Opinion
Letters: Aug. 31, 2023
A DOUBLE ENDORSEMENT
I am excited about the mayoral race this year because for the first time in our city’s history, we will be electing...
Sorry, we created a world dumb enough for Trump
Hurricane Trump presents us with a peculiar sort of national emergency. Every day, the Bullshitter-in-Chief deploys a blizzard of lies, half-truths, conspiracy theories and...
Our kids deserve art and music
Fostering music programs in schools has always been difficult. Imagine being a middle school orchestra teacher on the first day of school with 30-50...
Letters: 4/26/18
Democratic Party shenanigans
Democracy for America (DFA), a political action committee founded by former presidential candidate Howard Dean, claims that its mission is “to take our...
Plenty of food, but not for all farmworkers
On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully cooled from the heat...
Letters 4/29/21
Waldorf Finance
In my career I served as a national, institutional-level commercial real estate appraiser, and earlier as a staff economist for an $18 billion...
A global New Deal
The two major parties will have to change, or they are likely to be changed by voters who have had enough,” the Reverend Jesse...
Letters 7.8.21
Happy Juneteenth, Chancellor
In a June 18 email to employees of the Colorado Community College System (CCCS), Chancellor Joe Garcia said about the recently adopted...
It’s time to vaccinate the world
President Joe Biden’s commitment to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses (sufficient to fully vaccinate 250 million people) was great news but, with billions...
Is more technology the answer to too much technology?
We humans have got to get a whole lot smarter, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla automobiles and CEO of SpaceX rockets....
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...
Letters: 5/3/18
Diplomacy and war
According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the dangers of nuclear war are at their highest since 1953. Russia and the U.S.,...
