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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 Megan Schrader and Greg Dobbs as well as nationally syndicated columnists like George F. Will and Catherine Rampell, plus guest commentaries, and editorial .
Perspective
First, a summary of what was in our Sunday Perspective section this week:
A Christian nation? Historian Sam Haselby wrote that the range of views on what the role of religion in American life should be since the Revolutionary generation debated the matter.
A richer discussion about inequality: Steven Pearlstein, a Washington Post business and economics writer, wrote: Inequality may well be the . But is it inequality of income we care about or inequality of opportunity? And what is opportunity?
A chance to cripple solar: Mark Jaffe, a former Denver Post reporter who writes about energy issues, wrote: This fall, President Donald Trump may have a American carbon-reduction and renewable-energy efforts. Imposing a tariff on solar imports could cost thousands of jobs.
Voter records are public records: In its Sunday editorial, The Post’s editorial board that in Colorado, like most states, why someone wants a public record is almost always irrelevant; all that matters is that the record is public.
Letters to the editor: On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
Do the math, Senator: Denver Post columnist Diane Carman argued that Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., needs to recognize that to make health care work. Otherwise the numbers simply don’t compute.
Trump outwrestled media: Talk radio host and columnist Jon Caldara wrote that when President Trump posted an anti-media meme — the one showing him wrestling CNN — the media served as the , delivering it far and wide.
Fraternity hazing deaths: Former Colorado first lady Dottie Lamm asked: When it comes to fraternity hazing, should we to prevent the disease from metastasizing?
Hidden life of special districts: Robert Grey discusses his experience learning about — and joining the boards of — some of the in his neighborhood, the Union Station neighborhood in downtown Denver.
Five Points is a model: John Hayden, president of Curtis Park Neighbors, wrote that Denver’s Five Points area has shown that a mixed-use, economically and culturally diverse community is a .
A pair of superheroes: Tribune News Service columnist Ann McFeatters wrote: In this summer of great political discontent, I find myself fascinated and buoyed by .
A blind man walks into a hotel … Garrison Keillor his latest yard — aka op-ed column — with this: “Went in for eye surgery the other day, which reminded me of an old wheeze of a joke, which I told to people as they prepared the prisoner for execution.”
First comes love, then comes marriage … The Washington Post’s George F. Will discussed the which fewer young Americans are following. Here’s the sequence: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children.
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 North Korea’s recent missile launch test:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
DIA plan still worth pursuing: We stand by our claim that Denver International Airport’s plan to redevelop the Great Hall , and hope it remains on schedule, but welcome any reasonable cost savings the airlines can exact.
You, too, can hold government accountable: As technology advances, it has become easier for the public to be watchdogs of their own government. The Fourth Estate can no longer do it alone. .
Reject recall in Broomfield: What is happening in Broomfield is to make a political statement rather than recall’s intended purpose of removing hooligans from office.
Fix PERA — now: The fiscal health of Colorado’s is now so alarming that even the pension’s management has discarded its rose-colored glasses.
Reasons to celebrate on the 4th: Though there are some cracks in the American system, to celebrate what is working. Here’s to finding some common ground as we gather around the grill.
Op-ed columns:
Choosing the best school: Denver Post editorial writer and columnist Megan Schrader wrote that the seemingly harmless act of moving to a neighborhood with a high-performing school perpetuates that exist in schools across the country.
The state of the Islamic State: Denver Post columnist and former ABC News foreign correspondent Greg Dobbs wrote: You will hear that the Islamic State is on the run. But . It is not subject to conventional military defeat. It can turn defeat into victory.
Trump and North Korea: The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman wrote that with North Korea, President Trump may be about to face his first .
My Trump-filled European vacation: Doyle McManus, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, reported that when he went on vacation to Europe this summer, was Donald Trump.
Open records in the digital era: A bipartisan trio of Colorado legislators explained why they sponsored a bill to .
Why GOP health care plans will fail: Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell wrote: Sometimes, in some weird markets, too much consumer choice can be a bad thing. , health insurance happens to be one of those weird markets.
Blood donation: Max Ryan Fisher, editor in chief of Italian America magazine and a blood donor at Children’s National Medical Center, wrote: Your blood could be worth a lot — and you should .
Making America great again? Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky explained how Vladimir Putin’s election meddling can .
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“A man walked by the insane asylum and heard the inmates shouting, ‘Twenty-one! Twenty-one!’ They sounded ecstatic and he stopped to have a look. He put his eye to a hole in the fence and they poked him in the eye with a sharp stick and yelled, ‘Twenty-two! Twenty-two!’ “
Garrison Keillor, syndicated columnist
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