Safety is a top priority when there’s an accident at an oil refinery or a coal mine. And when some passenger falls off a cruise ship…
Category: Opinion/Letters
LETTER: Americans Losing Their Health Insurance
What’s the best way to cover the millions of Americans who are losing their insurance every week? The answer is hiding in plain sight…
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Five
To judge by the news articles I’ve come across, California’s Imperial Irrigation District is a political sacred cow…
EDITORIAL: Ready for Lower Taxes?… Part Two
Whether those same folks believe a Governor can toss out (temporarily?) the well-established laws governing the placement of a citizen initiative on the November ballot, I cannot say…
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Four
Here’s a photo of the lovely view looking northwest from Snowball Road on May 20, 2020. I’m not sure how many ranches we can see in this photo… maybe two.. or three?
EDITORIAL: Ready for Lower Taxes?… Part One
“Protecting our democracy, access to the ballot and making sure citizens can qualify ballot measures and can qualify as candidates to run for office during this time is critical…”
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Three
The truth is difficult to get at, when we’re faced with apparently contradictory evidence. Are we really in the midst of a megadrought that will last for decades? Are we actually just wasting our limited water resources in a careless, devil-may-care manner?…
OPINION: Slow-Walking to the End to Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration exacerbates the health consequences of the coronavirus pandemic because of unsanitary conditions of confinement and an inability to physically distance…
EDITORIAL: Our New Normal
“This implies that by staying home, you’re doing something that helps protect people. To not stay home then, would mean putting others at risk….”
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part Two
Under the “Irrigation” tab, we can find the amount of water that USGS believes was used for that purpose in Archuleta County in 2015…
OPINION: America, in the Balance
‘We the People’ are battling a catastrophic pandemic ‒ over 90,000 deaths so far ‒ and Trump is talking about ‘Obamagate’?…
LETTER: Rural Healthcare Gets Slammed
As a Family Medicine doctor who has worked in rural Colorado throughout my 33 year career, I am very concerned about the future health of the families I have cared for….
EDITORIAL: Clean Drinking Water, Considered, Part One
“The purpose of the Dry Gulch Reservoir Project is to provide adequate water for the health and welfare of the Districts’ constituents due to unprecedented growth within their boundaries….”
OPINION: Germ Theory v. Terrain Theory
Nightingale’s 6-foot rule was very specific to sick patients, in a hospital full of disease, and patients too sick to care for themselves…
HMPRESENTLY: C’mon! Get Your Badass On!
So, right here, right now, I’m unveiling ‘BADASS DEMS FOR AMERICA’. Imagine those big, bold words on campaign posters and lawn signs….
OPINION: The Dangerous Consequences of Bias
By Wim Laven It must be said upfront: not all bias is bad — some biases are essentially heuristics, shortcuts that help us process patterns READ MORE
EDITORIAL: The Impending Vaccine Troubles, Part Seven
“I must warn, there is also the possibility of negative consequences, where certain vaccines can actually enhance the negative effects of the infection…”
EDITORIAL: The Impending Vaccine Troubles, Part Six
It then turned out the DTaP vaccine was less effective than the DPT vaccine. In fact, the CDC now reports that the pertussis vaccine does not confer immunity at all…
EDITORIAL: The Impending Vaccine Troubles, Part Five
One of the expert speakers at the 2019 WHO Summit, quoted in the video, notes that ‘antigens’ are not the main cause of vaccine side effects. That honor falls to the adjuvants…