Opinion
Corporations are playing with our food — and our heads
From kitchen tables worldwide you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the same refrain: “Stop playing with your food.”
Children...
Battling the forces of inequality
Inequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few...
Letters 9/24: On fracking and air quality, and more
The politics of hiding
The air quality in Longmont is poor primarily due to fracking. The American Lung Association has given the area an “F”...
Opportunity zones: Who benefits?
The 2017 tax bill provides for the creation of “Opportunity Zones” (OZs) — economically distressed communities where as a result of investment in said...
Paying for Perry-the- Pretender’s presidential run
My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...
Letters: 1/4/18
Trickle down
Let’s call it Trickle Me Once, Trickle Me Twice. The Trumpublican tax “reform” is a simple reaffirmation of Ronald Reagan’s supply-side, trickle down...
Letters: May 7, 2020
Council’s accessibility issue
Boulder City Council’s recent special meeting, in which they voted on a city-wide mask mandate, left out 8.6% of the population —...
If Trump is so great, why is his approval rating so...
Apparently President Trump wonders why he’s getting the lowest job-approval ratings from the public in modern presidential history. Maybe he should actually look at...
Four questions for the former boss of the Wells Fargo Gang
Some stories of corporate villainy make me throw up my hands in astonishment. But this one makes me literally throw up.
The sorry saga of...
Trump’s ‘tax holiday:’ Boon or boondoggle?
Good news, folks — our new president says he’s planning a “tax holiday” for you! Well... not directly for you. Trump’s trillion-dollar whopper of...
