Letters: What Do You Think?

The Chicken Connection I’d like to thank Maureen Turner for writing an insightful and measured article (“Poultry Politics: Is the Valley ready for urban chickens?”, April 22) on a local topic that is so intrinsically linked to the national...

Got Extra Milk?

There are a lot of lessons you might take from the string of natural disasters—the earthquakes and tsunamis, floods and droughts—that have been cropping up around the globe in recent years: about the effects of climate change, say, or the wisdom of nuclear...

Look Who's Watching Videos

Do you ever find yourself gazing at your cherubic, dimple-chinned baby lolling about in her crib and thinking to yourself: when is this little slob going to stop all this drooling and goo-goo-ga-ga nonsense and start getting serious about her future? Let’s face...

Between the Lines: After Bin Laden

Ding, dong, the witch is dead. Osama bin Laden, the author of the 9/11 atrocity in the United States and various lesser terrorist outrages elsewhere, has been killed by American troops in his hide-out in northern Pakistan. At last, the world can breathe more easily....

Letters: What Do You Think?

Future Bleak for Nukes I should like to comment on the “Nuclear Power Safe” letter that appeared in your April 14 issue. I believe that further clarification is needed regarding matters introduced in this letter. The statement that “the nuclear power...