Opinion
The big score in this year’s Super Bowl
For me, the most significant statistic coming out of this year’s Super Bowl was not the 31-25 score in the Green Bay Packers’ hard-fought victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nor was it the $1.3 billion cost of the new, monstrously huge football palace built by ...
How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public Postal Service
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won’t even buy a cup of coffee. But, psst... here’s an amazing half-dollar bargain for...
All eyes are on us
Innovative initiatives like Boulder County’s 1B and 1C, on the upcoming November elections, are leading the way toward the creation of a sustainable energy future, and in doing so, have piqued a lot of interest worldwide. Bond Issue 1B is an extension of ClimateSmart...
How the feds encourage Wall Street banksterism
Hey, stop complaining that our government coddles Wall Street’s big, money-grubbing banks!
Sure, they went belly-up and crashed our economy with their greed. And, yes,...
Obama learns to love fracking
President Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University Tuesday, June 25, in which he outlined his vision for saving the country, world and civilization as we know it from the horrors of global warming...
Letters | Pot is dangerous
Correction: An In Case You Missed It item and an Eco-Brief in the April 19 issue incorrectly stated that an Earth Day event was being held on Norlin Quad to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Environmental Center. The center celebrated its 40th anniversary in ...
Fear, despair and gun profiteering
The week before the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre, Daniel Defense posted a photograph on Facebook and Twitter, showing a little boy sitting cross-legged,...
Media monopoly… or democracy?
Monopolies are not merely un-American, they’re virulently anti-American, suppressing our fundamental values of fairness and opportunity for all.
So, our people have instinctively rebelled at...
Letters 7.29.21
Turning point U.S.-Cuba relations
Dave Anderson is wrong (re: The Anderson Files, “The hidden history of U.S.-Cuban relationship,” July 22). The turning point in U.S.-Cuba...
Letters: 9/28/17
Inconvenient Lifestyle
I saw the new Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power and was moved to write. Mr. Gore’s movie was very...
Tech execs say U.S. is failing them
Last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to ...









