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 Chuck Plunkett 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:
What’s next on health care? Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote: With the collapse of the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, the GOP is confronted with the question of what to do next, if anything, on health care. But that’s .
Bipartisan blame: Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle wrote: Both parties are for the health care mess we are now in. But neither party looks likely to take responsibility for its own failures, much less for fixing the problem.
What would Lincoln think? Sidney Blumenthal wondered: What would the 16th president have thought of Donald Trump? We can find clues in , in which he criticized attacks on the free press.
A warning from Turkey: Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post’s editorial page editor, wrote: is an extreme result of what happens when populist movements and the opportunist politicians who enthrall them lose sight of what’s important.
Is it a tax hike? In its Sunday editorial, the editorial board discussed Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed $937 million bond plan, and asked the question: (The answer: Yes and no — but mostly yes.)
Letters to the editor: On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
Please, support Children’s: Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute and a Denver Post columnist, urged readers to , which was there for him when his late daughter developed a brain tumor and when his son was born with Down syndrome.
Feeling displaced? Suck it up: Post columnist Diane Carman , Charlie Carman, and his will to succeed despite modernization disrupting his career path — and she suggested today’s displaced workers adopt a similar attitude.
Letter from Grand Junction: Guest commentator Megan Fromm responded to a recent article in The New Yorker about the ways Donald Trump is transforming rural America. She wrote that the narrative of “Trump’s America” in rural Colorado is bleak — .
Disappointed by judge: Deborah Avant, a professor at the University of Denver, explained how a Denver judge’s privilege during a name-change hearing.
Ominous event in Antarctica: Tim Lydon of Writers on the Range warned that the sheering of an iceberg in Antarctica shows and foreshadows what scientists warn will occur if humanity does not quickly curb fossil fuel emissions.
18 years, not life: Ben Feuer, who is chairman of a law firm that practices before the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that Supreme Court justices should be limited to on the court.
Hobby Lobby’s smuggling: Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, wrote that Hobby Lobby’s smuggling of ancient Iraqi artifacts is making cultural preservation .
The wild blue yonder? Reporting from Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, George F. Will wrote that America’s security challenges than new technologies can be conceived, designed, approved, built and deployed.
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 the Republican health care bill’s failure:
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
Music fest is a hole in one: A proposed music festival at Denver’s Overland Park Golf Course hosted by one of the country’s hippest promoters sounds fun, and in the Mile High City’s cap.
Share the road, share the tax: We support a state legislator’s idea of creating that would pay for improving Colorado’s biking infrastructure.
What’s in a name? Money: Should the city for the Colorado Convention Center and the Denver Performing Arts Complex? Yes — in this case, the money they would generate offsets any negative.
Obamacare lives. Thanks, GOP: With Republicans’ failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the party will now work with Democrats to .
Ditch the delay: The Colorado Department of Transportation is doing things right as it prepares to through northeast Denver and drop it below grade so a cap can reunite communities.
Op-ed columns:
A giant leap backward: Denver Post columnist Greg Dobbs compared America on July 20, 1969, with America on July 20, 2017. He wrote that 48 years after our moon landing, it must be noted that when it comes to our pride in our nation and others’ respect for it, we are currently at a .
Looking out for the little guy? Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell wrote: The idea of giving consumers the choice to participate in a court of law — a right enshrined in the Seventh Amendment — leaves some .
Disloyalty begets disloyalty: Jennifer Rubin, a Washington Post blogger, wrote that Donald Trump is , the glue that holds political parties, alliances and administrations together.
Don’t go, Jeff Sessions: Conservative columnist Ed Rogers wrote: President Donald Trump’s inappropriate criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was almost an invitation for him to resign. The attorney general — and other important people in the Trump administration — .
John McCain’s living legacy: Carter Eskew, who worked on Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, wrote: If Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., were to die tomorrow, his legacy as a patriot, hero and maverick would be secure, but I don’t think history is done with him yet. I think his may lie ahead.
Ditch the ditch: Kyle Zeppelin, a Denver developer, and Candi CdeBaca, co-founder of the Cross Community Coalition, wrote that widening I-70 in northeast Denver is a — as well as poor urban planning.
Last of the pygmy mastodons: Garrison Keillor wrote about the news that certain animals are approaching extinction — including giraffes, lions and the , a species that was extinguished long ago but there is still one left.
Robots in the classroom: Bloomberg View columnist Tyler Cowen explained why it would make sense to America’s schoolkids.
If Hillary had won: Daniel W. Drezner, a professor at Tufts University, asked: Would 2017 look the same under ?
Killing the GOP: Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and a recent Twitter target of the president, wrote that Donald Trump is .
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“Obamacare is now in worse shape than ever. And Obamacare was not exactly in good shape before. Obamacare was, in fact, wheezing and sweat-soaked every time it had to walk from the couch to the fridge.”
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View columnist
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