America stands at a vital crossroads of self-definition

The MAGA rioters who stormed the Capitol and the Neo-Nazi Fascist Klansmen marching at a Trump rally in Charlottesville regarded themselves as patriotic revolutionaries acting under a romantic illusion that brute force was a realistic means to keep Donald Trump in the White House.

The real insurrectionists today are the authors and proponents of Project 2025 who recognize that the true power in capitalist America is money, even more so since the conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled that it had unlimited “free speech” power. Project 2025 is structured around a libertarian ethos of freedom from regulation, maximum profit and concentrated wealth that will radically alter the historical arc of American democracy. It has deep-pocket corporate and individual backers.

Donald Trump aspires to personal autocratic power, able to hire and fire as he sees fit, but at the forefront of Project 2025, he is largely a storefront manikin and entry-level drug to an authoritarian rule of wealth. JD Vance has had a few opening glitches, but with his manly white embrace of religious and family values, his roots in the Midwest and time spent in the tech world of Silicon Valley, he stands as a reliably malleable successor to lead the Project 2025 revolution. In this election, America stands at a crossroads of its self-definition.

— Robert Porath, Boulder

Do I own the airspace above my house?

I can have drones. Can I have them fly over you and film your activities in your yard?

This is the central issue in who owns the “air space” regarding the existence of the Boulder airport.

Zoning laws have become three-dimensional at the local level even though international military airspace concerns have been in place for a long time.

“Do you get to fly in my air space?” is the question.

But the freedom to fly has taken on a new dimension. When I asked for an inspection of my roof for hail damage, the insurance company sent out a drone. No issue of my right to privacy was ever discussed.

Do I own the airspace above my house? How far does it extend, if it exists? What about the noise? … or people’s ability to just drop stuff on me from above?

We need to have some control of our airspace. We need to be free to just watch the sunset in quiet while others want to experience the freedom to fly. But what about the drones?

What is the limit to the freedom to fly above each other?

— Michael Dille, Boulder