Opinion
Bitten by the cobra effect
On March 23, during one of his daily reelection campaign rallies, aka Coronavirus Task Force press briefings, Donald Trump stated, “We can’t have the...
Letters: 7/26/18
To: Jared Polis; Re: Democratic leadership
Recently I received a mass letter from your office concerning your work as a congressman to help senior citizens...
Biden’s populism and the stupid debt ceiling
In March 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders had a rough debate in a sealed CNN studio without a live audience to avoid contagion...
Dissecting the political party landscape
There’s a surging populist progressive insurgency of Elizabeth Warren-type Democratic candidates all over the country, according to John Nichols in the latest issue of The Nation. But not in Colorado. Our politics are sometimes described as moderate, but actually ...
Moving left
The Intercept said it was “a remarkable display of grassroots power.” In These Times said it was “the most radical development yet” in the...
Dirty money and the coronavirus
Money makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it.
Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS...
Ludlow, unions and politics
In 2012, the right-wing Washington Times reported that “union bashing has been a unifying theme at this year’s Republican National Convention, as few topics have generated louder, longer and more robust cheers and applause during keynote speeches...
Why Nicaraguan kids aren’t fleeing
While many kids from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras flee to the United States, few children from neighboring Nicaragua do. Nicaragua is poor like those nations, but it lacks what experts consider to be the main cause for the migration: high crime and violence. ...
Cops in the schools, gun control and race
A week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association called for immediately assigning armed police officers to every school in the country. It also called on Congress to appropriate the money to pay for doing so...
Letters | A leguminous error
Just wanted to point out an incorrect statement in the article, “Quinoa Conundrum,” in the Feb. 28 issue...
When a skunk goes after your garden
Skunks love autumn as our backyard gardens fill up with ripe vegetables. But in my northern New Mexico corn patch, that meant a determined...
