

Is gun machismo destabilizing the US with paranoia and murder?

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The pandemic inspired a gun-buying surge. Americans purchased approximately 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022, according to The Trace, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news...

Polis’ TPP stance insults critics, including his peers

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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 “...

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...

Letters 3/31/22

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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...

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: 4/25/19

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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...