Opinion
Amendment B saves schools, counties and neighborhoods from funding freefall
When Colorado lawmakers reconvene in 2021, they face a projected $1 billion dollar pandemic-driven shortfall in our state budget. On top of that, our...
Local Democrats: Let’s work together and think big
There’s no question Democrats could have done much better in our recent national election. Given the mismanagement and corruption in Washington, many of us...
’Tis the Season to defeat pipelines
The recent failure to issue the final permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers made international news as...
Syria and progressives
Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica — and some are cheering...
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...
Rent relief in St. Paul and the Polis betrayal
Two very different stories have big implications for renters.
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: 12/22/16
An open letter to Boulder City Council, especially Matt Applebaum
I recently shared a video of a homeless woman at a Capitol rally with...
Letters: 5/2/19
Little public support
The Jefferson Parkway is a proposed toll road to help complete the Denver Metropolitan beltway. This project will disrupt nearby communities and...
Letters: 11/7/19
Austin deserved better
Regarding John Lendorff’s article, “The final stage” about Jeff Austin (Re: Buzz, Oct. 31, 2019), if the goal was to bring together...
Governor Brown and ‘the new abnormal’
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...
The collapse of compassion
Anne Harper and her family, along with their 14 or so neighbors, have a serious problem. The place they care about most, their home, is about to be changed forever and not in a good way. They are trying desperately to save their small rural community, which the ...











