Opinion
Orwell got it backwards
Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...
U.S. General salutes a military “hero”
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a particular military hero he wants to honor...
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates
National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...
Letters | Save poop — and water
Save poop — and water (Re: “Drying Times,” cover story, Feb. 23.) In millions of households across Colorado, people are defecating into water and flushing it all “away.” What a waste! Flush toilets are the rule, in spite of the gross misuse of water they cause. ...
This is not a drill
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t cause the problem but it has opened our eyes to the reality that our health care system is severely lacking...
A tomato tale that’s hard to stomach
"I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times...
Colorado Dems are in tough spot — they control everything
Democrats now control the Colorado House, Senate and governor’s mansion, and that will likely turn out to be a real nightmare for the establishment...
Letters 2/21/19
The Green New Deal: It’s about time
As a father, nothing makes me sadder or fills me with more dread than the dismal future of...
Is nothing sacred to frackers?
Such energy powers as BP, ExxonMobil, Halliburton and Koch Industries have gone crackers over fracking...
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...
Progressives divided over county commissioner and sheriff races
You might have noticed that the Boulder County ballot for the Democratic primary has only two contested races. As I was trying to figure...










