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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:
War with China? Albert R. Hunt reading Graham Allison’s “Destined for War: Can American and China escape Thucydides’s Trap?” and warned: “Itap going to scare the hell out of you.”
Rocky Flats refuge: Vincent Carroll questioned critics who believe the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge should be shuttered to the public for all time, despite the fact that a staggering number of air, water and soil samples show .
Google in the schools: Bloomberg View’s Cathy O’Neil argued that is no way to improve our educational system. Although they undoubtedly mean well, we should demand more accountability.
Packed like sardines: Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema bemoaned restaurants cramming tables — and therefore customers — too close to one another, which he considers .
Wake-up call for pot regulators: In its Sunday editorial, the editorial board warned that Colorado’s efforts to ensure that our legal cannabis industry remains above suspicion of black market shenanigans have .
Letters to the editor: On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
“I love you more, Mr. President”: Alexandra Petri, who writes The Washington Post’s ComPost blog, delivered a of last Monday’s meeting of President Trump and his full Cabinet.
Inappropriate language: Patty Limerick, Colorado’s state historian and a regular Denver Post columnist, urged everyone to that she believes has been used so much that it is perishing from fatigue.
Trump vs. Trump: Denver Post columnist and constitutional scholar Mario Nicolais wrote that with an endless Internet archive of tweets, stump speeches and campaign missives at their fingertips, Donald Trump’s opponents have a to fight him in court.
College savings: Ali Mickelson, director of legislative and tax policy at the Colorado Fiscal Institute, wrote that Colorado’s 529 program should help .
Save the coal miners: Jacob Smith, the former mayor of Golden and a former energy policy staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders, wrote that for coal miners and their families, the transition to renewable energy has .
History repeating: Following last Wednesday’s shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise at a baseball field in Virginia, Yale professor Joanne B. Freeman recounted the of violence involving members of Congress
Take a look in a book: Washington Post columnist Esther J. Cepeda suggested that instead of heading to the movies this summer, you should read one of several books that she thinks are .
Repeal Davis-Bacon: George F. Will of The Washington Post urged repeal of the federal , saying demolition of the outdated 1931 law would make building much cheaper and save taxpayers billions of dollars.
Drawn to the News: 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 Fathers Day 2017:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
Trashing nature: The heavy use of Colorado’s natural splendor is nothing to bemoan — it should be celebrated. But is something we all need to be vigilant about.
Lack of U.S. attorneys: President Trump has left a dismaying number of federal offices unfilled, but most troubling is that — including Colorado’s — remain vacant.
After Alexandria: Violence and radicalization know no political party, religion, race or gender. Let’s not point fingers in times like these and instead .
CU abuse case: After the initial botched handling of a domestic abuse case, the University of Colorado to get a full account of what had occurred and to hold those who had done wrong accountable.
Deception at DPD? We hope an external investigation of a situation involving the Denver Police Department’s chief and deputy chief can quickly resolve the question of whether they attempted to intentionally .
Op-ed columns:
A new moonshot: Denver Post columnist and editorial writer Megan Schrader wrote that between American students from poor vs. wealthy families ought to be just as important as the 1960s-era attempt to go to the moon.
Point … Greg Dobbs, a former ABC News correspondent, , who had been criticized for interviewing Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones. Dobbs urged Kelly to ask Jones the hard questions and not let him off the hook, because the public will be benefit from it.
Counterpoint … Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan argued that exposing Alex Jones as a dangerous kook is crucial, but Megyn Kelly’s interview .
America’s pastime: Denver writer Colin St. John wrote that the attack on a congressional baseball practice in Virginia was an attack on .
Of course he did: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank wrote that of course Donald Trump — thatap always been his strategy.
Opioids vs. marijuana: Syndicated columnist Froma Harrop wrote: The U.S. has an , and the Trump administration is cracking down on … pot?
Travel ban loss: Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, responding to a federal appeals court’s ruling against the latest version of Trump’s travel ban, wrote that the president’s opponents must be .
Not feeling the Bern: Bloomberg View’s Ramesh Ponnuru wrote that Sen. Bernie Sanders should not be using Senate proceedings to sift through theological claims, especially since he appears to be .
Maybe it’s the meatballs: Joe Nocera explained how Sweden convinced essentially all of its citizens to by incentivizing a substitute.
Method to madness? Tyler Cowen of Bloomberg View suggested there may be a strategic reason for .
Letters to the editor:
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