Opinion
Letters | Farewell to Uncensored
(Re: “-30-,” Uncensored, Aug. 30.) I’m sitting here wondering just when you creative, political women in Boulder are gonna quit breakin’ my damn heart ... puhleeze...
Nixon comes back as a Democrat
Harvey and I were breaking out the Doritos when there was a knock on the door...
Letters | An uphill oil/gas battle
It is refreshing to know that there are still newspapers that will expose what governments and corporations do not want exposed. I applaud the Boulder Weekly for their May 2 article “Longmont-area farmer struggles to access evidence for oil and gas fine hearing.” I ...
Tilling our public treasury
Some aspects of American agriculture are quite odd. For example, to meet a farmer these days, there’s no need for you to venture out to the hinterland — because thousands of them actually are city slickers...
Presidential candidates talk inequality (sort of)
At last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class...
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 ...
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...
Imagining the ‘unimaginable’
Last week the quiet town of Waseca, Minn. narrowly avoided becoming “one more in a long list of school shootings” (I will come back to this language of the CNN report). A boy, 17 years old, had plotted to kill his family and bomb the town’s junior and senior high ...
Look out, BP’s doing it again!
boulderweekly.com/highroad Ok, people, nature needs us to focus. All of us who love polar bears, whales, seabirds and other wildlife should put our minds together to send an urgent telepathic message to the animals in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Our message ...
Danish omits climate facts
(Re: “Climategate,” Danish Plan, Dec. 3.) That Paul Danish finds “corrupt science” in the “Climategate” e-mails says less about how science is actually done and more about his own willingness to distort and omit facts...
