Opinion
Why doesn’t Congress do what the people want and need?
If you wonder why Congress critters keep ignoring what the people want them to do — while doing things that people don’t want them...
Letters:P 2/25/16
Response to a nonsensical letter
I felt compelled to respond to the Feb. 11, 2016 letter from Michelle Kretzer of the PETA Foundation in Norfolk,...
Has the business community co-opted Boulder’s non-profits?
New commercial development in Boulder helps finance Affordable Housing (AH) through a charge called a linkage fee for each square foot of development. At...
Congress must restore refugee resettlement
In response to President Trump’s executive order on Jan. 27, Colorado resettlement agencies, local organizations, refugee leaders and community members urge Colorado’s congressional delegation...
Danish omits climate facts
(Re: “Climategate,” Danish Plan, Dec. 3.) That Paul Danish finds “corrupt science” in the “Climategate” e-mails says less about how science is actually done and more about his own willingness to distort and omit facts...
The mobsters of Wall Street
Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the ...
How will the great American social distancing experiment end?
How will America’s great social distancing experiment end? Just guessing, but I suspect toward the end of April, millions of Americans will say, in...
The Moving Finger writes: CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor...
Imagining the ‘unimaginable’
Last week the quiet town of Waseca, Minn. narrowly avoided becoming “one more in a long list of school shootings” (I will come back to this language of the CNN report). A boy, 17 years old, had plotted to kill his family and bomb the town’s junior and senior high ...
What does it mean to ‘gig’ American workers?
No doubt you will be thrilled to learn that we now live and work in a “gig economy.”
That’s the latest corporate buzz-phrase from Silicon...
Lesson after Amazon union defeat: Keep fighting
The union defeat at a giant Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a big blow to the labor movement. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a surprise...
