Opinion
Letters: 4/19/18
Second Amendment does not guarantee blanket gun ownership
Here’s what Americans need to know about gun-control and mass shootings: First, despite Paul Danish’s claims that...
Middle East meltdown
The illegal airstrikes by the United States, Britain and France seem to be more of a publicity stunt to demonstrate the moral virtue of...
Boulder County needs an authentic choice for County Commissioner
Heading into the 2018 elections, Boulder County faces two divergent futures — either extending the status quo with a dangerous game of insider politics,...
Letters: 4/12/18
A humble suggestion
On April 5, I, and I’m sure many of you, watched the Boulder City Council host a public comment meeting in regards...
Three ways City Council’s gun ban will make Boulder less safe
The common theme that ran through the testimony of the 30 people who spoke in favor of Boulder’s proposed assault rifle ban last week...
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...
Letters: 4/5/18
Republican-lite Dems
Today’s Democratic Party has distilled into Republican-lite. And it’s not tasting nice.
This party is no longer the party of anti-war, anti-Wall Street, pro-environment,...
Moving left
The Intercept said it was “a remarkable display of grassroots power.” In These Times said it was “the most radical development yet” in the...
Could you live on ‘psychic income’?
Today’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s innovation geniuses.
But, innovation for what purpose? After all,...
Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three...
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing...
Students demand action
On March 21, CU-Boulder Students Demand Action (CU-SDA) held our first public meeting, hosting 85 members of the CU-Boulder and greater BVSD community in...
