Opinion

Letters: 8/15/19

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Join the March for Unity on August 25 A recent annual report claims that hate crimes in Colorado nearly doubled in 2018 to 185 reported...

Pension cuts serve the rich

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“When you cut someone’s wages, at least that person can say, ‘I’m not working for you.’ By cutting retiree pensions, this is literally reaching into their bank account and stealing from them after the fact.” --Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute...

Free market fundamentalism and COVID-19

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The world turns upside down a couple times a day. As I write this, President Trump has caught COVID-19 and is benefiting from “socialized...

A history of atrocities against American Indians

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When Christopher Columbus and his men landed in the New World, he described in his log how the friendly Arawak Indians ran to greet them and offered food, water and gifts: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the ...

The new American aristocracy

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Multibillionaire brothers Charles and David Koch want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e., the will of the people —...

2018 elections: A very brief look at what we learned

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Let’s start with something positive on the national front — hope lives. We are better off today than we were on Nov. 5. And while...

Can Biden be FDR and stop the Trumpist chaos?

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Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) said of Joe Biden, “Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos.”...

Letters 6.10.21

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The filibuster should be put out of our misery The filibuster is an archaic relic of America’s racist past. The rule has no place in...

Nixon explains why Bernie will clean Bloomberg’s clock

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Me and the Idea Fairy had almost finished airing out the house when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon,...

Ban fracking? Why stop there?

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I have a modest proposal to resolve the fractious issue of fracking in Colorado. It’s a win-win amendment to the Colorado Constitution that will pass in a landslide...

Giving thanks for grassroots progressives

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  Wow, that was an exhilarating election, wasn’t it? Of course, even a car wreck can be exhilarating...

Guess who’s serving the student loan industry?

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Question: What do you get when you combine ignorance, imperiousness and incompetence? Answer: Betsy DeVos. She’s Donald Trump’s multi-billionaire education secretary who hates public education...