Opinion

Opinions welcome

Published September 2, 2003

When I told friends I was hired as the new editorials and opinions page editor of the Daily, I received many congratulations. However, I also heard a few complaints about the Daily's opinions page, namely...

Time to celebrate man’s mind

Published September 2, 2003

On Labor Day, we should honor man's mind, not muscles, as the real source of wealth and progress.

From small talk to lewd shock

Published September 2, 2003

In the toilet stalls, a bird-like, sanguine female voice tumbles out, "Oh yea, looks like it's going to snow REAL bad tonight. Wasn't yesterday just WONDERFUL?" My bowel movement stops and my abdomen clenches...

Local smoke-free policies work

Published August 18, 2003

SBy Isis Stark econdhand smoke kills approximately 65,000 nonsmokers every year and is the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Secondhand smoke causes 300,000 cases of childhood...

A closer look at St. Paul higher education

Published August 18, 2003

ABy Randy Kelly s I traveled around the city of St. Paul throughout my campaign for mayor, I was reminded that St. Paul has the third-largest concentration of higher education institutions in the nation....

Siberia anyone?

Published August 18, 2003

LBy Michael Barrett iberia, Siberia It's all the same American soldiers Down the drain Taxpayer money Pays the honey As contractors make hay The good ole' American way Liberia, hysteria, malaria Homicide,...

U.S.-China relations: Try common ground, not competition

Published August 18, 2003

IBy Diana Fu t is no secret that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, recharged U.S.-China relations. Overnight, China metamorphosed from a burgeoning powerhouse ready to explode U.S. hegemony to a less-than-menacing...

Why is Bush protecting Saudi Arabia?

by Karl Noyes
Published August 11, 2003

Not since Lee Harvey Oswald has there been a patsy so easy to pin as Saddam Hussein. No tears will be shed over Saddam's departure. However, if not for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he would still be in...

The imperative of funding basic science

by Erik Nelson
Published August 11, 2003

Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?" whereupon Euclid called his slave and said, "Give him three-pence, since he must make gain o

City pages provides no alternative whatsoever

Published August 4, 2003

TBy Pete Wagner he July 16 City Pages' cover story attacks the St. Paul Pioneer Press for being owned by a large, nonlocal corporation. This is the height of hypocrisy considering that City Pages was itself...