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Harvey Weinstein harassing and abusing young women, a lack of consensus on gun laws after Las Vegas, NFL players protesting during the national anthem, and the vice president protesting against NFL protests — it was another week of dismal revelations and division in our nation. Here are highlights of what we published on the opinion pages on those topics and others.
Perspective
First, a summary of what was in our Sunday Perspective section this week:
Harvey Weinstein and feminism: Washington Post columnist Alyssa Rosenberg wrote that shows that men can buy themselves all sorts of status, including feminist credibility, while nothing women do will ever be good enough.
Trump’s loose lips on nukes: Aaron Blake, who writes for The Washington Post’s blog, wrote that while Donald Trump’s loose chatter about nukes might have been dismissed as campaign bluster and posturing before, , following a report by NBC News.
Tancredo and Bannon: Editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett wrote that Coloradans should see any for what it is: a cynical way to keep the donations coming in and stoke division with little chance of electoral success.
Should Colorado retain PERA? In a point-counterpoint discussion, leaders at two influential organizations debated the future of Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association:
Scott Wasserman, president of the Bell Policy Center, argued that saving PERA and securing pension retirements for 10 percent of Coloradans is .
Joshua Sharf, who manages the PERA Project at the Independence Institute, disagreed, saying Colorado taxpayers are going to be when the pension fails.
Sticking to our roots: In its Sunday editorial, timed to coincide with , the editorial board wrote: As we celebrate our 125th year, significant challenges stalk our noble profession. So where do we go from here? .
Letters to the editor: On the letters page, Denver Post readers tackled several issues. Here are several of their letters:
Park Hill golf course: Vincent Carroll, the former Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News editorial page editor, wrote that under Denver’s plans for the Park Hill golf course.
Try flattery, Secretary Tillerson: Colorado state historian and monthly Denver Post columnist Patty Limerick made a suggestion to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. She suggested Tillerson try to keeping his boss from leading the world to nuclear war.
A writer of migraines: Garrison Keillor bemoaned the decision to award British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro this year’s Nobel Prize for literature: “Once again the … . It’s not a prize for literature, it’s a prize for nihilism.”
Auto industry’s future: Washington Post columnist George F. Will traveled to Detroit last week and reported that the U.S. auto industry has a glamorous past but an .
The opposite of Jane Wyman: Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak wrote that the recent back-and-forth between shows how far we’ve come from the Reagan years, when it was considered bad taste for ex-spouses to dish on each other.
Political double standards: Jon Caldara, a regular Denver Post columnist and president of the Independence Institute, explained about political double standards.
Will Amazon choose Canada? Allan Sloan, a columnist for The Washington Post, predicted that for its second headquarters. He suggested Toronto is attractive to Amazon in ways that the U.S. once was but is no longer under President Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual and anti-Jeff Bezos presidency.
Drawn to the News: Below are the editorial cartoons we featured on the back page of Sunday’s Perspective section, on the topic of Harvey Weinstein’s firing. We also published online.
The past week
Here are highlights from last week’s opinion coverage:
Denver Post editorials:
A new declaration of war: The time has come for Congress to against our new foe, the Islamic State, and against our old enemies, al-Qaeda and the Taliban, that sets a reasonable time limit for the ongoing conflict and is as specific as possible.
Discipline for cops and deputies: We have struggled to make heads or tails of in a way that assigns any semblance of proportionality to the severity of the incident or that would help guide future deputies or officers in their conduct.
When VA doctors do wrong: Following a USA Today report that the Department of Veterans Affairs is from public scrutiny, VA Secretary David Shulkin needs to fix the department’s notification policies.
Scholarship foundation’s success: With the Denver Scholarship Foundation’s longtime CEO departing, it is time to reflect on for thousands of low-income students, and why it works.
Is Trump serious about DACA? President Donald Trump’s renewed insistence on walling off the border to Mexico suggests he’s — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Op-ed columns:
Corker vs. Trump: Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent wrote that Republican Sen. Bob Corker — who feuded with Donald Trump last week on Twitter — confirmed that .
Trump on track to win again: Doug Sosnik, a Democratic political strategist, wrote that despite President Donald Trump’s poll numbers, his base continues to give him a clear path to .
Pence’s protest over protests: After Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game because several players protested during the national anthem, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote that .
False narrative on police and race: Kevin Lawrence, executive director of the Texas Municipal Police Association, argued that since the NFL’s Colin Kaepernick began his protest last year, the conversation about race and policing has been distorted by the national media — and the result is that .
Trump could destroy health care: The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell wrote that President Trump’s will take away protections for pre-existing conditions, increase deductibles, spike premiums, and generally destabilize the individual health insurance market.
Oh, the things you hear! Dom Giordano, a radio host and a Philadelphia Daily News columnist, wrote that even is under fire from the politically correct mob these days.
Tom Petty didn’t back down: Singer-songwriter Gary Jules , who took on the entire music industry, waging a battle for his music rights that changed forever how artists negotiate with record companies.
Blaming victims, not Weinstein: The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri wrote that there is so much in the Harvey Weinstein story to find infuriating and disgusting and sad, but one of the things that gets her most is the injunction to people that “.”
Democrats looking desperate: The Washington Post’s Ed Rogers wrote: Now that the White House is cooperating with Robert Mueller’s investigation and the accusations of Trump-collusion are fading, .
Try a narrow gun measure: Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus wrote that the impulse to tackle too many problems at once is one of the reasons Congress hasn’t succeeded in passing any major in more than a decade — so why not start with a narrow bill like banning bump stocks?
Letters to the editor:
Notable and quotable
“Itap a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”
Sen. Bob Corker, in an interview with The New York Times
The Sound Off, which is emailed to subscribers every Monday, is a roundup of what we’ve been publishing on the opinion pages over the past week. 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 Catherine Rampell, plus guest commentaries, and editorial .
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