Whitehorse Daily Star: Opinions Archive

Opinions Archive

Beware of economists' grand predictions Economists have a poor record in their economic forecasts.
It takes a fool to desecrate a graveyard DAWSON CITY - While Dawson's graveyards are interesting and I have wandered in them from time to time, I can't say that I've spent a lot of time there in recent years.

Getting over the trade-in blues DAWSON CITY - There's someone out there driving our SUV.
Israel: The politics of indecision wear on LONDON - "I am proud to be a citizen of a country where the prime minister can be investigated like an ordinary citizen," Ehud Olmert said last Wednesday, announcing that he would resign as prime minister in September to defend himself against corruption allegations.

I'll be hoping for a parade down Main Street I suspect I won't be the only Yukoner watching the Beijing Olympics with more than casual interest.
The weakening concept of family and belonging "Forever Oneness who sings to us in Silence,
How to drive customers into the showroom As you well know, oil prices have risen sharply over the past year, affecting the cost of everything we purchase.
'Firebrand Firth': a political sparkplug is silenced It's a pity that Bea Firth never penned her political memoirs. Her candid interpretations of the colourful cauldron of early party politics would have been a cotton-pickin', pea-splittin' limited-edition barn-burner.

Karadzic: a victim of soft power LONDON - Radovan Karadzic's disguise was quite elaborate, but he didn't spent the past 13 years hiding from the Serbian authorities.

Russia could make its Arctic claim stick LONDON - What connects oil at soaring prices per barrel with April's discovery of huge cracks in the Ward Hunt ice shelf off Ellesmere Island at the top of Canada's Arctic archipelago?

Strong farm gate prices have settled in At long last, our farmers are prospering.
Global economies are in for drastic changes LONDON - You have to hand it to the economics team at Goldman Sachs.

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