Opinion

In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture...

Three Guatemalans waited ’til dusk to make their move. Evading security cameras in the remote expanse along the U.S. border, they slipped illicitly into...

Valmont is a health risk...

Recently someone in Iran or Turkey had an insight: Just as war is too important to be left to the generals, peace activism is too important to be left to the pacifists. As a result, Islamists around the Middle East are getting in touch with their inner peace ...

I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2...

I don’t think so, but Cargill Inc. is doing its damndest to get away with its version of the old admonition that eating your cake today means not having it tomorrow. Cargill, the $2.3 billion-a-year food conglomerate, is a huge producer and user of food ingredients ...

(Re: “People of the Year: Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont,” cover story, Dec. 27.) The People of the Year award brought tears to my eyes, because this was truly a community effort, led by, but transcending, those mentioned in the article. I am overjoyed that ...

A frequent refrain of gun control freaks is “Why does anyone need a gun?” Good question. I’ll get to it in a minute...

  It`s pretty much settled Democratic Party theology that the Tea Party movement consists of little more than racist, angry white male knuckle draggers. Inconveniently, the stereotype is wrong...

Double-dippin’ Joe is back in the news. Double-dip is not some soda jerk working in an ice cream shop, but that’s not too far off. He’s a state legislator working in Texas to jerk taxpayers around for his own financial gain...

Perhaps you’ve been wondering...

Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days — quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of Corporate America...