Opinion
Paying for Perry-the- Pretender’s presidential run
My state’s gallivanting goober of a governor, Rick Perry, is back in the news, with yet another “oops” moment...
Hiding worker injuries
According to the latest safety reports, workplace injuries are on the decline in our country. Great! Only ... it’s untrue. Why? Because many burns, cuts, poisonings and other on-the-job injuries are deliberately hidden from America’s Occupational Safety and ...
Bosses gone berserk
The sky is falling! The end times are upon us! It’s all over for America! And it’s all because of you — you, the execrable voters...
The mendacity of GMO purveyors
Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity...
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...
Letters | Save poop — and water
Save poop — and water (Re: “Drying Times,” cover story, Feb. 23.) In millions of households across Colorado, people are defecating into water and flushing it all “away.” What a waste! Flush toilets are the rule, in spite of the gross misuse of water they cause. ...
Finger-pointing in the gun rights fight
Boulder writer Dan Baum planned to write a book on guns in America which would be “apolitical, nonpolemical cultural anthropology, played sometimes for laughs.” But his timing was bad. His book, Gun Guys: A Road Trip, was published in the middle of a volatile ...
Enough!
Dr. Mitchell Gershten of Paonia had a letter to the editor in the Daily Camera last Saturday certain to have set atwitter the heart of every oil company hater in Boulder County...
Letters | We could stop an ice age
I occasionally appreciate Paul Danish’s contrarian views, but sometimes they need to be answered — especially when the issue is something as important as climate breakdown...
Proud “Partners” corporatize our parks
While we Americans celebrate the 100th anniversary of our National Park Service, America’s socalled “leaders” are aggressively commercializing our parks, converting these jewels of the common good into just another corporate cash cow...
Socialists in the Senate!
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, known as the “White Maned Pontificator,” has recently been spewing a fountain of free-market dogma in the debate over health care reform...






