Opinion
What about our farmers?
Earlier this year, in the midst of a trade war with China, President Donald Trump announced a $16 billion agriculture bailout, telling Americans, via...
London and the usual lies
The blood on London Bridge and the barroom floors in Borough Market was still drying when the world’s leaders started denouncing the Islamic terrorists...
Should our natural resources have legal rights?
From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not stately legislative halls, but...
Daddy’s philosophy
This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving — giving of ourselves...
Who killed Proposition 19?
Polls taken in California last year and earlier this year found a majority of the state’s voters favored the legalization of marijuana...
Colorado ‘promotes’ natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River
Parachute Creek is now officially contaminated with cancer-causing benzene and heaven knows what else. A carcinogenic stew is now making its way quickly down the creek and presumably into the Colorado River a mere four miles away from the source of the contamination...
Moneyed elites get richer the old-fashioned way: Stealing
Get ready to swallow your “Statistic of the Day!” But first, to help you absorb the big one, here’s a preliminary statistic for you:...
What’s the cost of high living?
The rich aren’t merely different from you and me... they’re ridiculous!
The über-rich, I mean, the billionaire barons of Wall Street, who literally live above...
Letters: 12/6/2018
Solving poverty in the U.S.
Thanks to Jim Hightower for pointing out the absurdity of the recent “poverty is over” announcement (Re: “Have you heard...
How is Trump like Humpty-Dumpty?
Comandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman!
That’s the image our current commander-in-chief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened...
Letters: 5/17/18
On Alden Global Capital and local media
The callousness of Alden Global Capital for their bottom line has been a blow to journalism. As a subscriber...
It’s greed that fuels this CEO’s ‘grit’
Heather Bresch regards herself as a self-made corporate success story — a woman who came out of hard-scrabble West Virginia and scrambled to the...











