Opinion

Wrong Way Encouraging use of E-85 is a wrong way to go.  Even changing E-10 to E-15 is a poor idea. E-85 is 85% ethanol...

Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...

I’ll say this as delicately as I can: Anyone who thinks it’s patriotic to roll tanks down our National Mall on the Fourth of...

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), ...

There’s a surging populist progressive insurgency of Elizabeth Warren-type Democratic candidates all over the country, according to John Nichols in the latest issue of The Nation. But not in Colorado. Our politics are sometimes described as moderate, but actually ...

The anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations. According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by...

I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...

June 15, 2012, was one of the happiest days of my life. It’s the day I finally saw light at the end of the...

Polis ‘Smart Track’ Position an Insult...

On national park funding Colorado’s national parks are seeing record visitation, but unreliable funding over the years means their infrastructure desperately needs to be repaired. That’s...

Speak out for a better world Have we made progress since “the world turned upside down” in 1968? (Re: “The long shadow of 1968,” The...

Public education used to be, you know, public, as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all, paid for by all through school taxes...