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Thinking about a risk-benefit analysis seems almost guaranteed to make the eyes glaze over. Yet, its something we all do every day.Whats the benefit of doing something? Whats the risk involved...
DATE: June 9, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Earlier this month the Senate Finance Committee hauled the heads of five of the worlds largest oil companies before it in Washington D.C. for a routine public flogging.Pump prices are high and oil...
DATE: May 31, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Theres too much ignorance about health care costs in retirementOur sluggish economic recovery is taking its toll well beyond lengthening unemployment lines and ballooning bloat in the federal...
DATE: May 24, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
That man, that woman, that couple who look like theyve lived hard years are sometimes hard to pass by. Panhandlers work intersections and curbsides in Anchorage; black letters on brown cardboard...
DATE: May 17, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Its been clear for a long time that some members of Pakistans notorious security establishment have been collaborating closely with al-Qaida and the Taliban. Indeed, theres so much collaboration...
DATE: May 12, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Why is it that each year at budget time our nation seems to be faced with a capitol filled with children?Almost like clockwork, it seems, Congress begins drawing arbitrary lines in the sand and...
DATE: April 21, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
President Barack Obama will find no disagreement in our region with his stated goal to cut our nations oil imports by a third over the next decade and replace it with U.S. energy sources,...
DATE: April 7, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is under attack from majority Republicans in Congress and a number of powerful industries nationwide, you would never know it, as the agency...
DATE: March 31, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
We have watched with a sense of numbness and awe as a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions has developed these recent days in Japan.A 9.0-magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami of Biblical...
DATE: March 26, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
Let bureaucracy roam free and chaos will reign. Its the Rule of Always. It will always happen.It certainly has with the federal budget. In fact, its one of the major reasons why the government is...
DATE: March 17, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
A GOP-controlled committee of the Colorado House of Representatives on Thursday forwarded a bill that would require the secretary of states office to compare voter rolls with state and federal...
DATE: March 12, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say
It was a sad week in Colorado, after Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper on Feb. 15 proposed severe state budget cuts. If enacted by the Legislature, teachers will lose jobs, students will suffer,...
DATE: March 5, 2011 | COLUMN: Others Say