Opinion

Public messaging vs. internal practices

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In advertisements, Coors reaches out to women, Latinos and gays while the family behind the beer company gives millions of dollars to anti-choice and anti-immigrant organizations. That’s the conclusion of a lengthy investigative article by Zoe Greenberg and Brie Shea...

A corporate power grab is underway, so where’s the media?

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If you need a good, doable New Year’s resolution, try this: “I resolve to do my part this year to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership...

Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing

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Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day...

A 1,000-week conversation

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It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...

The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers

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We hear it all the time: “climate denier.” We spit the term like a swear word at the Koch brothers or countless Republican politicians. It’s a label we attach to oil and gas industry executives, coal barons and those who run our power generation plants. But what does...

How to make childbirth more painful

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Sometimes I come across an outrage so outrageous that I think: “Surely this can’t be. Someone has to be making this stuff up...

Why did Trump back off from his Mexican border tax?

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Often, when world powers pick fights with seemingly powerless countries, they learn that even small dogs have sharp teeth — as President Trump is...

Asylum seekers need compassion, not surveillance

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When President Biden released his budget on April 9, a little-known part of it hit very close to home for me. I recently accompanied...

Signed, sealed, deliver, your views: Oct. 6, 2022

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Vote ‘yes’ on even-year elections I support moving city council elections to even years. Voter participation is a passion of mine. In my first election...

Don’t trade pennies for your planet

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There is an old political joke in my business in which a reporter who doesn’t much care for a particular candidate shouts out at a press conference, “Do you still beat your wife?” The candidate, who of course has never done such a despicable thing, quickly responds ...

Help Elizabeth Warren fight the madness

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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. That was the title of a kooky 1960s movie, but an even kookier sequel could be made today starring the mad, mad, mad, mad Republican leaders of the U.S. House...

Economists agree with Bernie

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The popularity of Bernie Sanders marks “the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” according...