The weekly newsletter of The Denver Post’s opinion pages.
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 Megan Schrader and Greg Dobbs, as well as nationally syndicated columnists like Kathleen Parker and Garrison Keillor, plus guest commentaries, and editorial .
Perspective
First, a summary of what was in our Sunday Perspective section yesterday:
Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist who writes The Washington Post’s Right Turn blog, wrote that on trade.
Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle weighed in on Republicans’ health care plan and said it’s supposed to replace.
Denver Post columnist Diane Carman wrote that in 2017, we are about to see exactly what America’s leadership is made of. She asked: Will Republicans Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner ?
Mario Nicolais wrote that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has quietly demonstrated that just as easily as a Supreme Court justice.
In our Sunday editorial, the editorial board pointed out that on the Republicans’ health care bill. When Gardner campaigned against former Sen. Mark Udall, he accused Udall of casting the deciding vote on Obamacare. Will he cast the deciding vote on the GOP bill?
On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
Dottie Lamm, Post columnist and former Colorado first lady, weighed in on Colorado’s childhood immunization rates. She noted that while rates have risen over the years, .
Former Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, now a Post columnist, asked the question:
Monthly columnist Teresa Keegan discovered that at the intersection of municipal trash collection and the Pledge of Allegiance — both of which made an appearance at a recent Westminster City Council meeting — is a of civil, participatory democracy.
Sage Hospitality CEO Peter Karpinski, in a guest commentary, explained why he to unaffiliated during these troubling times.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker , in which male Marines were sharing photos of their fellow female Marines and others on Facebook.
Garrison Keillor again this week, writing a paranoid epistle in the style of his favorite political target: President Donald Trump.
George F. Will recently traveled to Arizona State University in Tempe and reported on , which teaches the history of ideas and statesmanship.
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 WikiLeaks revealing CIA tools that can hack into your personal electronics, including cellphones and smart TVs:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
Of the 28 states that have legalized marijuana for adults or patients, 12 ban home cultivation and no other state allows people to grow more than 16 plants in their homes. We believe the , which would limit grows in residential areas to 16 plants per house regardless of how many people live in the house or what their medical marijuana plant count is.
Colorado’s lawmakers deserve praise for crafting bipartisan legislation that would ask voters in November to help the state finally get serious about upgrading our besieged roads. House Bill 1242 seeks to raise $3.5 billion over 20 years to widen interstates, fix problem bridges and pour money into local transit projects. Out of the gate, .
Officials in the Colorado Division of Youth Corrections ought to to a recent report released this month by the Child Safety Coalition. According to the report, juvenile prisoners are isolated for hours in tiny, barren rooms, wrapped in full-body straitjackets, and subdued with “knee strikes” and other pain-compliance techniques that have ended with rug burns.
In fulfilling his “America First” campaign pledge with a second try at what amounts to the most restrictive immigration policy in decades, President Donald Trump has avoided many of the mistakes of the first iteration. But the new order aimed at six Muslim-majority countries that is bound to make the country less safe over time.
President Donald Trump’s assertions that President Barack Obama engaged in Watergate-style spying on him — claims made without supporting evidence — are they would be laughable if not for the great harm such allegations do: if not to his already tenuous credibility, then to the reputation of the office.
Op-ed columns:
Denver Post columnist Greg Dobbs responded to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center’s recent decision to start charging its customers to park in its garage. Dobbs asked:
Sen. Michael Bennet, the Colorado Democrat, weighed in on the Republicans’ health care plan, saying Trumpcare to what ails health care.
Tera W. Hunter, a professor in the history department and department of African-American studies at Princeton University, had a message for the new secretary of Housing and Urban Development: No, Ben Carson, — they were property.
Isaac Orr, a research fellow specializing in hydraulic fracturing at The Heartland Institute, said a recent study by Dr. Lisa McKenzie of the Colorado School of Public Health, leukemia with oil and gas development.
Colorado marijuana law allows multiple individuals to cooperatively grow what amounts to an unlimited number of marijuana plants, wrote Denver Post columnist Megan Schrader. The result can be mega-grows, and itap difficult for law-enforcement agents to distinguish legitimate grows from those that serve out-of-state cartels. Schrader supports .
Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman, who teaches law at Harvard, wrote that President Donald Trump’s accusing Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower could possibly be considered .
In light of the furor over the president’s wiretap accusations, Eugene Robinson asked:
Bloomberg View’s Ramesh Ponnuru also weighed on the wiretap tweets: The possibility that Trump has some legitimate grievance about the behavior of the Obama administration can’t be ruled out. But there’s to take that possibility more seriously than Trump himself seems to be taking it.
Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen argued that the political attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions is .
Don A. Childears, president and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association, wrote that the is hurting customers, communities and the economy. Colorado bankers, he explained, have long advocated for meaningful reform of Dodd-Frank rather than wholesale repeal, so that community banks aren’t continually crushed by one-size-fits-all regulation.
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“For example, the problem of . How does so much of it get into the American newspapers, even the good ones?”
H.L., Mencken, American journalist and satirist, writing in 1927
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