Opinion
Ethics and congress critters
Do you — or anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order to do your job ethically...
America’s good food movement
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels...
GMOs: Boulder County’s November surprise
Boulder is full of Democrats — Ds outnumber Rs two-to-one — so the county’s election results didn’t exactly come as a bolt from the blue...
Let workers vote on CEO’s pay
One difference between top executives and worker bees is that those at the top can lower the pay of those down below, while simultaneously raising their own pay. If you wonder what’s causing America’s rapidly-widening income gap, there it is...
The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers
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...
A history of atrocities against American Indians
When Christopher Columbus and his men landed in the New World, he described in his log how the friendly Arawak Indians ran to greet them and offered food, water and gifts: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the ...
Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy
A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport of waterboarding: “Impeach Bush,” it urged, “Torture Cheney...
Driving to ban drilling
About 150 people turned up at the Plaza Hotel’s Conference Center in Longmont last Monday to try to browbeat the Boulder County commissioners into banning oil and gas drilling in Boulder County. Chances are most of them drove to the meeting. In cars fueled by ...
LETTERS | Week of November 13
Correction: The Avery IPA festival was listed in “Choose your festival” (Beer tour, Nov. 6) as occurring Saturday, April 8. That event was Saturday, November 8. Danish misses the point on GMOs...
State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor
Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...
Friendship City Project builds peace one piece at a time
The threat of “isolationism” looms over America, according to prominent politicians and pundits. Supposedly Americans don’t want to have anything to do with the rest of the world...
The real Halloween scaries of 2014
If you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door— just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year...
