Opinion
How can we stop banksters from robbing us?
In an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel/I see lots of funny men/Some’ll rob you...
An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner
I read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United...
Letters 7/7/22
Defining ‘Criminalization of Homelessness’
As I find myself agreeing with the term ‘Criminalization of Homelessness,’ I wanted to explain the term, given that an LTE...
Bezos buys a big piece of power
An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse...
Could the plague bring reform to Congress?
The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...
A Congress of comics: Laugh ’til it hurts
And now, Dr. Hightower offers this advice for improving your mental health: Don’t fume about the GOP’s lunatic effort to kill health care reform — just laugh at their farcical show...
The man who sold Mars
The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk.
A couple months ago Musk, the founder...
Baghdad by the Rockies loses its charm
As Enrico Fermi once remarked, “Where is everybody?” According to the latest estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 the City of...
The Donald better start feeling the Bern
Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...
Wall Street gets giddy over the urge to merge
Uh-oh. You always have to worry when you hear that there’s a new “air of giddiness on Wall Street...
Don’t take the bait
It was a nearly packed house Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Longmont City Council chambers as citizens who believe that local communities should have the final say over fracking in their neighborhoods turned up in good numbers...
