Commentary

Boulder County Public Health Public Service Announcement: Coronavirus (COVID-19) & Social Distancing

March 13, 2020 Like 0 redtornado

SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA-donate now Update: As of Saturday, March 28th, the total number of COVID-19 cases has grown to over 100,000 in the United States, with an expectation of over 200,000 deaths to still come. As of Saturday,…

Online News

Impeachment

December 10, 2019 Like 1 Guest Contributor

Today, Congress finally unveiled Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. Finally. this process has a chance to become less about Trump and more about saving…

Online News

Why pass Gun Control Laws when the U.S. has so many guns already?

November 10, 2019 Like 0 redtornado

The question was asked why pass gun control when the country already has so many? On that note… What’s the point of ending slavery when the country already had slaves? Why stop the Prison Industrial Complex when we have so…

Commentary

Community Corner – Yates Wielded Forbidden Power

October 22, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The City of Boulder’s Charter, Article II, Section 13, describes the only power expressly withheld from council members; Bob Yates violated this rule blatantly and publicly. For such flouting of this express rule limiting council member powers, voters will have…

Environment

Acme pad highlights information gap between O&G workers and residents

October 2, 2019 Like 0 Guest Contributor

By Rachel Balkcom, Erie resident At a meeting a couple of weeks ago with Crestone Peak Resources about Acme, a 30-well project the company has proposed in the middle of my 35-year-old residential neighborhood, I spoke with environmental engineers, a…

Health

$Will the COGCC approve a fracking site the size of five Walmarts?$

Will the COGCC approve a fracking site the size of five Walmarts?

September 14, 2019 Like 3 redtornado

*Update 2/24/2020 It is our understanding that the COGCC has not yet approved this well site. This personal blog has a more current status of what is taking place with legal actions around Oil & Gas. Broomfield Concerned also reports…

Word from the Publisher

Opinion: Government Waste vs the Private Sector

July 26, 2019 Like 0 redtornado

Agreed there is waste at all levels of government. There is also tremendous waste in all levels of the private sector. Since most people work or have worked in their lifetime, we all can attest to waste on the job.…

Letter to the Editor

Op-Ed: “For the Religious Purposes of Indian Tribes” – Petition to U.S. Fish and Wildlife seeks to expand law to allow non-Indians to possess eagle feathers.

July 18, 2019 Like 0 editor

On April 30, 2019, the Service published a Request for Public Comments related to a Petition submitted by Pastor Robert Soto and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The Becket Fund- a conservative law firm best known for representing the…

Magazine

Community Corner: Inspiring Incarceration Bills Signed in Colorado’s 2019 Legislative Session

June 16, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

This past legislative session saw some truly inspired bills regarding incarceration make it through the process to become law in Colorado, to the betterment of us all.

Online News

Unnecessary Heroes, Martyrs to America’s Gun Fetish | #DeLaVacasDesk

May 8, 2019 Like 0 De La Vaca

These lost lives, Americans of all ages lost just this past few weeks, burnt up and crumpled and offered up like grotesque cannabalistic - emphasis on ballistic - incense to America's gods of domestic warfare: the NRA, Congress, 2Aers, and…