Opinion

Help cure Sallie Mae’s sugar addiction

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Sallie Mae is not one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is filled with sugar, but it comes from you and me, thanks to a longtime sweetheart deal she has from the federal government...

Strike wave may be the beginning of something big

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"There’s a new strike wave happening now," says Alexander Colvin, the dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The discontent has been...

Political con men are shrinking America

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In my state of Texas, things tend to be bigger — bigger hats, bigger money and bigger thievery by political con men...

Mental health is medical health

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Not long ago, I got a call from a friend that her 19-year-old daughter Liv had died by suicide. Their family was shaken to...

Letters: 3/17/16

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Profanity One of the many depressing aspects of the recent presidential debates is the low level to which the Republican Party has fallen — culminating...

Letters: 11/16/17

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Democrats need to step up After reading the opinions of Paul Danish and George Newell in last week’s paper, I was reminded of two sayings:...

Measuring Congress by the numbers

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Never have so few done so little for so many. But at last, they’re gone — Congress has adjourned for the year...

Letters: 10/25/18

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Vote for Weiser Phil Weiser is pro-choice. George Brauchler is not pro-choice. They are both running for Colorado Attorney General, a role that some have described as...

Humpty Dumpty, Jews and Armageddon

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My mom always told me opening my big mouth about politics and religion would be my downfall. I don’t disagree. But this is one...

A modest proposal for combating the plague of robocalls

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Like the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the State of Colorado contains a clause protecting the right to keep and bear arms. It’s found...

Malicious merger merchants strike again

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Five men suddenly found themselves faced with an all-out attack on their territory. Five men confronted by a hostile power. But these five men looked destiny in the eye — and then they suited up and took care of business...

Boiling frogs

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Editor’s note: Welcome to the first installment of The Unrepentant Tenant, a biweekly column diving into the history, mythology and impact of rent control...