Opinion

Correction: In our roundup of foodrelated events last week, we said the Boulder Arts & Jazz Fest was a Downtown Boulder event [Tidbites, July 2]. It was actually produced by State of the Art Promotions. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused...

An old country saying notes: “You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure.” However, President Obama’s department of agriculture intends for us to give it a try...

In most state legislatures today, bizarre is not unusual, and off-the-wall has become the political center...

Why do airline executives hate their customers? Not so very long ago, airlines boasted about flying “the friendly skies,” but that happy slogan has now been perverted into flying “the abusive skies...

We have a tendency to address symptoms rather than root causes of problems. When we identify causes, we often focus on one cause when there are multiple causes, and we focus on causes that fit our preconceived ideas, and, all too often, our biases, which ...

Correction: In a recent Buzzlead [“A logical explanation,’ Sept 24], Boulder Weekly ran an inverted pentagram as a graphic accompanying the story. The symbol in no way represents the values or beliefs of the Spirits of Colorado Paranormal Convention. We apologize for...

Treat pot like tobacco...

From Enron to Wall Street, a big cause of America’s major financial collapses in the past decade has been simple deceit. Finaglers used secret offshore accounts and dummy subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere to avoid regulatory scrutiny and to make ...

(Re: “Copenhagen was a success — for the Chinese,” Danish Plan, Dec. 31.) Paul Danish’s implication that the Copenhagen accord, such as it is, is unfairly advantageous to China and other developing countries ignores the simple and overwhelming fact that China’s per ...

Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions-of-dollars each year...

The giants of food manufacturing are very concerned about you. They fear you could come down with a terrible plague called “consumer confusion” — and these selfless corporate entities are going all out to save you from it...

Jim Hightower comments on Colorado's shackling bill. Jim Hightower on Colorado Shackling Bill by boulderweekly