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This is The Denver Post’s Sound Off newsletter. Every Monday, we deliver to your inbox a roundup of what we’ve been publishing on the opinion pages over the past week, including both print and . That includes Denver Post , op-ed by Post columnists like Chuck Plunkett and Megan Schrader as well as nationally syndicated columnists like George F. Will and Garrison Keillor, plus guest commentaries, and editorial .
Perspective
First, a summary of what was in our Sunday Perspective section yesterday:
Brian Klaas of the London School of Economics argued that gerrymandering — the practice of drawing electoral districts in a distorted way for partisan gain — is the .
Dan Recht, a criminal and constitutional law attorney and former chair of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar asked: (And yes, we’re getting plenty of letters on that one. Tune in next week for a selection of those.)
Patrick Armstead, a legal adviser in Chicago, wrote that bureaucrats in the Trump administration nor should they be making the nation’s laws like they became accustomed to during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett wrote that during his wide-ranging press conference last Thursday.
In its , the Denver Post editorial board said it was a relief to see the presidentap press secretary reassure Americans that “there is no effort” to deploy 100,000 National Guard soldiers in 11 states to round up immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several questions, including:
Vincent Carroll, the longtime editorial page editor for the Rocky Mountain News and, more recently, The Denver Post, argued that the current debate being waged over trade made by the world’s poorest people.
In a satirical piece aimed at the Trump White House, The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri suggested that with Michael Flynn gone,
And in a more straightforward manner, Ed Rogers, a political consultant and a veteran of the White House and several national campaigns, argued that everyone really should should take a breath because
Patty Limerick, Colorado’s state historian and a monthly Denver Post columnist, on behalf of the Association of Befuddled American Citizens, who she said seem to be emerging as the true majority.
Monthly columnist Teresa Keegan offered a , dating back to the fall of the Roman empire and beginning with this quote from George W. Bush: It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”
Krista Kafer, a Post columnist and KNUS talk-show host, to pass a bill that would give the state’s charter schools the same level of funding as traditional public schools.
U.S. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, a Democrat from Arizona, relayed the story of activists convincing Utah’s Rep. Jason Chaffetz to pull a bill through the power of .
George F. Will offered some Sunday reading, praising a recent book by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, whom Will calls
And for those of you who can’t get enough editorial , here are the two we featured on the back page of Sunday’s Perspective section, on the topic of White House leaks related to Russia, both using a similar analogy:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
In an editorial aimed at Outdoor Retailer, the multimillion-dollar outdoor industry trade show that announced it is officially ditching Utah in protest over anti-public lands sentiment from the state’s politicians, we that Colorado is the right home for the show.
Regarding Jeanette Vizguerra, the immigrant who made news when she took sanctuary in a Denver church last week, we that our lawmakers need to make sense of our inhumane immigration system, not seek ways to punish those who are here illegally.
Why did former national security adviser Michael Flynn lie to White House officials and Vice President Mike Pence about his December conversation with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.? Maybe it has something to do with his boss, , telling obvious lies before and after his election.
In an editorial on Colorado’s capital punishment system, we said the problems with the system are almost too lengthy to list and that the legislature should pass Senate Bill 95, which would .
Op-ed columns:
Where does the sidewalk end? In Denver, wrote Megan Schrader, it ends in . The city has more than 500 miles of streets with no sidewalks.
Greg Dobbs, a weekly Denver Post columnist and former ABC News foreign correspondent, assessed the first 30 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. His verdict:
Leonid Bershidsky, a Bloomberg View columnist, suggested that — and you should be afraid.
Former “A Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor took a break from criticizing the president last week to of making friends in a New England snowstorm.
President Donald Trump said in his press conference that his administration is a “fine-tuned machine.” The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson said that machine is .
Another Washington Post columnist, E.J. Dionne, responded even more critically, saying Trump is as president.
Former Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi suggested that if liberals were serious about convincing Republicans to abandon Trump, than Trump.
Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post weighed in on selfie taken by a patron of Mar-a-Lago, the president’s “winter White House.”
Charles Lane, a Washington Post editorial writer and columnist, argues that the nation’s food stamp program.
In a guest commentary, Jonathan Sciarcon, an assistant professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Denver, lamented the in light of Trump’s meeting last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“[W]e must remember that what truly differentiates democracy from despotism is political competition. The longer we allow our districts to be hijacked by partisans, blue or red, the further we gravitate away from the founding ideals of our republic and the closer we inch toward the death of American democracy.”
Brian Klaas, London School of Economics fellow
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