Opinion

How can the United States achieve lasting greatness? I claim that the best way of gaining really durable eminence is by dismantling our pernicious...

A recent letter to the editor about my column (see The unrepentant tenant, “Rent control: Why or why not?”  March 24, 2022) raised some points...

Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn’t get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn’t factored in Glenn Beck...

Well, that didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) announced its intention to file lawsuits against Lafayette and Fort Collins over those cities’ election results regarding fracking. Once again, the oil and gas industry is ...

Random thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11...

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...

Boulder writer Dan Baum planned to write a book on guns in America which would be “apolitical, nonpolemical cultural anthropology, played sometimes for laughs.” But his timing was bad. His book, Gun Guys: A Road Trip, was published in the middle of a volatile ...

Colorado legislators and Colorado’s state pension fund — Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) — should be paying close attention to the fact that a...

Due process missing at Ryan Elementary and BVSD...

If the mayor of a fishing village decried shark attacks, and the headline in the next day’s paper read, “Mayor opposes fish,” you might think the paper had it in for him. That’s about where Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running for president, stood with the ...

The sponsors of Colorado Proposition 64, the ballot proposal that would legalize marijuana and regulate it like alcohol, think these are three of the best arguments for voting yes...

And now, batting fourth for the Twins, playing left field, No. 3, HARMON KILLEBREW...