Opinion
Letters: Jan. 5, 2023
Junie Joseph responds
On the first day of the new year, my resolution was tested.
As a public servant, my new year’s resolution is that we...
Trumpist spy and smear op hiding in Wyoming
The Whine and Cheesy Mussolini is a sick joke, but the war on democracy isn’t over. Trump may fade away but the far right...
Honoring our first responders
The Sunshine Canyon Fire was nowhere near as big a disaster as the Marshal Fire, but it could have been. Thanks to the immediate...
Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays
The call and response was loud.
“What’s disgusting?”
“Union busting!”
On a chilly Saturday evening on Dec. 17, some 40 boisterous demonstrators outside Ash’Kara restaurant at 1043...
German coup plotters borrow from QAnon, Jan. 6
On Dec. 7, some 3,000 German police officers and special forces raided 150 locations in 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as in...
Wildlife watching has been getting a free ride
There’s a new initiative in Wyoming that’s changing the face of wildlife conservation funding, and it’s already seen huge success in its first year.
It’s...
DACA and the politics of cruelty
It wasn’t long ago that we awoke to images and stories of families separated at the border, of migrant children locked into dirty, crowded,...
Letters: Dec. 8, 2022
CU hampers struggle against climate change
With regards to CU’s Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, I applaud the university for bringing in the...
‘Medicare Advantage’ plans are stealth rip-offs
We are bombarded with countless TV commercials by private insurance companies claiming their “Medicare Advantage” plans are much better and more affordable than traditional...
When no home is affordable, where do you live?
It’s a common story: Candace McNatt of Durango, in southern Colorado, kept losing bidding wars to buy a house. She finally settled on a...
Letters: Dec. 1, 2022
Nicole Speer for Mayor Pro Tem
On Dec. 1, Boulder City Council will be appointing its Mayor Pro Tem. Every year a new council member...
Progressives outperform and democracy gets a reprieve
The apocalypse has been averted in the midterms. There was a fragile, informal, anti-fascist united front from Noam Chomsky to Liz Cheney. Joe Biden...
