Opinion

The pendulum swings

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A year after Trump was elected president, we finally have something to smile about. This month’s elections brought a tidal wave of victories for Democrats...

Letters 5/19/22

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Abortion care is essential health care It’s likely that neither my son nor I would be alive today had I not had access to abortion...

Municipal power is cheap in Longmont, but not Boulder

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Come November, Boulder voters will be asked whether they want to throw the city’s franchise with Xcel Energy under the bus and set up a municipal electric utility in its place. Voters will also be asked to double the city’s carbon tax (to 0.99 cent from 0.49 cent), ...

How a landmark Green New Deal victory was won

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With climate chaos accelerating and extreme weather disasters happening nearly every day, it’s easy to become depressed. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was a first...

Letters: Feb. 9, 2023

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Uniforms and guns at POP noms meeting This week I submitted a complaint against Boulder police officers who appeared at the Jan. 19 City Council...

Solidarity for All

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Slain activist Vivian Silver preached peace — not just pretty words — for Palestinians and Israelis

’Tis the Season to defeat pipelines

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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...

Rage, despair, hopelessness… and the election

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We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hammer  In the 1960s, black people demanded to...

Letters: Oct. 12, 2023

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Correction: Taishya Adams’ name was misspelled in Vote Guide (Oct. 5, 2023). Clarification: Our endorsement against Boulder Ballot Question 302 should have stated that if...

Beware the one-party autocracy

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The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....

Local events highlight youth leadership in mental health crisis

In recent weeks the mental health crisis devastating our nation’s youth has been getting much-needed attention from the local and national press. For young...

Fear, despair and gun profiteering

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The week before the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, Daniel Defense posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter, showing a little boy sitting cross-legged,...