Opinion
Letters | Blowing smoke
Blowing smoke (Re: “Cain’s manager inhales,” Danish Plan, Nov. 3.) When Paul Danish refers to Herman Cain’s future search for “all sorts of unexpected and ignored constituencies” that, like the Smoker’s Block he’s presumably won over, will Cain be going after the ...
Triptych and Trump
The uproar over Russian meddling in the U.S. election diverts our attention from the larger phenomenon of Russia’s support for far right movements in...
If we can find WallStreetBets users, why can’t we find Q?
In the final days of January, the identity of Reddit user “DeepF—ingValue” from the forum WallStreetBets was made public at the same time most...
The militarization of ‘Officer Friendly’
Let’s check our weaponry: 93,000 machine guns, 533 planes and helicopters, 180,000 magazine cartridges and 432 mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles. OK, let’s roll...
Israelis split on Iran deal
Bill Clinton, when he was running for re-election as President in 1996, declared, “We remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.” His ...
This is not a drill
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t cause the problem but it has opened our eyes to the reality that our health care system is severely lacking...
Letters: 3/16/17
Time to transition
from Xcel
Today policy is at a crossroads; a decision must be made whether to adhere to decaying remnants of our past or...
Letters | Nice rake
Correction: An Oct. 25 photo caption with the story “50 years of skiing Colorado” in Winter Scene misidentified the skier alongside Vail co-founder Pete Seibert as Earl Eaton. The identity of that skier is unknown...
The educated working poor: Adjunct professors
There’s a growing army of the working poor in our USofA, and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s...
Progressives outperform and democracy gets a reprieve
The apocalypse has been averted in the midterms. There was a fragile, informal, anti-fascist united front from Noam Chomsky to Liz Cheney. Joe Biden...
Deception, the shared value of both parties
There’s a downside to being the editor of a newspaper. It seems like every political organization in the state — including front groups for both major parties — feels compelled to send me its 10 favorite press releases every single day including Sundays and holidays...











