Opinion

I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...

Near my home in Austin, Texas, there’s an old refurbished motel with a keep-it-real attitude that is expressed right on its iconic marquee: “No additives, No preservatives, Corporate-free since 1938...

I think it was in 1995 that I first suggested a fix to Boulder’s affordable housing problem in the pages of Boulder Weekly. As I recall, the circumstances were a lot like today; rents and real estate prices were outrageously high for the region and the Boulder ...

National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...

Correction: The article “The aftermath” (Dec. 5, Buzz) incorrectly stated that 211 structures and 175 homes in Lyons took flood damage. The correct number given to BW was 211 total structures, including 175 homes...

Don’t forget autistic adults Your article “Autism 101” in the June 17 edition was very good in explaining the difficulties faced by families with autistic children...

Imagine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in banks to capture images...

If you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door— just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year...

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert points out that political statements and even political facts these days don’t have to be true — all they need, Colbert insists, is some element of “truthiness...

Someone spank these kids...

According to a widespread urban legend, the Vietnam anti-war movement was mostly composed of privileged college kids and the war was most enthusiastically supported by blue collar workers. That’s the story perpetuated in countless TV shows, movies, press reports and ...

A nation’s border is nothing in and of itself. It’s just an inanimate line that has no philosophy, personality, feelings or meaning — beyond what...