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Letters | Love Savage
Correction: The photo accompanying the April 18 cuisine review was improperly credited. It was taken by Rich Vossler of Denverdiscoveries.com...
Legalize marijuana
I’m writing about Robert Sharpe’s thoughtful letter, “Jail is not a pot deterrent” (Letters, Nov. 26). According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 44 percent of adults believe that pot is just as dangerous as, or more dangerous than, alcohol (http://tinyurl.com/lqmqqz). ...
Redeveloping 11th and Pearl
Karlin Real Estate, the company that bought the building at 11th and Pearl that once housed the newspaper that was once known as the Boulder Daily Camera (before it dropped “Boulder” and “Daily” from its name), recently presented its plans for the redevelopment of ...
Polis responds to his critics on trade authority
While Congress prepares to finalize action one way or the other on President Obama’s authority to negotiate trade agreements with other countries, there continues to be no shortage of “facts,” figures, and talking points. Unfortunately, much of this information is ...
It’s time to free students from higher-ed debt
In the 1960s, I attended the University of North Texas, a public school blessed with good teachers and an educational culture focused on enabling us students to become socially useful citizens. And it was affordable — with close-to-free tuition and a part-time job, I...
Texas natives tussle with foreign invaders
Turf wars can be the silliest of all scuffles, and no place does silly with more zeal than Texas...
Funding social security without raising taxes
This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...
Monsanto comes a cropper
boulderweekly.com/highroad As an old TV ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Monsanto corporation, however, still has not taken Mother’s advice. This giant chemical maker became a veritable Frankenstein in the 1990s, genetically engineering new ...
Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves
Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...
The president’s astonishing chutzpa
President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...
Letters | Thanks for Longmont piece
I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2...
Cain’s manager inhales
A lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president...










