Opinion
Letters: 4/4/19
On EPA budget cuts
I am a part of a generation that has begun to feel the impacts of climate change and fear the consequences...
Letters 6.3.21
We are watching
As young leaders in Colorado, we have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. We’ve lived through increasingly brutal wildfires, which...
Letters: 10/12/17
Avoid ‘voter’s remorse’ on muni
Keep in mind this election season what we would lose if Boulder does not continue to work toward a municipal electric...
Letters: April 27, 2023
THE ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE
Let’s imagine a gun control paradise where the Second Amendment is repealed, and all privately owned guns are outlawed, and...
Time for Longmont voters to push back on disgusting ‘push polls’...
First off, let me just warn you that I’m pretty angry about what’s going on in Longmont’s city council races. I’m upset because I naively thought, or at least hoped, that as a community we had matured and moved beyond the kind of childish, unsophisticated politics ...
Scott Walker, Home Depot, Donnie Trump and the Supreme Court
In a mind-boggling trick, some magicians levitate themselves. But remember, the key word in “magic trick” — is trick.
Scott Walker, for example, is quite...
Letters 2/4: On elections and oil and gas
Colorado prioritizes oil and gas
Gov. Polis and most Colorado leaders continue to prioritize a bankrupt industry, responsible for 70% of Colorado’s greenhouse gas (GHG)...
The shame of climate-change deniers
Shame is that queasy feeling you get when you realize you’ve done something improper, ridiculous... or just flat-out contemptible. But it’s socially invaluable, for...
Letters: July 23, 2020
Trump can’t afford to lose in November
John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and President Trump’s national security advisor from 2018...
Letters: Aug. 10, 2023
‘OPPENHEIMER’ AND WITCH HUNTS
Upon leaving the theater after experiencing the movie Oppenheimer, I thought of two “standout” individuals from World War II who shortened...
A more perfect union
Current partisan politics frequently returns to questions and debates about the supreme law of the land — The Constitution — as it should, because...
A better time, a better hero
And now, batting fourth for the Twins, playing left field, No. 3, HARMON KILLEBREW...














