Month November 2005

Saving Tookie will save lives

From Earl Ofari Hutchinson Williams was long gone from the scene by the time the Crips devolved and morphed into the hundreds of factions nationally, and internationally, that have since become major players in the gun and drug plague. The…

Private water costs more

Everyone who buys a house in Denver’s growing suburbs pays a hidden price for water. That first twist of the faucet in a new suburban home costs as much as $24,424 – more than twice the amount charged in any…

Ski resorts and global warming

The Age newspaper in Australia has reported that the country’s resorts are planning to follow the American ski industry, with a campaign telling snowboarders and skiers that global warming will cut short their winter over the coming decades.

Pay up to save rainforests

A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests. The group of 10 countries, led by Papua New…

The colonel and the corruption

Col. Ted Westhusing, West-Point trained, a straight arrow, the best and the brightest, went to Iraq. He either killed himself or was murdered after learning of possible corruption and human rights violations by private contractors to the US. So it…