Opinion
Choosing terrain for activism
What if America had a parliamentary system? What if we got rid of the presidency and the Senate and turned the House of Representatives...
The six million dollar question on co-ops
It’s becoming quite clear co-op advocates can’t come up with better arguments other than referring to those of us who disagree with their proposals...
Who says America doesn’t need unions?
In their ongoing, all-out assault to crush labor unions, corporate forces have fabricated a cultural myth to undermine popular support for labor: Unions, they...
Letters: 9/15/16
Dyer’s a needed Muckraker
I shudder to think where we’ll be if journalists like Joel Dyer disappear. Amid massive layoffs at newspapers going “digital first,”...
Nixon explains the election
The Idea Fairy and I were testing out a new batch of edibles we’d baked when there was a knock on the door.
It was...
Health, safety, toxicity … and elections
Caring for the health and safety of our children and families is common ground where Americans on the Left and the Right meet. Yet,...
Here’s my plan to stop airlines from gouging us
In one of Stephan Pastis’ Pearls Before Swine comic strips, his character, “Rat,” develops a smart phone app that I want. As Rat explains...
Letters: 9/8/16
Colorado Secretary of State fails to protect Colorado citizens
On Sept. 4, 2016, it was reported that natural gas emissions surpassed coal according to the...
GOP racism and Trump
Donald Trump’s zigzags on race can be confusing. He holds a polite, presidential-style press conference with the president of Mexico and then goes to...
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...
When it comes to the Secretary of State’s office, the appearance...
Let me start by making one thing very clear; the reason that local control and setback Initiatives 75 and 78 failed to make the...
Letters: 9/1/2016
A Russian-friendly president is wise
The article “Putin’s Got A Friend in Trump” by Dave Anderson (Aug. 11, 2016) misses the most vital issue regarding...
