Opinion
‘Illegal aliens’ crush the U.S.
(Re: “No man’s land,” cover story, Dec. 3.) Your article on students who are illegal aliens (no, I’m not going to use the euphemism “undocumented immigrants”) was another example of one-sided, emotional coverage of this issue without an objective analysis of the ...
Letters: June 18, 2020
Improve oil/gas regs
Amid the current public health crisis and evidence that air pollution increases vulnerability to respiratory viruses, it is now more important than...
Why Boulder Weekly is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president
If there is anything more perplexing to me than people who plan to vote for Donald Trump at the merciful end of this interminable...
Letters: Jan. 2, 2020
Tesla factory is no miracle
Today I read Paul Danish’s opinion piece “Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai” (Re: Danish Plan, Dec. 19, 2019) and...
The Donald better start feeling the Bern
Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...
Opportunity zones: Who benefits?
The 2017 tax bill provides for the creation of “Opportunity Zones” (OZs) — economically distressed communities where as a result of investment in said...
Repeal the Patriot Act
It’s back. The Patriot Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans...
Bosses gone berserk
The sky is falling! The end times are upon us! It’s all over for America! And it’s all because of you — you, the execrable voters...
Jerry Garcia’s 70th
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart ... I’ll always be with you...
‘Lies, damn lies, and statistics’
An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” Now, however, there’s an even-higher category of lies:...
Deception, the shared value of both parties
There’s a downside to being the editor of a newspaper. It seems like every political organization in the state — including front groups for both major parties — feels compelled to send me its 10 favorite press releases every single day including Sundays and holidays...











