Opinion
A curse, a blessing and a good food movement
In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture...
COPOUT 21
The United Nations is going to hold a big climate conference in Paris starting next Monday (and droning on until December 11) during which the world is really gonna get a handle on this global warming thing, by golly...
Food manipulators trying to deceive voters
An old adage says, “Never buy a pig in a poke.” But what about a poke hidden in a pig...
Letters | Nice rake
Correction: An Oct. 25 photo caption with the story “50 years of skiing Colorado” in Winter Scene misidentified the skier alongside Vail co-founder Pete Seibert as Earl Eaton. The identity of that skier is unknown...
High spirits at the top
If you want to know how the economy is doing, don’t bother checking the Dow Jones Average or tracking the unemployment numbers...
NSA and DHS defend us against sinister website
It’s a scary world out there, with global terrorists plotting to kill us...
The rich worry about you
You’ll be comforted to know that the rich are concerned about you. Not concerned about your joblessness, lack of health care or anything else about your economic condition. No, no — it’s your psychological state of mind that has them worried. In particular, they are ...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
Seeing China from the new World Trade Center
You can knock us Americans down, but you can’t keep us down...
‘Double-S.O.B.s’ keep making a killing
It’s true that America’s working stiffs are mostly stuck in the muck of depression these days, spinning their economic wheels with low wages that can’t even keep pace with inflation. Still, though, there are some good news stories about some who’re doing well — such ...
Another corporate path for buying our governmet
boulderweekly.com/highroad Like the five-man majority of Supreme Court justices, perhaps you’ve been worried sick over the possibility that corporations just don’t have enough power over our government. If so, let me soothe your fevered brow with a report ...