Opinion

Amid Ohio train disaster, labor and environmentalists need to unite

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After the toxic train disaster in Ohio, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white and it’s politically conservative. That shouldn’t...

Letters: 1/10/19

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In defense of Michaela Muijica-Steiner There are many things I would rather do with my time than respond to the self-congratulatory words of an old...

What hath BP found?

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On Jan. 10, 1901, roughnecks working on a 1,020-foot-deep oil well near Beaumont, Texas, were lowering the drill string back into their well when, without warning, the drilling mud began furiously bubbling back out of the hole. Alarmed, the crew ran for it. This ...

Letters: 10/11/18

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Supporting Sonya Jaquez Lewis We are writing to endorse Sonya Jaquez Lewis as Colorado Representative for House District 12, Lafayette, Louisville and Longmont. During her...

Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers

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Look out — the Kleptocrat Gang is loose on the land...

Why are we taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime?

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Do the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card...

Marches and vigils are not going to bring about the change...

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Yet another school shooting. A call for vigils and marches, and letter-writing campaigns. While I agree kids have skin in the game, (always have...

It’s just like the sanctuary city movement, only with live ammunition

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Be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. Good and hard. Remember the sanctuary city movement, the strategy the Resistance (or the Democratic...

Quarterbacking the gummy bear trick

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Kevin Sabet, the creep who once described himself as “the quarterback” of the anti-marijuana legalization movement, is the kind of guy who gives a...

Letters: 7/5/18

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Time for Mayor Berg to resign or be recalled Mayor Christine Berg has lost the privilege to represent the people of Lafayette. She should...

How Budweiser locks out free enterprise competitors

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The word “free” in “free enterprise” is not an adjective, it’s a verb — as in, let’s “free up” the enterprise of small businesspeople who’re locked out of the marketplace by monopoly power...

There’s a dragon with matches that’s loose on the town

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The current crisis is not the first time I have been tested in my life, nor will it be the last. For all of...