Opinion

On Proposition 113: More is needed than eliminating the Electoral College

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I was 11 years old. It was the first presidential election I remember. John Kennedy eventually won with 303 electoral votes and a 112,000-popular-vote advantage....

Rent relief in St. Paul and the Polis betrayal

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Two very different stories have big implications for renters.

Letters | Don´t give in to oil and gas

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A letter to the Boulder County commissioners: As a concerned citizen keeping close to the issue of fracking, I can tell you that if you think the public outcry has been bad thus far, it’s been nothing compared to what it will become if you give in to the oil and gas ...

Finding the money to fund higher education for all

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Question: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions-of-dollars each year...

Low-wage corporate exploiters dressed as mom & pop

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When corporate lobbyists and the Congress critters they control attack efforts to raise the minimum wage to at least a bare level of human decency, they always try to cast the issue as an intolerable squeeze on struggling mom & pop stores. But wait what are those ...

A call to civility

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A call to civility...

Letters: 11/21/19

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Kudos to Terrapin Regarding the latest column by “Seymour”(Re: “Can the marijuana industry lead the way on a living wage?” Weed Between the Lines, Nov....

Fired CEOs get gilded goodbyes

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In these times of nationwide job insecurity, with five applicants lined up for every job opening, CEOs warn workers that they’d better perform — or else. Or else they’ll be unceremoniously booted out the door...

Letters 4/21/22

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Wrong Way Encouraging use of E-85 is a wrong way to go.  Even changing E-10 to E-15 is a poor idea. E-85 is 85% ethanol...

Far from liberalizing global policies, TPP is corporatizing them

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Words can be discombobulating when people twist them to fit concepts that are the exact opposite of what the word actually means...

NSA and DHS defend us against sinister website

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It’s a scary world out there, with global terrorists plotting to kill us...

Counter ALEC with ALICE

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Poor Alec just keeps bumbling, stumbling, and tumbling. You could feel sorry for such a hapless soul, except that this isn’t a person, but the soulless ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. This secretive corporate front is behind hundreds of regressive ...