Opinion
Letters | Fight to protect dispensaries
Fight to protect dispensaries (Re: “Seed-to-sale surveillance,” cover story, June 2.) Hopefully, everyone who saw the barcode on the picture of a cannabis leaf on the front of the Boulder Weekly realized that something has gone terribly wrong in Colorado. The purpose...
Offshore corporate havens come onshore
From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make ...
Obama should talk to Douglas Bruce
Since President Barack Obama seems clueless on how to go about getting government spending and debt under control, he ought to consult someone who’s done it. No, not Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich or Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels...
Letters | Corporations vs. people
Correction: A May 19 story, “We the corporations,” incorrectly reported the number of signatures that have been collected by the Move to Amend initiative. More than 111,700 people have signed the petition...
What’s inside Big Oil’s head?
As one politician bluntly said of Washington’s annual tax giveaway to massively profitable oil corporations, “We don’t need incentives to the oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.” That was no lefty talking — it was George W. Bush...
A better time, a better hero
And now, batting fourth for the Twins, playing left field, No. 3, HARMON KILLEBREW...
Letters | Deli is a good neighbor
Correction: A May 12 story, “Ned residents think sustainability” incorrectly listed the date of Nederland’s Envision 2020 event. It will be held on June 4...
Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut
Coal is a hydrocarbon that, to the profound annoyance of a lot of people, sustains civilization as we know it. It’s mainly used to generate electricity, and nearly half the electricity used in the U.S. comes from coal-fired power plants. Another 20 percent comes from...
A morally untenable corporate system
This will seem like a fairy tale now, but not so long ago, it was actually possible for CEO pay to constitute “an embarrassment of riches...
Keeping score on Exxon
Now, let’s check today’s sports scores: 4, 10.7 and 21-and-a-half...