Opinion
Letters | A miss on municipalization
The BW article “Municipalization minefield” (cover story, Feb. 28) does an excellent job highlighting the economic complexities surrounding the City’s effort to create a municipally owned electric utility, but it lacks in offering a holistic perspective...
How to steal an election without really trying
Step one: Get a group of buddies together, make it the kind of people who’d enjoy traveling First Class together, or maybe sharing a...
Letters: 4/11/19
On student debt
Growing up, I was privileged to know that higher education would always be an option for me and I had a support...
Guess who’s pushing for prison reform?
Too many people are behind bars that don’t belong there,” declared a group demanding major reforms to America’s throw-’em-all-in-jail, mass imprisonment policies...
Citigroup becomes its own self-serving lawmaker
Perhaps you recall from high school civics class that neat flow chart showing the beautiful democratic process for passing a law through Congress...
Trump’s trial run for a fascist state
A few weeks ago, Trump tweeted that he will quickly deport millions of undocumented immigrants from this country. “They will be removed as fast...
Rick Perry’s ‘truthiness’
Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert points out that political statements and even political facts these days don’t have to be true — all they need, Colbert insists, is some element of “truthiness...
Letters: 11/22/18
Pardon your turkey
While President Trump is pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, every one of us can exercise that same presidential power by choosing a...
‘Medicare Advantage’ plans are stealth rip-offs
We are bombarded with countless TV commercials by private insurance companies claiming their “Medicare Advantage” plans are much better and more affordable than traditional...
Aetna lifts the national standard for ‘competitive wages’
Business schools preach a strict, anti-social doctrine of corporate management that comes down to this: CEOs must be idiots...










