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 Vincent Carroll听and Greg Dobbs as well as nationally syndicated columnists like Froma Harrop听and Alexandra Petri, plus guest commentaries, and editorial .
Perspective
First, a summary of what was in our Sunday Perspective section yesterday:
A lesson from Russia:听Judi Beuhrer, who was an editor and reporter for The Moscow Times in the early ’90s, wrote听that听Donald Trump’s attempts to shape and manipulate the news and block access to information 听of Boris Yeltsin鈥檚 insistence of ruling by decree, as his Soviet predecessors did.
Shifting attention:听 why President Trump panicked about Russia probe, wrote Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.
Replacing “repeal and replace”: Steven Brill explained how President Trump can听 without changing the law.
Dirty power plan: In our Sunday editorial, we wrote:听President Trump’s rolling back of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan听will increase emissions;听?
Trump 2.0?听Editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett wrote that unless Donald Trump and gets a new act, we’ll see that he鈥檚 not too big to fail.
Cars vs. cyclists:听With about 10 cyclists dying听each year on Colorado roads, wrote Steve Lipsher, cyclists seem to be听 for careless drivers.
Don’t nix听the NEA: Arguing for continued funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, Janice Sinden of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts听wrote that a federal budget is an emphatic statement of a nation鈥檚 collective .
Urban transportation issues:听Former Denver Post editorial page editor Vincent Carroll asked:听Can Denver enhance its sterile transportation corridors ?
Why Republicans fail:听Congress鈥� debacle on health care is only the of how Republicans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, wrote Jon Caldara.
On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
Little dignity in coal:听Froma Harrop wrote that President Trump’s Oval Office signing ceremony, where he repealed the Clean Power Plan听and was flanked by coal miners, was .
Saving Colorado coal:听Stan Dempsey,听president of the Colorado Mining Association, Trump’s order, saying听Colorado coal was saved from the costly听Clean Power Plan.
Reforming the filibuster:听George F. Will wrote that the Senate’s coming confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will inadvertently improve the Senate — if Republicans are provoked to thoroughly .
Jared of all trades:听Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri wrote: Every day, it seems, expands a little. Restore peace to the Middle East, spin Trumpcare into gold,听build an un-climbable wall using no money at all, fix the opioid epidemic …
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 the Republicans’ attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Art:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
Welcome back, oil and gas: As oil and gas drilling in Colorado, concerned residents should demand the best safeguards just as the industry should continue to demand access to the resources that it legally owns or that can be responsibly taken on federal lands.
Just say no, Sen. Gardner: If the Democrats dig in against Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Senate Republicans by using the “nuclear option.” It would be doing a judge of Gorsuch鈥檚 caliber — and the nation — a terrible disservice.
Just say no, Sen. Bennet:听A week听earlier, we urged Senate Democrats to to听prevent Gorsuch’s confirmation. We are heartened to learn听today that Sen. Michael Bennet any filibuster.
Fund study of aid in dying: Republicans on the Colorado legislature’s Joint Budget Committee were for a study that would allow Colorado’s aid-in-dying law — which was听approved by 65 percent of state voters in November — to go into effect.
Sessions and sanctuary cities: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ comments regarding so-called sanctuary cities — specifically Denver — and run counter to the administration’s stated goal of improving听public safety.
When “I alone can fix it” fails:听If President Donald Trump the deal-maker hopes to have much success with his ambitious agenda, he will need to he needs to make deals and get the job done.
Op-ed columns:
Baseball the way it oughta be: On opening day for most major-league teams, Greg Dobbs wrote about his former colleague Harry Reasoner’s adage that听鈥淏aseball isn鈥檛 baseball .鈥�
Reform family leave:听Denver Post columnist Megan Schrader wrote that听America is failing parents and infants by not offering .
Paying to tweet: Bloomberg View columnist Virginia Postrel offered her two cents on .
Reading the tea leaves: Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post predicted that with the failure of the GOP health care bill,听the nation could actually be heading toward a system.
Forgetting the forgotten man?听E.J. Dionne Jr. of The Washington Post asked: to the interests of the working class? Weren鈥檛 they supposed to be front and center in the Trump administration?
Roses are red …听For Poetry Month (April), Garrison Keillor — who reads poetry on his daily Writers Almanac podcast and — explained听 for someone you dearly love.
Caucus without a cause: In blocking the American Health Care Act, the Freedom Caucus , wrote Marc A. Thiessen of The Washington Post.
A messenger for Melania:听Kara Alaimo, who teaches public relations at听Hofstra University, wrote that听Melania Trump holds a staggering amount of potential power to improve both her own reputation and the world — but she really needs to .
Moving backward on financial security: Guest columnist Scott Wasserman, president of the Bell Policy Center, wrote: As the Trump administration weakens Dodd-Frank, to be a backstop, making sure citizens can protect themselves in a dog-eat-dog world.
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“Every day, it seems, Jared Kushner鈥檚 portfolio of responsibilities expands a little. First, it was merely to restore peace to the Middle East. …Then he started acting like a special envoy to Mexico and China. Now he must also run government like a business?听Maybe it抖阴ap not that Kushner is exceptionally competent. Maybe the goddess Hera just hates him.”
Alexandra Petri, The Washington Post
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