Opinion
Be careful, Coach Prime — don’t get pimped by MAGA
Around the clock, commercial radio station KOA 850 AM pumps out what can only be considered racist, sexist, elitist and xenophobic white male supremacist...
The real Halloween scaries of 2014
If you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door— just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year...
Judy Bonds: A model citizen
Chances are that an art museum, symphony hall, university building or other public edifice in your area is emblazoned with the name of some prominent rich man. His name is up there in shiny brass, we’re told, because he’s a model citizen for all to emulate...
Letters | Show restraint in Libya
Correction: The March 17 cover story on the Longmont airport stated that there are two city council seats plus the mayor job up for election this November in Longmont. Actually, three council seats and the mayor position are opening up...
The rigged Rodale Institute deal
Shortly after the Boulder County Commissioners voted to ban GMO crops from Boulder County Open Space (in March 2016), it occurred to them that...
Letters: 12/22/16
An open letter to Boulder City Council, especially Matt Applebaum
I recently shared a video of a homeless woman at a Capitol rally with...
Causes of the symptoms in the news
We have a tendency to address symptoms rather than root causes of problems. When we identify causes, we often focus on one cause when there are multiple causes, and we focus on causes that fit our preconceived ideas, and, all too often, our biases, which ...
A morally untenable corporate system
This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...
Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’
In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...
Seeing China from the new World Trade Center
You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...
Letters: 1/16/20
NAFTA 2.0 better, but still bad
Congress recently passed the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement (aka NAFTA 2.0). Thanks to efforts by local, state and...









