Opinion

Letters l Danish and his cave

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Corrections: In the March 22 story “Act legalizes cottage chefs,” the figure reported as the cap for small producers was incorrectly reported as $100,000. The cap is actually $5,000 in net revenues...

Letters: Nov. 10, 2022

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Correction: In Best of Boulder East County (Oct. 27, 2022), we incorrectly labeled Native Roots as the winner of the CBD category in the...

Can the Davids influence the Goliaths?

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Commercial giants, such as Amazon, Walmart, Tyson Foods frequently make the news for high salaries and soaring stock valuations garnered by top management and...

Letters 1/14: Coal plants, elections and more

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Demand early coal plant retirement  In November, the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) ruled that several coal and gas plants must be retired no...

Ditches are a vanishing paradise

Annette Choszczyk lives in rural western Colorado these days, but when she was a kid, the Highline Canal in Denver was her summer paradise. “To...

Congressional critters get cozy with lobbyists

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A corporate lobbyist recently admitted to the New York Times: “Everybody is embarrassed about it. Although not so embarrassed that they don’t do it...

Can a robot do your job?

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With corporations socking away massive profits, and with the labor market fairly tight, why are worker’s wages still stuck at miserly and even poverty...

How to make billboards uglier

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Okay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they garishly loom over us,...

The nonviolent history of American independence

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Independence Day is commemorated with fireworks and flag-waving, gun salutes and military parades... however, one of our nation’s founding fathers, John Adams, wrote, “A...

Amendment 71 is a power grab by the corporate and political...

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Amendment 71, otherwise known as “Raise the Bar,” is a question that will be on your Colorado ballot that you will receive later this...

Cain’s manager inhales

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A lot of politicos, left and right, seem mystified by an ad produced by Herman Cain, the former pizza CEO who — to their amazement and bemusement — is leading in most of the recent polls for the Republican nomination for president...

Boulder’s latest green dreams

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The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...