Opinion

Despairing Johnstown workers and the election

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Anxiety, dread, fear. Almost 70% of Americans said the presidential election is a substantial source of stress, according to the American Psychological Association’s Stress...

Mitch’s minimum-wage glitch

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Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wanted to share his long-repressed feelings about a traumatic event. “It was,” Mitch confided, grim-faced, “the worst day of my political life...

Whitewashing Vietnam?

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Recently, the Pentagon announced it was launching a multi-million dollar decade-long 50th anniversary “commemoration” of the Vietnam war in “partnership” with more than 10,000 corporations and local groups which are to sponsor hometown events. Its website presents a ...

Sanders’ populist surge

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Not only have crowds been streaming into arenas all around the country to hear Bernie Sanders’ fact-studded speeches, but ordinary Americans have also been...

Letters | Blowing smoke

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Blowing smoke (Re: “Cain’s manager inhales,” Danish Plan, Nov. 3.) When Paul Danish refers to Herman Cain’s future search for “all sorts of unexpected and ignored constituencies” that, like the Smoker’s Block he’s presumably won over, will Cain be going after the ...

Referring to Kobe Bryant as a “rapist” is a technical foul

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My immediate response to the tragic death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was almost as shocking to me as the incident itself....

Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies

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Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...

Our mirror image of ISIS

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This election year has been so peculiar that it is easy to overlook some unusual events. At the United Nations, a prominent official lambasted a...

Open Space, CU South and civil rights: A first step toward...

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Dear Council Candidates, I thank you for having the courage and tenacity to run for Boulder City Council. The vast majority of you have received...

The real Safer Boulder

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By Brooke Harrison, PhD and Leslie Chandler, Safer Boulder members Who is Safer Boulder? Safer Boulder is a nonpartisan grass-roots organization committed to supporting public...

Hug the children, bill their countries

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Editor’s note: In this week’s editorial pages, columnist Paul Danish and BW editor Joel Dyer tackle the same subject: children illegally crossing the U.S./ Mexican border. As you may have guessed, they come at this growing immigration crisis from somewhat differing ...

Could you live on ‘psychic income’?

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Today’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s innovation geniuses. But, innovation for what purpose? After all,...