Opinion

Help cure Sallie Mae’s sugar addiction

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Sallie Mae is not one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is filled with sugar, but it comes from you and me, thanks to a longtime sweetheart deal she has from the federal government...

Letters | Value of independent media

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Kudos to Boulder Weekly for embodying Gandhi’s Satyagraha, “insistence on truth.” Without BW we wouldn’t have learned this summer that DA Stan Garnett and City Attorney Tom Carr both lied to disguise how they covered for council members who don’t make mandatory ...

LETTERS

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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...

The Children’s Crusades, then and now

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It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation. Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...

Democratic autopsy

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It is odd that an autopsy should need to be done for the Democratic Party in an election year that saw them make gains...

Letters: 6/14/18

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Voting for Joe Neguse For 12 years I served on the CU Board of Regents, including two years as Chair. Six of those years I...

LETTERS | Week of Feb. 13

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Corrections: In a Feb. 6 story, “Two of hearts,” the name of Elizabeth Baron was misspelled. And a Jan. 16 Tidbite mischaracterized a celebrity chef series at the Indian Peaks Bar and Grill in Lafayette: The series features the food of the celebrity chefs, not the ...

Letters: 9/6/18

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Nationwide prison strike Prisoners nationwide are on strike and many are fasting. This is a 19-day strike ending on Sept. 9. It is on schedule...

Longmont fracking ban struck down, what now?

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It was quite a read. The further I delved into the Colorado Supreme Court’s decisions to overturn Longmont’s ban on fracking and Fort Collins’...

A little less corporate political corruption

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Come on, Obama, do it!  Stand up, stand tall, stand firm! Yes, you can! The president is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which unleashes ...

Explaining Congressional morality

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It’s always interesting to see Congress in action, though “interesting” can also be appalling. For example, what a sight it is to watch Republican leaders as they gleefully try to repeal Obamacare, the law extending health care coverage to all Americans. As they vote...

Is more technology the answer to too much technology?

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We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets....