Opinion

Avoid Amazon’s ‘Cyber Monday’ and buy local

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It’s “Cyber Monday” — get out there and buy stuff! But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this gimmicky shop-shop-shop day lures us...

The other epidemic we must fight is white supremacy

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Twenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder...

Where does inequality come from?

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The vast inequality that’s rending our society is not a natural, inevitable or accidental phenomenon — it’s caused intentionally by policy decisions that corporate...

Letters: Aug. 31, 2023

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A DOUBLE ENDORSEMENT I am excited about the mayoral race this year because for the first time in our city’s history, we will be electing...

The real Safer Boulder

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By Brooke Harrison, PhD and Leslie Chandler, Safer Boulder members Who is Safer Boulder? Safer Boulder is a nonpartisan grass-roots organization committed to supporting public...

Tech execs say U.S. is failing them

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Last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to ...

Letters: May 28, 2020

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Xcel’s risky overture In this time of pandemic, no one wants to take unnecessary risks. We are all hoping that as we navigate this crisis,...

The free-enterprise mirage of Sheldon Adelson

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According to the self-aggrandizing mythology of America’s right-wing rich, Sheldon Adelson is one of society’s “producers,” not one of those morally inferior “moochers” who’re always looking for government handouts...

The good ship Goldman sets sail for Singapore

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Goldman Sachs is making news again, though it’s doing its damnedest to keep it quiet and to suppress any outbreak of political outrage from either the public or Washington...

Letters 5/13/21

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Polis must sign SB 21-200 Gov. Polis ran and won on a platform of 100% renewables and strong climate action. However, his recent threat to...

China’s new cyber totalitarianism

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Human Rights Watch has released a report on human rights abuses in the world’s largest totalitarian state — the People’s Republic of China. And...

How (and why) to keep the Postal Service public

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A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee! But... pssssst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...