Opinion
Trump’s victory and the price of cars
When I first saw the headline on strategy maven Edward Luttwak’s piece in the Times Literary Supplement — “Why The Trump Dynasty Will Last...
Adios, Amazon
Amazon’s notorious attempt to squeeze $3 billion in subsidies from New York taxpayers had two very positive results: One, it shoved these immoral bribery...
Why would anyone celebrate the ‘joy’ of war?
War is hell.
Unless, of course, you happen to be a global corporate peddler of rockets, drones, bombs and all the other hellish weaponry of...
Letters | Nice rake
Correction: An Oct. 25 photo caption with the story “50 years of skiing Colorado” in Winter Scene misidentified the skier alongside Vail co-founder Pete Seibert as Earl Eaton. The identity of that skier is unknown...
Do tenants have a right to a habitable home? Yes, but…
The most common problem for tenants by far is not getting their deposit back—but that subject will have to wait for another column.
Probably the...
Gagging on ag-gag laws
Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys and other food animals...
Loving our neighbors as ourselves
Rich Lopez and I come from different worlds.
I’m white, he’s Hispanic. I live in downtown Littleton, and he lives off of Federal. I have...
Fast food chains stealing from low-wage workers
No matter how small the haul is, a thief is a thief, right? If a poverty-wage fast-food worker sneaks out a couple of burgers to take home to the kids, the bosses yell: “Thief!” But what do you call it when the bosses steal from those same workers? How about ...
Takeaways from the election
When a political puck named Dick Tuck lost a California senate election in 1966, he said: “The people have spoken. The bastards.” ...
Starting at the grassroots
Many on the Left approach the coming year with trepidation but also some hope. The Democratic victories in November were encouraging and the election...
Letters: 11/16/17
Democrats need to step up
After reading the opinions of Paul Danish and George Newell in last week’s paper, I was reminded of two sayings:...
Funding social security without raising taxes
This year’s budget battles have at least produced two points of clarity...