Opinion
Will dark money defeat progressive change?
“The one-sided class war of the last 40 years is becoming two-sided,” leftwing philosopher Noam Chomsky recently declared. He is encouraged by the many...
Letters 4/20/17
Would someone please answer this woman’s
question?
Hello Crestone Peaks,
Since October we have been renting out our farm to a small family, and are currently leasing...
Causes of the symptoms in the news
We have a tendency to address symptoms rather than root causes of problems. When we identify causes, we often focus on one cause when there are multiple causes, and we focus on causes that fit our preconceived ideas, and, all too often, our biases, which ...
This is not a drill
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t cause the problem but it has opened our eyes to the reality that our health care system is severely lacking...
Choosing terrain for activism
What if America had a parliamentary system? What if we got rid of the presidency and the Senate and turned the House of Representatives...
How to make childbirth more painful
Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...
Response: Trust in organic
At Aurora Organic Dairy, we care a great deal about organic agriculture, about the more than 650 dedicated men and women who call Aurora...
A 1,000-week conversation
It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...
Letters: 8/8/19
Side effects of illegal immigration
Boulder Weekly: I love your work but I have always disagreed with what I see as a take on illegal...
End municipalization secrecy
Let me start by saying I’m all for municipalization. I have supported the idea of forming a municipal electric utility in Boulder from the beginning. That said, I continue to be disappointed by the way that the City of Boulder conducts itself on this important issue...
Paul Ryan wants all of us to live in Kansas
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants his trickle-down tax “reform” passed this year. Speaking before
the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) annual convention recently, he said, ...












