Opinion
Letters | Fight to protect dispensaries
Fight to protect dispensaries (Re: “Seed-to-sale surveillance,” cover story, June 2.) Hopefully, everyone who saw the barcode on the picture of a cannabis leaf on the front of the Boulder Weekly realized that something has gone terribly wrong in Colorado. The purpose...
Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates
National brand-name food conglomerates are coming a cropper over California’s Proposition 37. Actually, it’s a double cropper...
Debt buyers bury hard-hit consumers in lies
Whenever a corporation issues a statement declaring that it is committed to “treating consumers fairly and with respect,” chances are it’s not...
Letters | Do not black out ballot bar codes
I am writing to address your editorial in this week’s Boulder Weekly concerning bar codes on ballots. (“For the record, I will be voting in secret,” DyerTimes, Sept. 27.) I have been working as a volunteer election processor for the Boulder County office for the last...
A typical massacre in Aurora
In at least one way, the Aurora movie massacre was pretty typical: The perpetrator was the only guy in the room with a gun...
What to do about the mosque near Ground Zero
Do the Islamist raisins with legs who want to build a 13-story mosque a stone’s throw from the late World Trade Center in New York City have a constitutional right to do so? Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they do. If you think they don’t, what part of the First...
Battling the forces of inequality
Inequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few...
Letters | Crooked cops
The story entitled “The Chair and the Camera” (cover story, Jan. 17) brought to me a sense of deja vu after reading Boulder County Jail spokesperson Jeff Goetz’s defense of injuring and brutalizing citizens in his care. I encountered the same defensive pablum in an ...
Get a whiff of ‘synthetic biology’
It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers...