Opinion
The biggest bank heist you never heard about
boulderweekly.com/highroad Has your banker stopped by to thank you yet? Thanks are due, of course, for your share of the $700 billion bailout that we taxpayers provided for the giant banks after their greedy and reckless behavior imploded our nation’s financial ...
The legalized immorality of Big Pharma
Al Capone, the infamous mob boss and bootlegger in Chicagoland during the 1920s, always maintained that he was just a businessman, saying the only difference between him and others was that the law criminalized his business, while legalizing the criminality of ...
CU’s misguided 4/20 approach
CU has an interesting new strategy for dealing with the campus’s annual 4/20 rally and pot inhalation this year...
Some nasty unintended consequences of Prop 112
Back in the early 1970s someone asked Colorado’s then-Senator Gordon Allott if he would favor moving the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant because it...
End the fighting now!
War is hell. It doesn’t matter where the fighting is—Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia, Libya, Ukraine or elsewhere—suffering, death and destruction are sure to follow....
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...
Shifting the focus of human rights in Boulder
Boulder has long been a leader in the area of human rights and social justice reform. Our journey began more than 40 years ago...
Flagging the lies of Big Oil’s frackers on the 4th of...
Big Oil’s frigging frackers are wrapping their shameless profiteering in our flag...
Trump destroyed the Rojava project
When Turkey invaded Syria, there was almost universal condemnation across the political spectrum. But the most unique protesters are the anarchists all over the...
