Opinion
Big Coal buys access to 4th graders
If some predator was stalking fourth graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools...
Letters | Marijuana growers should pay more for electricity
(“Where the grass isn’t greener,” Boulderganic, March 28.) These high-use customers drive the need for increased supply, which all customers have to pay for. A gas electric plant costs in the neighborhood of $80 million. Should we all have to pay increased rates, or ...
Future, our future: think about it
The other day, while listening to the radio, I heard an ad from the gas industry that said gas provides energy whenever you need it, even when the sun is not shining — inaccurately implying that the energy from solar panels cannot be used at night. The ad ended with ...
Hug the children, bill their countries
Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...
The real stink in Flint, Michigan’s water scandal
The governor and his agency heads who caused the sudden appearance of lead and other toxics in the water that the families of Flint...
It’s past time for Polis to decide on fast track for...
Some people just can’t make up their minds. Where should I eat? Blue or red? The Voice or Dancing with the Stars? Obviously, indecision on the part of most people doesn’t have much significance for the rest of us, but that’s not true of everyone. When Congressman ...
Yee-haw! Perry for president
The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...
Kissing bankers’ butts
Oh them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investigator of banker pay, that top executives of 17 financial giants ...
Help Elizabeth Warren fight the madness
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...







