Opinion
Labor dispute may push shuttle drivers’ pay below poverty line
If you’ve had an early morning flight from DIA, you might have gotten a ride to the airport with SuperShuttle. Everything seemed normal. The driver came to your door and was helpful and friendly. What you didn’t know is that, for five years, the drivers have been in ...
How Budweiser locks out free enterprise competitors
The word “free” in “free enterprise” is not an adjective, it’s a verb — as in, let’s “free up” the enterprise of small businesspeople who’re locked out of the marketplace by monopoly power...
Beyond the brink
This was a bad week for our country. Like so many other times in the last couple of years, racism boiled to the top...
Amazon buys out Whole Foods: What’s it to us?
Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buy-out of Whole Foods Market is not only a win-win for both of them —...
Letters 9/24: On fracking and air quality, and more
The politics of hiding
The air quality in Longmont is poor primarily due to fracking. The American Lung Association has given the area an “F”...
Thanks to you
I thought Boulder Weekly was an important endeavor 25 years ago when it launched. And while I’m happy to say that I was right on...
Boulder’s police shouldn’t pick their own oversight
In November 2020, the City of Boulder established a Police Oversight Panel after a series of incidents in which Boulder police officers used excessive...
Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid the needy!
Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new president and Congress?
Regular folks in our country say...
Let’s join the Army!
Imagine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea — namely, converting communities to total renewable energy, complete recycling, and a culture of conservation to bring humankind’s carbon footprint into a sustainable balance with a healthy earth...
Aetna lifts the national standard for ‘competitive wages’
Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...
Monsanto’s World Food Farce
It was my privilege to go to Des Moines, Iowa, recently for a World Food Prize extravaganza recognizing Monsanto’s work against global hunger. But wait, Monsanto is not a hunger fighter, it’s a predatory proliferator of proprietary GMO seeds...











