“In the weeks ahead, we must continue working to support families, keep small businesses afloat, and ensure that our health care workers have everything they need…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
ACLU of Colorado Statement on Polis’ Guidance to Local Law Enforcement
Governor Polis is to be commended for putting science and the heath of all Coloradans above politics…
EDITORIAL: Senate Approves ‘Stimulus Checks’ and Much More in $2 Trillion Package
The bill now goes to the US House of Representatives, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced a planned vote tomorrow morning…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Eight
For all of these reasons, we might want to pay attention to the latest Order handed down by the folks in Denver…
HMPRESENTLY: Evocative Words… Are They Hazardous to Our Health?
Maybe your parents or relatives talked about the Great Depression, about people struggling to get by when the global economy crashed in the ’30s…
OPINION: Further Steps Needed to Protect the Incarcerated
The legislation includes funding for federal, state and local corrections systems to counteract the spread of COVID-19…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Seven
“Flattening the curve buys society time, which hopefully is used well to ramp up medical facilities…”
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Six
The occasion was a special “Seniors Only” shopping event, from 7-8am…
HMPRESENTLY: Rough Notes During Coronavirus Briefings
“When President Donald Trump speaks, financial markets gyrate and quiver in real time……”
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Five
“We were about $400 million dollars behind where we should have been on the unemployment insurance trust fund…”
EDITORIAL: The Quest for a Test
Denver’s drive-through experiment was shut down after less than a week of sporadic testing, with no announced date for re-opening…
LETTER: The Answer is Simple
Businesses that close for safety will open again with employee guarantee positions when displaced…
LETTER: Unprecedented Times Require Unprecedented Measures
We don’t want families choosing between food and medicine or paying property taxes…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Four
All this was before international borders were closed, and every spare roll of toilet paper disappeared into hoarders’ closets…
LETTER: K-12 School Funding History
What I presented at the board meeting was an historical representation of the change in per-pupil funding from the state of Colorado…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Three
Colorado restaurants and coffeehouses are currently allowed to serve carry-out orders only…
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part Two
“If anything kills over 10 million people in the coming decades, it’s likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war…”
EDITORIAL: Closed for Business, Part One
We know that the vast majority of people who contract the novel coronavirus will fully recover, and go on with their lives as healthy citizens…
OPINION: My Students Will Meet This Moment
“Why aren’t we all getting tested if we want to track this thing?”