Opinion
On a positive note… mostly
Folks often ask me why we don’t report more “good news.” I usually fire back something along the lines of “nobody wants to read...
How vicious is the GOP’s war on the poor?
Generals plan wars, but battlefield commanders do the bloody work.
So, meet HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a quiet but bloodstained commandante in General Trump’s relentless...
War on fracking
Hands down easiest prediction for 2012: Boulder’s hyper-active activists will take time out from their busy schedule of sabotaging American food production to sabotage American oil and gas production...
Letters: June 18, 2020
Improve oil/gas regs
Amid the current public health crisis and evidence that air pollution increases vulnerability to respiratory viruses, it is now more important than...
What’s the cost of high living?
The rich aren’t merely different from you and me... they’re ridiculous!
The über-rich, I mean, the billionaire barons of Wall Street, who literally live above...
Letters: 4/14/16
Please sign this petition
Operators of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge want the Rocky Mountain Greenway — a trail for hiking, biking and horseback...
Letters: July 6, 2023
MESA SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA), a program of Mental Health Partners, has served the Boulder County community for over 50 years...
Boulder, Uber, Google and traffic
I have a modest proposal for dealing with Boulder’s traffic mess: outsource the problem to Google and Uber.
Boulder’s traffic mess is bad; the worst...
Letters 12/3: Gross Reservoir, Trump and more
To the County Commissioners, Re: Gross Reservoir
I am against the expansion of Gross Reservoir. It would require cutting down thousands of trees. Trucks and...
India Walton and the promise of democratic socialism
These days, Republican leaders are labeling most ideas or policies that Democrats advocate as “socialist.” This is a decades-old attack but it is losing...
