Opinion
Democrats and race
In a major American city, the mayor closes 50 public schools in impoverished minority neighborhoods and tries to destroy the teachers’ union. Parents conduct a month-long hunger strike to keep their last neighborhood school open. The mayor closes many public health ...
Big shot banker proves big banks are too big
In April, Jamie Dimon — the swaggering chief of JPMorgan Chase — scoffed at critics who warned that his bank’s high-flying investment division was dangerously overextended and risking collapse: “A complete tempest in a teapot,” scoffed Dimon...
The sneak attack on Amendment 64
The drug war dead-enders and nanny-statists who want to recriminalize marijuana in Colorado think they have hit on a cunning new strategy to do the deed...
A ‘Yes’ on Boulder’s Ballot Issue 2A helps build a more...
To paraphrase an old expression: In this election, you can fill your potholes and invest in the arts.
This November, City of Boulder voters will have...
Yee-haw! Perry for president
The higher the monkey climbs, the more you see of its ugly side...
Advancing our right to trial by jury
boulderweekly.com/highroad One thing that gives me good cheer is the periodic eruption of legal common sense that provides a little more justice in our society. The latest advance comes from a state not known for progressive eruptions: Georgia. In 2005, the ...
Unrepentant Tenant
The Unrepentant Tenant last outlined tenant activism in Boulder through the 1970s, with the Boulder County Tenant’s Organization (BCTO) based on the CU campus...
Laugh, don’t fight
On April 15, a distinctly disturbing event took place in Berkeley, California. Several hundred proto-fascists gathered in a downtown park. They were armed and...
