Lacrosse championship
Re: “Mammoth achievement looks easy for Colorado,” May 14 news story.
A Colorado professional sports team wins a national championship! Does The Denver Post cover this proud Colorado sports accomplishment with a front-page story? No. Does The Denver Post even mention this victory on the front page? No. Surely, a national championship is the lead story in the sports section of The Denver Post? Wrong again.
While there’s a small photo and caption in the bottom corner of the front page of the Sunday sports section, the single article reporting the Colorado Mammoth’s National Lacrosse League championship victory over the Buffalo Bandits isn’t found until page 2 of the sports section. What a disappointment. More importantly, how disrespectful to the players and coaches of the Mammoth and their great accomplishment, and to the thousands of loyal fans who pack the Pepsi Center at every Mammoth home game.
The Denver Post needs to recognize and do a better job of reporting on one of the fastest-growing and most popular sports in the country.
Tom Dougherty, Greenwood Village
In the red corner …
In May 2005, Congressman Bob Beauprez said the greatest need for Colorado transportation is to repair and maintain our crumbling infrastructure. He said that for the foreseeable future, Colorado is about $47 billion short of much needed funds to maintain and repair the transportation infrastructure. That shortfall does not even include money needed for new highways – the reason that the Colorado Department of Transportation is pushing unpopular toll-road initiatives.
Part of that shortfall is due to the loss of revenue under TABOR that Referendum C was intended to alleviate. After opposing the amendment, Beauprez is now in the irresponsible tax-cutting mode, proposing that any Referendum C money over $3.7 billion is not really needed for highways, or for education or health care.
The reason that the amendment passed is that Coloradans understand that what their taxes pay for can be more valuable than a few dollars in reduced taxes.
Dick Sugg, Golden
In the other red corner
I saw a TV ad for Marc Holtzman this week where he is claiming that he will cut taxes by a billion dollars if elected. Who is this guy kidding? We all know that Referendum C passed because the voters in this state realized that our budget crisis was severe enough to accept a tax increase. Holtzman should be completely forthcoming about this claim to cut taxes and describe $1 billion worth of specific program cuts that he would be forced to enact to make these tax cuts a reality.
Paul Gross, Highlands Ranch
“The Da Vinci Code”
Let’s set the record straight. “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown’s motive was not to skewer the Catholic Church, turn Christians to pagans, authenticate the Holy Grail, or promote the apocryphal gospels. His motive was greed.
He wrote a novel. Nothing wrong with that. Authors the world over and for centuries have done the same. As with all novelists who write in a historical context, he jury-rigged the facts to accommodate the storyline. Lots of websites, as well as this week’s U.S. News & World Report, offer the long-standing rebuttals to the so-called facts the protagonist of the story offers. And those “facts” shatter easily.
So let’s lighten up, everybody, and give the man his due.
Paul Davidson, Centennial
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