“Let us dedicate ourselves to the real fight, which is not with each other, but is to protect our health and the health of our planet….”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Tourism in the Time of Cholera, Part Three
“Now, where we will actively market… that will be strategic, and based on the comfort level of how well they’ve handled the situation…”
EDITORIAL: The PPP Dilemma
“…Yes, we applied while wearing our pajamas and slippers. There was no need to even put on shoes or drive to town….”
Open Letter from Journalists to Gov. Polis
“Our goal is simply to make sure journalists throughout Colorado can provide the public with information about COVID-19… that is as accurate and complete as possible…”
EDITORIAL: Tourism in the Time of Cholera, Part Two
“When this virus began, the number of cases was doubling every 1.5 days; now it’s doubling every six days, meaning the spread of the virus is beginning to slow…”
EDITORIAL: Tourism in the Time of Cholera, Part One
“At this point, we do not anticipate many revenues received before the end of July. Many properties closed in late March and there is little to no tourism expected…”
EDITORIAL: Neither Snow nor Rain nor Gloom of Night
“Under a worst case scenario, such downturn could result in the Postal Service having insufficient liquidity to continue operations…”
EDITORIAL: Incarceration in 2020 a Recipe for Disaster
It’s been nearly a month since ACLU Colorado sent a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, warning of a dire outcome if Colorado jails and prisons do nothing…
EDITORIAL: A Ballot Crisis in Colorado
A few months back, it looked like 2020 was going to be a big year for citizen-led democracy in Colorado, with dozens of initiatives hoping to land on the November ballot…
LETTER: Following Chicken Little?
In our history we have had real world medical issues that required quarantining of sick people. The quarantined person either eventually got well or they READ MORE
OPINION: OMG! Four More Years??
Cheerleaders operate on the sidelines and have absolutely no understanding of strategy and tactics, logistics and command…
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part Four
“However, the resulting mitigated epidemic would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems being overwhelmed many times over….”
OPINION: An Ill-Equipped US Healthcare System
During this pandemic, insurance companies are still asking whether the treatment you’re receiving is medically necessary?
OPINION: The End of War
If human beings behaved rationally, they would certainly recognize their common enemy and back this proposal…
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part Three
The New York Times article was thoughtfully illustrated with the picture shown above, taken by photographer Bob Miller…
LETTER: A Response to Myself
It must be illegal… the governors who have discovered that they are emperors, sitting in their offices and issuing decrees of who is essential and who is not…
OPINION: ACLU Lawsuit Filed Over COVID-19 Outbreak in Weld County
“Reducing the numbers of those arrested or incarcerated is vital to our efforts to limit and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our communities…”
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part Two
Colorado Governor Jared Polis and other state officials have been relying on a model built by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus…
EDITORIAL: You’re Not Supposed to Believe the Predictions, Part One
Several days earlier, Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, released the results of an analysis of global COVID cases…