Opinion
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...
It’s time to stop persecuting Julian Assange
As Americans, we should be angry and disgusted that our government, and now the Biden administration, has been engaged in the persecution of Wikileaks...
House gaslighting panel and Trump-Russia mysteries
The “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is a grotesque, Orwellian joke. Created by the U.S. House Republican majority, it will...
Letters: Feb. 2, 2023
Nuclear power is not carbon free
Nuclear power is not carbon free (Writers on the Range, “The ‘energy gap’ nobody wants to tussle with,” Jan....
Letters: Jan. 26, 2023
Praise for Dave Anderson
Thanks, Dave ! I suspect you had to be a historian, or anyway teach U.S. history at some level, in some...
Hand-crafted
A few years ago, just before my retirement, I knew I had achieved true “elder” status on the faculty when I announced, just as I...
Atmospheric rivers endanger the West
Moab, Utah, gets just eight inches of rain per year, yet rainwater flooded John Weisheit’s basement last summer. Extremes are common in a desert:...
Letters: Jan. 19, 2023
Rethink city leadership
For the current majority on the City Council, addressing “quality of life” issues appears to apply not to residents and neighborhoods, but...
Fake history of Civil War fuels MAGA
At the end of the 1950s, the organizers of the planned four-year-long official centennial celebration of the Civil War decided to avoid mentioning slavery...
Boulder’s police shouldn’t pick their own oversight
In November 2020, the City of Boulder established a Police Oversight Panel after a series of incidents in which Boulder police officers used excessive...
Letters: Jan. 12, 2023
CORRECTION: In last week’s news story, “A cloud overhead” (Jan. 5, 2023), we incorrectly identified the victims of the fatal home explosion in Frederick...
The ‘energy gap’ nobody wants to tussle with
Many Western states have declared they will achieve all-renewable electrical goals in just two decades. Call me naïve, but haven’t energy experts predicted that...
