Opinion

Republican-lite Dems Today’s Democratic Party has distilled into Republican-lite. And it’s not tasting nice. This party is no longer the party of anti-war, anti-Wall Street, pro-environment,...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was a little late leaving for work. As I passed a motel on the 28th Street...

A militant alliance of unionized workers and environmentalists is emerging out of the first national oil refinery strike since 1980. An Unfair Labor Practices strike began on Feb. 1 after talks broke down between the United Steel Workers (USW) and Royal Dutch Shell, ...

Crime is (maybe, kinda, sorta) up, the new fire station is a go, and affordable housing is on the way

During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...

Barack Obama makes jokes every year at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner about the rightwing accusations that he is a socialist, a Muslim and foreignborn. This year, he mentioned Senator Bernie Sanders running for president...

The politics of hiding The air quality in Longmont is poor primarily due to fracking. The American Lung Association has given the area an “F”...

Scrolling through my Facebook feed, last week I noticed a rare delight: Edith Franco was beaming. Recently graduated with a master’s degree, she posed...

Wall Street is a bizarre place. It masquerades as a sober center of finance, but it operates as a wide-open bazaar of anythinggoes gambling games. Recently, the biggest casino player of them all, Goldman Sachs, made a bizarre effort to strike a sober public pose ...

The U.S. postal system has 30,000 outlets serving every part of America. It employs 630,000 people in good middle-class jobs, and it proudly delivers...

Time for social distancing This is a time of social distancing. To help stop the spread of the coronavirus, it is recommended that we avoid...

Second Amendment does not guarantee blanket gun ownership Here’s what Americans need to know about gun-control and mass shootings: First, despite Paul Danish’s claims that...