Opinion
What’s behind this photo of corporate groundbreaking?
A newspaper photograph last June portrayed three guys in suits and ties shoveling dirt. They were Donald Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and the chairman...
Shoving America back to the Great Recession
The core economic problem we’re facing today is that both unemployment and underemployment are rampant, stifling any hope for real recovery and threatening the very survival of our essential middle class...
Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections
It’s our civic duty to vote, right? Well that depends on who you are. The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don’t want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their ...
Worth a fortune
About a decade ago, I cracked open a fortune cookie after lunch at Tsing Tao with the Boulder Weekly editorial staff.
“You have found good...
Insider tips profit biggest hedge funds
The high-rollers who run Wall Street’s top hedge funds essentially gamble with other people’s money, betting billions of dollars on such stuff as whether XYZ Corporation’s third-quarter profits will be one point lower than forecast. Doing this, they assert, is ...
Iran and the math of the final countdown
How close is Iran to getting the bomb? A lot closer than you might think and a lot closer than the Obama administration has let on. The truth is hiding in plain sight. It’s in the arithmetic of uranium enrichment. The arithmetic shows that the Iranian nuclear ...
City’s cleanup of teahouse site actually deserves kudos
At first I thought it might just be the holiday season or perhaps the sense of optimism that tends to wash over me with the start of each new year. Whatever it was, I initially assumed it was tainting my perspective and clogging my journalistic BS filter. What I ...
Letters: March 2, 2023
‘Boulder’ Weekly?
I am dismayed to see that Boulder Weekly’s new format has left the music calendar reduced from a relatively comprehensive list to a...
Letters | Prairie dogs are pests
Correction: The June 21 story “The wisdom of Wilco” should have said that the group’s first album, A.M., was an L.P., not an E.P...
What does ‘Trumponomics’ actually amount to?
Donnie Trump — what a maverick! What a shake-’em-up outsider! What an anti-establishment fighter for working stiffs!
Oh, and don’t forget this: What a phony!
The...
It’s time to vaccinate the world
President Joe Biden’s commitment to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses (sufficient to fully vaccinate 250 million people) was great news but, with billions...