Opinion

Letters: 12/7/17

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Against the public lands giveaway This week, in referring to his recent decision to shrink national monuments in Utah and open them up to...

Letters: 9/12/19

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Guns have recreational merit This past summer I accompanied my 10-year-old grandson to summer camp at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch near Elbert, Colorado, where my...

Aetna lifts the national standard for ‘competitive wages’

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Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...

Letters 4/21/22

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Wrong Way Encouraging use of E-85 is a wrong way to go.  Even changing E-10 to E-15 is a poor idea. E-85 is 85% ethanol...

What kind of country punishes Good Samaritans?

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Let us now contemplate the morality tale of the Good Samaritan. Not the one in the New Testament, but the one out in the...

Dissecting the political party landscape

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There’s a surging populist progressive insurgency of Elizabeth Warren-type Democratic candidates all over the country, according to John Nichols in the latest issue of The Nation. But not in Colorado. Our politics are sometimes described as moderate, but actually ...

The New American Aristocracy

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Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People —...

Why Romney lost — and how to win next time

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Republicans have started a conversation on why they lost the election and on what they have to do to win the next one...

Letters: 12/28/17

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On the VA Regarding Veterans’ Affairs wait-list woes, VA health care scandals are going to happen again and again and again because government ownership of...

Who is George Soros, the right wing’s boogeyman?

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Many people heard about George Soros for the first time when he denounced George W. Bush’s “war on terror,” lies about Saddam Hussein being...

The Highroad

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The Highroad boulderweekly.com/highroad Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit...

Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut

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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...