Opinion
Letters: 11/29/18
Correction: The Nov. 15 News story, “A return to legacy,” misstated the estimated lode of Bates Hunter Mine. It’s estimated worth is $2 billion....
The collapse of compassion
Anne Harper and her family, along with their 14 or so neighbors, have a serious problem. The place they care about most, their home, is about to be changed forever and not in a good way. They are trying desperately to save their small rural community, which the ...
Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers
Look out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land...
Corporate hoggishness run amuck
They´re back. Citigroup, Coca-Cola, IBM, Merck, and dozens of other major U.S. corporations are back in Washington — like hogs at the trough — demanding to be fed another tax boondoggle...
Banking marijuana requires an ‘act of Congress’
Despite bankers’ varied attitudes about legalizing marijuana, now that it is legal in Colorado, banks are supportive of government efforts to permit financial services for marijuana businesses. However, numerous obstacles prevent banks from serving marijuana ...
Don’t cry for Jamie Dimon, America
As CEO of JPMorgan Chase, this ruling mogul of Wall Street must now cope with the recently enacted financial reform bill, which imposes a host of new regulations meant to rein in the rip-offs, frauds and other excesses of Wall Street bankers...
Letters 6.3.21
We are watching
As young leaders in Colorado, we have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. We’ve lived through increasingly brutal wildfires, which...
Heartless no more
These are the words I wrote in November 2018 when I asked for your help to save the life of Victor, an undocumented immigrant...
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....
Letters 10/1: Online petitioning, COGCC and more
On online petitioning
Thanks for the great article discussing Boulder’s slow walk toward online petitioning (Re: News, “Advancing Democracy,” Sept. 24).Here are a few observations...
The student debt mess grew out of Reagan’s war on ‘intellectual...
It was a shock when the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 for student loan borrowers. Biden responded with...
Boulder Weekly Staff Hall of Fame
As the company’s founder and publisher, my passion for and commitment to the success of Boulder Weekly has been a double-edged sword that has...