Opinion
Letters: 2/20/2020
Wild places
The Adventure article, “Quicksand and Barbaric Yawps” (Re: Feb. 13, 2020) about wilderness therapy highlights the importance of the wilderness and wild places...
A modest proposal to begin updating our national symbols
Symbols matter. That’s why the time has come to replace the tired old bald eagle on the great seal of the United States and in other patriotic venues with a critter more in keeping with the lifestyle, values and morals of 21st-century America: The rat...
How many tweety birds does it take to tweet the truth?
In CorporateWorld, when trouble pops up and things get sticky, CEOs don’t wring their hands and try to dodge the issue. No-sir-ee, the chief...
Trump serves the people — rich ones, that is
Donald Trump bragged in 2016 that, “I know words — I have the best words.”
Well, occasionally he does use some very fine words...
Big change or stability?
Democrats are divided over whether to support a presidential candidate who proposes big structural change for the working class majority or a candidate who...
Letters: 7/13/17
Offended by cover
Your July 4 cover illustration was highly offensive to any military person, past, present, healthy, maimed or dead. These people risked life...
How much does it cost to buy a public university’s integrity?
First came withering hoots of laughter when the honchos of George Mason University named their law school the “Antonin Scalia School Of Law.” Yes,...
YIMBYs and housing justice
If you spend more than 30% of your income on housing, the federal government says you are “cost-burdened.” You are paying too much. According...
Predicting the future: The internet and two old poems
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” —Yogi Berra
Back in 1984 or 1985, the late Jerry Pournelle, sci-fi writer, futurist, computer geek...
PERA should divest from fossil fuels for the climate as well...
Colorado legislators and Colorado’s state pension fund — Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) — should be paying close attention to the fact that a...












