Opinion
Putting ‘The People’ in a political platform
What if a political party’s platform actually stood for workaday people, rather than being a catalogue of far-out, right-wing nuttiness, or a batch of...
No water for fracking? No problem
One of the latest — and sillier — local whines against fracking is that it is a profligate consumer of water that takes 33,000 acre feet of the stuff permanently out of the state’s hydraulic cycle...
How dare D.C. demand fair wages from Walmart?
Want to see pure altruism in action? Go to Washington, D.C. — not to the marbled buildings of the federal government, but to the real city, where ordinary folks live...
Letters | Don’t forget autistic adults
Don’t forget autistic adults Your article “Autism 101” in the June 17 edition was very good in explaining the difficulties faced by families with autistic children...
Monsanto, miRagen response to last week’s BW ‘Muzzled by Monsanto story’
Much of your April 3 article (Muzzled by Monsanto) describes the scientific process which includes experts presenting data, other experts critiquing their methods and results, and the scientific community’s best minds challenging and defending the evidence and what ...
The twisted ethics of trade secrets
It`s time to enjoy another round of that sensational game show that’s so popular from coast to coast: “Twisted Ethics!” Today’s ethical conundrum involves chemical compounds marketed as everything from household cleaners to flame retardant fabrics. The question comes...
How hedge fund billionaires literally ‘check’ the people’s will
Donnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton...
The Enronization of presidential politics
In the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago, unregulated energy hucksters created an array of dummy financial funds so they could evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise the scams, the funds were given such names as Chewco and JEDI...
