Opinion
Guess who’s serving the student loan industry?
Question: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos.
She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education...
Oliver North, the NRA’s new poster boy
Oliver North recently became the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). The organization’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre, said North “is a legendary warrior for...
The meek reality behind Trump’s pose as a Bull Moose Populist
It’s been pointed out that Donnie Trump has unusually small hands... but who cares?
What’s truly alarming are his unusually small policy ideas. Draining...
Letters: 5/24/18
Keep Dougherty as DA
Boulder County has been my home for my entire life. I am an attorney who is honored to serve the public...
The cost of killing nuclear power
”For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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t’s been obvious for a...
Immigration courthouse arrests undermine justice
Since President Trump took office last year, immigration enforcement officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have dramatically...
Koch industries doesn’t just lobby government, it’s becoming the government
The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns over the majority will of the people has always been...
It’s not the answer that’s blowing in the wind
There’s an old saying that history will repeat itself, which is why I encourage folks to visit the Colorado History Museum and check out...
Letters: 5/17/18
On Alden Global Capital and local media
The callousness of Alden Global Capital for their bottom line has been a blow to journalism. As a subscriber...
Climate change, the GOP and Trump
The Republican Party is “the most dangerous organization in world history,” argues Noam Chomsky.
The GOP controls the entire national government — executive, legislative and...
Smedley Darlington Butler and why he’s important
Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history, but consider the “Wall Street Putsch” of 1933.
Never heard of...
Letters: 5/10/18
The world is watching the muni
I have spent roughly three months in Boulder now. As a Dutch researcher I have been trying to...
