Opinion
Another crank out to save the children from themselves
Dr. Tim Farnum, a Denver anesthesiologist and father of five, has come up with an exciting new way to “save the children” from a...
Beware the one-party autocracy
The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....
Lessons from Iran
I can no longer sit here silent about what I have been observing happening in our nation the past few years and what I observed...
The joke of ‘corporate governance’
Wall Streeters are all atwitter about the comeuppance of Jamie Dimon, the haughty CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Last year, poor Jamie presided over a $6 billion loss by the bank’s chief investment office, so he’s now had his own pay cut in half, knocking him down to $11.5 ...
Free market fundamentalism and COVID-19
The world turns upside down a couple times a day. As I write this, President Trump has caught COVID-19 and is benefiting from “socialized...
Letters | Value of independent media
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 ...
Letters | Rep. Jared Polis: ‘Sooner or later, the bills must...
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 ...
Don’t trade pennies for your planet
There is an old political joke in my business in which a reporter who doesn’t much care for a particular candidate shouts out at a press conference, “Do you still beat your wife?” The candidate, who of course has never done such a despicable thing, quickly responds ...
Progressives divided over county commissioner and sheriff races
You might have noticed that the Boulder County ballot for the Democratic primary has only two contested races. As I was trying to figure...
A costly inconvenient truth
Here’s an inconvenient little truth that keeps getting lost in the shuffle when local activists start hyper-ventillating about fracking: If you want to ban fracking, you may end up paying through the nose...
Letters: May 18, 2023
IMPROVE OUR TRANSPORTATION
I am a junior in high school and live in Boulder County. I, as well as many people I know, want to...
Why take an ‘off-ramp’ to nowhere?
In recent months our community has focused on whether or not Boulder should keep its municipal electric option. Voters will decide the issue this...