Opinion
Fighting solves everything?
There is a rising wave of far right ultra-nationalist movements around the world. We’ve found that America is just as vulnerable as any other...
What if we made voting fun?
The shameful truth about America’s democratic process is that it’s become so un-democratic that they don’t want you to vote.
By “they” I mean...
Letters: 10/11/18
Supporting Sonya Jaquez Lewis
We are writing to endorse Sonya Jaquez Lewis as Colorado Representative for House District 12, Lafayette, Louisville and Longmont.
During her...
Dems should remember guys vote too
Following the Kavanaugh confirmation, a lot of progressive pundits and Washington swampies started wondering out loud if the newly energized Republican base would stay...
My Willmeng dilemma
It’s more a situation than a dilemma really. When it comes to Cliff Willmeng’s candidacy for Boulder County Commissioner as the Green Party candidate,...
Why are Republicans so quiet about their chief economic accomplishment?
Listen... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just...
Don’t frack so close to me
Coloradans will vote on a ballot initiative in November that requires new oil and gas projects to be set back at least 2,500 feet...
Letters: 10/4/18
On Kavanaugh
Honesty requires astute scrutiny of anyone who would aspire to hold a high position. Can dishonest people apply such scrutiny? We have difficulty...
Beware the one-party autocracy
The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....
Putting traumatized immigrant children out of sight
In June, our immigrant-bashing president ordered an end to his own warped policy of forcibly tearing terrified migrant children from the arms of their...
Letters: 9/27/18
Yes on Prop 112
Initiative 97 has been accepted onto the fall election ballot as Proposition 112, requiring all new Colorado oil and gas development...
CU should expand in Louisville, not on South Boulder Creek
There’s a much better place for the University of Colorado Boulder to build its putative academic village than in the mined-out gravel pit at...
