Jim Roberts

A toxic chemical recently discovered in wildfire smoke by Boulder researchers may be lurking in heavy concentrations in Southeast Asia, Siberia, China and tropical Africa, according to a new study. Read More

Batavia boys basketball coach Jim Roberts stepped down Monday after 27 seasons. Read More

Sir, Philip Stephens ("Philanthropy is a virtue but not an alternative to paying tax", April 17) may well be right to doubt that charitable giving is invariably superior to public spending, though I have little doubt that donors make sure it is more efficiently spent; but Jim Roberts ("Every £1 of tax relief leaves £1 of tax to be raised elsewhere", Letters) is surely wrong when he contends that every pound of tax relief leaves a pound of additional tax to be raised elsewhere. Read More

Sir, If a politician were to suggest that a significant amount of government spending should be directed by those with the highest taxable incomes to causes that they personally espouse, there would be outrage. Read More