Opinion
Letters 7.15.21
Toward the future
President Biden’s American Jobs Plan shows the type of leadership and initiative to take responsibility our country needs, while creating jobs and...
The unnatural disasters pushing farmers off the land
As a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but you have to start with a large fortune.”
Farmers tend...
Letters: 2/13/2020
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...
Letters: June 22, 2023
LONGMONT FARMERS MARKET FTW
I really enjoyed reading your article “Sibling rivalry” (Nibbles, June 15, 2023). I agree that the Longmont Farmers Market is a...
See how they run!
Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate Agriculture Committee worked overtime to turn its back on the people and the protection given them by the Colorado...
I fought for our country. Now NFL players are kneeling for...
I’m a veteran of the U.S. Army. So it may come as a surprise that the day I read about NFL players kneeling during...
Letters 4/7/22
Definitions first, please
Thanks to Mark Fearer for addressing the current dire situation for renters in Boulder. Rents have been rising dramatically along with housing...
Letters: 7/7/16
Portland: a poor model to follow
As citizens in a representative democracy, we expect the people we elect to be looking out for our best...
Letters: 10/18/18
On Dyer’s ‘Willmeng Dilemma’
As a Democratic Party precinct leader in eastern Boulder County I have the answer to Joel Dyer’s “Willmeng dilemma” (Re: Dyertimes,...
Robot farmers — bull, bull, bull, bull!
How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen... Angus?
Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle, but Angus, the 1,000-pound “farmer...
Letters 7/14/22
Ghost Riders
It’s almost 7 a.m. on Sunday and I’m stopped at a red light at 95th and Dillion Road in Louisville with seven other...
The Polis/Hickenlooper fracking compromise; thanks, but no thanks
Remember the old comedy skit wherein a well-meaning fellow decides he wants to do a good deed by helping an elderly woman cross a busy street? He eventually hauls her kicking and screaming safely through the traffic to the other side only to have the old lady kick ...