Matthew Parker

A worker carries bags of used cans and bottles for recycling at a collection point in New York on Oct. 18, 2021.

Op-ed: Despite grandiose Glasgow rhetoric, recycling is falling apart

November 16, 2021 at 1:58 p.m.

Despite the lofty carbon reduction goals grandiosely spoken about in Glasgow, the future of recycling in the world looks bleak. Without a robust global and localized recycling rate, other carbon...

Generally immoral

August 21, 2021 at 11:44 p.m.

So, Gen. Peter Pace says homosexuality is immoral? Well, I think that anyone who would say something so hateful and foolish is immoral.

Plain old bigotry

August 21, 2021 at 9:25 a.m.

It's just ludicrous to insist, as columnist Kathleen Parker has about Dennis Prager, that wanting to force someone to take his oath of office with his hand on the Bible...

What teens do

August 21, 2021 at 3:44 p.m.

This alarmist hubbub about teen drinking and drugging is silly. I grew up in this area, graduated from a suburban high school in 1980 and a state college in 1985....

Reasonable voice

August 21, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.

Day after day I keep reading letters from readers who don't care for columnist Molly Ivins. They never dispute anything she writes, they just don't like that she says it....

Money to Iraq

August 21, 2021 at 3:35 a.m.

In the Oct. 8 editorial "Paying for peace in Iraq," the Tribune takes a shot at the money that went to West Virginia during the tenure of Sen. Robert C....

Funding Iraq

August 19, 2021 at 11:21 p.m.

In response to George W. Bush's request for $87 billion, I have an answer: No. This country cannot afford to spend that much money cleaning up Bush's mess. If Bush...

Column lite

August 20, 2021 at 1:32 a.m.

I've read many letters taking the Tribune to task for publishing various columnists, both conservative and liberal. I could really do without Kathleen Parker. As a writer she seems to...

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