Opinion
Fake populist GOP promises to attack labor
Does the media tend to portray Donald Trump as a tribune of ordinary folks and Joe Biden as an establishment elitist? That is what...
Letters: 10/3/19
People want fairness
I noticed the brief letter to the editor commenting on tax fairness and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). (Re: “Whose side...
Labor upsurge promotes democracy and prosperity
We had “Hot Labor Summer” across the country, and working-class discontent continues to smolder. Health care employees, flight attendants, pilots, television and film writers...
The mendacity of GMO purveyors
Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity...
Letters 12/19/19
An imaginary dialogue with President POTUS
Q: POTUS, Have you abused the office of president for your personal advantage?
POTUS: I have...
Letters: 8/2/18
The Post is dead
The Denver Post died. Write the epitaph; send the obit (but not to the Post which will charge several $K!) Yes,...
Why a 70-percent tax rate on the superrich would be good...
Once upon a time, there was a place where the prevailing ethic of the very richest people was that monetary self-indulgence was tacky and...
The ‘them’ in ‘us versus them’
On the July 20 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore made an ominous prediction. He said, “I...
How bad public policy happens
If you inject a stream of raw ignorance into a vat of gaseous arrogance, then jolt the mixture with 1,000 megawatts of malevolence —...
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...
