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












