Opinion

Respecting chickens, or chicken profits?

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Let`s talk chicken. I don’t mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word “chicken” and immediately think: “Dinner!” Some commercial interests in Georgia, however, think: “Money!” So they’ve launched a campaign to put the ...

A people’s victory in Montana

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Let’s hear it for American Tradition Partnership! It’s an organization that stands up for the politically dispossessed in our land. It goes to the highest courts to assert the fundamental rights of a minority that’s been denied its full voice in America’s political ...

Plenty of food, but not for all farmworkers

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On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully cooled from the heat...

Letters: 11/22/18

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Pardon your turkey While President Trump is pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, every one of us can exercise that same presidential power by choosing a...

Another lump of coal

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NCAR is going to build a giant new supercomputer, the better to study climate change, which is cool. Indeed, the project has already provided one profound, if wickedly ironic, insight into the problem...

When is daylight robbery not a crime?

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I thought Donnie Trump and his fellow Republicans were big law ‘n order politicians. So, why are they trying to kill the sheriff and unleash...

What about our farmers? 


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Earlier this year, in the midst of a trade war with China, President Donald Trump announced a $16 billion agriculture bailout, telling Americans, via...

Dirty money and the coronavirus

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Money makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it. Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS...

How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?

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Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So...

Climate change: U.N. takes on wrong problem — again

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The United Nations is holding a global climate conference in Durban, South Africa, this week and next for the purpose of breathing new life into the Kyoto Protocol or, short of that, forging some other international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions...

Boulder County residents demand a fracking ban

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Boulder County, known for its scenic vistas, abundant open space, as well as its efforts to fight climate change, is threatened by 140 oil...

Scotland’s burning! Greenland’s melting!

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The song goes back 450 years, give or take. You may even have sung it as a round in elementary school (assuming your teacher...