Letters

(Re: “People of the Year: Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont,” cover story, Dec. 27.) The People of the Year award brought tears to my eyes, because this was truly a community effort, led by, but transcending, those mentioned in the article. I am overjoyed that ...

I represent Ms. Ashley Weber, the subject of Ms. Elizabeth Miller’s thoughtful article in the Boulder Weekly (“Between two laws,” Dec. 13). I was so affected by Ashley’s situation that I sought to represent her...

While making fun of Joel Dyer’s piece on fracking (“Can you hear us now?” DyerTimes, Dec. 6), Charlie Danaher offered zero data to refute Dyer’s predictions or rhetoric. I’m inclined to go with Dyer’s carefully researched points and dismiss Danaher’s dismissal...

A letter to the Boulder County commissioners: As a concerned citizen keeping close to the issue of fracking, I can tell you that if you think the public outcry has been bad thus far, it’s been nothing compared to what it will become if you give in to the oil and gas ...

(Re: “Can you hear us now?” DyerTimes, Dec. 6.) I was a part of the action at the Dec. 4 Boulder County commissioners meeting. Those of us who initiated the action did so because of the urgency and attention the issue of fracking in Boulder County needs. Citizens ...

I am writing in response to Dave Anderson’s commentary published by Boulder Weekly (“Washington must prioritize jobs, not cuts,” Nov. 22) as well as Anita Li’s letter (“The truth on Polis,” Nov. 29). What both Anderson and Li fail to understand is that living within ...

Dave Anderson’s commentary on the so-called “fiscal cliff” (“Washington must prioritize jobs, not cuts,” Nov. 22) injects sanity into the debate...

Corrections...

Boulder County as a whole needs to follow the example of Longmont and pass a ban on fracking throughout the entire county. Article 2, Section 3 of the Colorado Constitution states: “Section 3. Inalienable rights. All persons have certain natural, essential and ...

Correction: An Oct. 25 photo caption with the story “50 years of skiing Colorado” in Winter Scene misidentified the skier alongside Vail co-founder Pete Seibert as Earl Eaton. The identity of that skier is unknown...

Kudos to Boulder Weekly for embodying Gandhi’s Satyagraha, “insistence on truth.” Without BW we wouldn’t have learned this summer that DA Stan Garnett and City Attorney Tom Carr both lied to disguise how they covered for council members who don’t make mandatory ...

(Re: “Vote 2012,” cover story, Oct. 4.) You have finally made yourself useful by publishing your Vote Guide 2012. Now I know to vote the exact opposite way on every issue and candidate you socialists have endorsed...