Opinion
Affordable housing the community can support
Like much of the nation, Boulder is experiencing housing affordability challenges. Though Boulder has implemented a variety of affordable housing policies, we continue to...
Marches and vigils are not going to bring about the change...
Yet another school shooting. A call for vigils and marches, and letter-writing campaigns. While I agree kids have skin in the game, (always have...
Letters 9/3: Trump and wolves
Quantum leap needed
Historically and culturally, the U.S. is a nation sustained by economic exploitation, violence and white supremacy, all conducted under a veil of...
The Indian Peaks Traverse as a solution
Imagine stepping out of your front door, grabbing your hiking poles, putting your binoculars around your neck, lacing up your running shoes, or putting...
Letters: 6/21/18
On nuclear power
Mr. Danish, we already have more than enough radioactive waste for which we have no safe solution (Re: “The cost of killing...
U.S. General salutes a military “hero”
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a particular military hero he wants to honor...
Biden and a progressive future
Hope just means another world is possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope. — Rebecca Solnit
For many...
Punishing the innocent, enriching the guilty
A recent email to me pretty well sums up the big budget hullaballoo being pushed by tea party Republicans. As the writer put it: “Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401ks, took ...
Have we accidentally prevented another ice age?
Sometimes you learn the darnedest things if you read a news story all the way to the end...
What the commissioners can (and can’t) do about fracking
Last Sunday’s Daily Camera contained an op-ed piece signed by all three Boulder County Commissioners explaining to their constituents, yet again, why they can’t...
Supreme Court gives McCain-Feingold a thumpin’
The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...












