Opinion

Letters: 5/23/19

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Partial Mueller report Was there collusion, conspiracy or crime? Of course not, didn’t need to be. The Russians interfered to help Trump. Putin admitted he...

The Cutter incident: A cautionary tale for Operation Warp Speed

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The Trump administration is calling its push for a coronavirus vaccine “Operation Warp Speed.” If you don’t find the name cringe-worthy, you’re not old...

The shame of climate-change deniers

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Shame is that queasy feeling you get when you realize you’ve done something improper, ridiculous... or just flat-out contemptible. But it’s socially invaluable, for...

Letters: 6/6/2019

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Choose plants Have you seen the activists on Pearl Street wearing Guy Fawkes masks and holding television screens? Do you know what they’re doing there?...

Obama’s bizarre sales pitch for TPP

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For some bizarre reason, Obama is staking his presidential legacy on a trade scam called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s a corporate wet dream that would let profiteering giants in Japan, Vietnam, Brunei and eight other Pacific nations sue to overturn our ...

Obama’s silly Keystone Pipeline veto

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The main beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to veto construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is neither the climate, nor the environment, nor even the knee-jerk Greens who have been conducting their delusional vendetta against it...

City’s cleanup of teahouse site actually deserves kudos

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At first I thought it might just be the holiday season or perhaps the sense of optimism that tends to wash over me with the start of each new year. Whatever it was, I initially assumed it was tainting my perspective and clogging my journalistic BS filter. What I ...

State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor

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Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks...

Battle brews on living wages

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On Sept. 4, fast food workers went on strike in 159 American cities. Hundreds were arrested for acts of non-violent civil disobedience. It was the latest escalation in a campaign for a $15 minimum wage and the right to form a union without retaliation...

Bernie and Biden vs. Trumpists in Brazil

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I am writing this a few days before the election and feeling anxious. This may sound strange, but a look at the recent election...

Why are Republicans so quiet about their chief economic accomplishment?

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Listen... can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from the Trumpeteers and congressional Republicans who so loudly cheered themselves just...

FEC hacks kill another ethics reform

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The Federal Election Commission might as well be re-named the Federal Execution Commission, for it repeatedly and ruthlessly takes election reforms down a dark hallway in its building and executes them...