Opinion
Just Economics: Conservator not hegemon
How can the United States achieve lasting greatness? I claim that the best way of gaining really durable eminence is by dismantling our pernicious...
Tax cut madness
It’s difficult to exaggerate the significance of what the Republicans are trying to do with their grotesque and brazen tax scam. They are determined...
Letters: 11/14/19
Build on open space?
About a year ago I was attending a Boulder Chamber event in Glenn Miller Ballroom and was in a break-out session...
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 7/7/22
Defining ‘Criminalization of Homelessness’
As I find myself agreeing with the term ‘Criminalization of Homelessness,’ I wanted to explain the term, given that an LTE...
Letters: March 30, 2023
CAN YOU SAY ‘DIRTY HIPPIE’?
I have mixed feelings about BW’s cover story about advice from Boulder’s “meme queen,” particularly the response “Help, I’ve Fallen...
Letters 9/24: On fracking and air quality, and more
The politics of hiding
The air quality in Longmont is poor primarily due to fracking. The American Lung Association has given the area an “F”...
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 1/14: Coal plants, elections and more
Demand early coal plant retirement
In November, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) ruled that several coal and gas plants must be retired no...
Letters: Sept. 7, 2023
CHARETTE OR CHARADE?
I’m a neighbor who lives but a few hundred feet away from the Bohn Farm project, and I was shocked that you...
The devil is in the details
When he was on the campaign trail, Donald Trump denounced “free” trade agreements, promising something “much better” for working people than the North American...
You want it, you got it
Many Americans wanted big change this year. A majority of voters in a nationwide Election Day exit poll by Reuters/Ipsos agreed that “America needs...
