Opinion
Letters: 4/18/19
On sex ed
Let’s be honest, as an immature young adult, sexual education class was probably pretty close to your idea of hell. As a...
Scapegoating immigrants
Recently the Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo shared a newspaper article on Twitter about an 11-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador who was...
Is more technology the answer to too much technology?
We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets.
Musk...
Letters: 4/11/19
On student debt
Growing up, I was privileged to know that higher education would always be an option for me and I had a support...
Rachel Carson and Rocky Flats
In 2018, The Library of America published Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Carson is famous for bringing to the...
Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union
The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...
Who are the serial killers of America’s newspapers?
In a recent two-panel cartoon, a character holds a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says:...
Letters: 4/4/19
On EPA budget cuts
I am a part of a generation that has begun to feel the impacts of climate change and fear the consequences...
Back to the labor future
Strikes have been breaking out all over the country. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, some 485,000 workers were involved in strikes...
Trumponomics: Batman… or Dracula?
Even if a White House report is just a pack of lies, it still can reveal some awful truths.
Take the recent forecast by the...
Letters: 3/28/19
Venezuela on the verge of war
Over the past two weeks, Boulder Weekly has done a fine service in providing readers with a long column...
After Mueller – how Trump might get even
Now that the two-year, $25 million Mueller investigation has determined that the Trump-Russian collusion narrative was, at best, a bunch of delusional bullshit, the...
