Yes, let¶¶Ņõap look at San Franciscoās minimum wage hike
Re: āMinimum wage fallout,ā Sept. 30 letter to the editor
This letter in The Denver Post extolling the virtues of a significant minimum wage hike in Denver by explaining how such hikes in San Francisco have worked out well made me wonder about that claim. So I found a San Francisco Chronicle article from Sept. 6, 2018, that undercuts its own rosy headline (āBay Area minimum wage rise hasnāt meant restaurant job losses, study saysā).
In it, reporter Justin Phillips writes: āA Harvard Business School study last year based on Yelp data showed that 8.7 percent of San Francisco restaurants that had been open at the start of 2016 closed by that December. But a direct link between minimum wage and layoffs has not unequivocally been established,ā and that āover the past few years, restaurants have been recalibrating business models ā resulting in an influx of fast-casual and counter-service options ā while cutting back on staff.ā
As an example of this, Phillips cited the case of Sonās Addition, a restaurant that āopened in 2017 with a staff of 29. Today the number is 17. The decrease is in part natural staff attrition, but the other factor, according to chef and co-owner Nick Cobarruvias, is wage costs.ā Perhaps the letter writer is right about supporting a minimum-wage hike, but doing so by holding up San Francisco as an exemplar of the practice is not how Iād go about it.
Steve Oelrich, Denver
Disgusted by guvās office tactics
Re: āGov. Polisā office asks 2 small newspapers to remove stories,ā Sept. 27 news story
I was very disappointed and disgusted to read the report from Anna Staver about your āstrange storyā in this morningās Denver Post.
My sense and sincere hope is that the governorās office has lost a mostly left-wing ally in The Denver Post with its characterization of the Koch brothersā political organization and rural newspapers as less than credible or worthy. You were elected to represent all of Colorado, not just the loony, lefty, nonsensical opinions of the progressives.
Shame on you for ever suggesting rural publications or the Koch brothersā actions are any less credible than the preponderance of āfake newsā from your left-wing allies at major publications.
Elections used to determine all peoplesā representatives. However, many of your actions since elected just confirm that Coloradoās current duly elected majorities are just destructive voices for ideologies that while perhaps may be a majority, certainly do not represent a large and growing portion of the Colorado electorate.
Chuck Lawson, Greenwood Village
Companies take note of climate
Re: āBall Corp., Vail Resorts, DaVita make commitment to renewable energy,ā Sept. 13 news story
It is excellent news that Ball Corp., Vail Resorts and DaVita Kidney Care are each responding to their operationsā impact on their carbon footprint. Hopefully more firms will examine their operations with a view to effecting similar changes.
Hopefully congressmen Scott Tipton, Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn become thoughtful advocates to the impact of carbon dioxide emissions. I thank those who are moving in the direction of reducing carbon dioxide emissions using renewable power sources.
On behalf of my great-grandchildren, who cannot yet vote but will be most affected by the successful outcome of such efforts, I thank you.
James Maiden, Westminster
