Opinion

Police reform and the rebirth of hope

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Multi-racial crowds of people are rallying across the country in the middle of a pandemic against police violence. The number of white people demonstrating is...

Helpful New Year’s resolutions

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In addition to working up my own list of New Year’s resolutions, it occurs to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions for their lists. No need for them to thank me — happy to help...

Don’t forget about NAFTA

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By now it’s well understood that Trump will do anything to help corporations make money. The current effort to rewrite the North American Free...

‘The New York Times’ strikes out

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For more than a century, The New York Times has unabashedly bragged in a banner slogan that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit...

For now, Blue Book analysis of Prop DD is all wet

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Here we go again. Every election cycle we get to peruse the Legislative Council’s Blue Book, which is supposed to guide us in an...

How much does it cost to buy a public university’s integrity?

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First came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the “Antonin Scalia School Of Law.” Yes,...

Juneteenth: past, present and future

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How do we know who we are without knowing where we come from? It is imperative that we not start our African-American story with...

The real Safer Boulder

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By Brooke Harrison, PhD and Leslie Chandler, Safer Boulder members Who is Safer Boulder? Safer Boulder is a nonpartisan grass-roots organization committed to supporting public...

Safe Zones is not a serious solution

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The Simpsons has a long-running gag centered on pearl-clutching busybody Helen Lovejoy exclaiming “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” The “think of the...

If not now, then when?

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John F. Kennedy once said, “Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The...

Legalize marijuana

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I’m writing about Robert Sharpe’s thoughtful letter, “Jail is not a pot deterrent” (Letters, Nov. 26). According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 44 percent of adults believe that pot is just as dangerous as, or more dangerous than, alcohol (http://tinyurl.com/lqmqqz). ...

Boney fingers v. soft hands work

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An old cliché says: “Hard work always pays off...