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A Free, Fair And Public Marijuana Debate

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BY RICHARD L. FRICKER DENVER – This mile high city moves. Downtown is alive with small shops and high dollar chains, bistros and restaurants of...

Pre-Trial Release Serves Public, Protects Accused

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BY GENE POLICINSKI When courts withhold public access to certain police or other records before trials – particularly high-profile ones – the reasoning generally reflects...

Ryan’s Budget: Right in Your Face, America!

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BY RALPH NADER The cruel impoverishment of the debate among the presidential and congressional candidates took a gigantic leap into the pits with Mitt Romney’s...

Vice Presidents?

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The conventional wisdom, at least until about four years ago, was that vice presidential selections, even the very good and the very bad, don’t end up mattering very much by November. Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle are perhaps the two best examples, the former with poll numbers through the roof [especially after […]

Helen Gurley Brown’s Mixed Legacy

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BY FROMA HARROP It took a poor girl from the Ozarks to look upon the candy store of sex and money that was postwar urban America and rearrange the shelves. Helen Gurley Brown was she, the brains behind the racy Cosmopolitan magazine empire and author of the 1962 sensation Sex and the Single Girl. Was […]