While dashboard is great, hopefully even more federal cuts info is coming
Re: “Dashboard shows how much money Colorado has lost from U.S. cuts,” June 18 news story
I’m very glad to see the governor’s office providing information that has been so difficult to obtain from the federal government. It’s going to be a very helpful tool for all of us, but especially those in government leadership positions (no matter their political affiliation), to understand the home-based ramifications of the decisions coming from the White House.
Because I served as the former Dean of CU Denver’s School of Education and Human Development, I’m aware of some cuts in K-12 and higher education and hope that the next iteration of the dashboard will include cuts from the Department of Education.
Also, because I’m volunteering in the world of climate change and am aware of impending cuts to green energy that aren’t yet represented in the dashboard, I hope the next iteration will include the Department of Energy. Thank you to the governor for collating and publishing the information and to Attorney General Phil Weiser for spearheading lawsuits that have resulted in fewer cuts (at least thus far) than might have transpired. What has been published to date on the dashboard is likely only the tip of the iceberg.
Lynn K. Rhodes Fritz, Lakewood
Abandoning civil discourse for ‘ad hominem attacks’
Language matters and often precedes action. How we address others sets the tone of civility, a lesson we teach school children, a lesson that should be lifelong.
Somehow the basic tenets of civil discourse no longer count for some. President Donald Trump continues to call the governor of California “Newscum.” Trump’s mouthpieces in the media, personalities I listen to regularly, describe political opponents as “leftist commies,” “libtards,” “deranged snowflake lunatics,” “anti-American degenerate scum.” I even hear these terms echoed by family members who despise the left. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is routinely referred to as Pocahontas. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been called “Witless,” and the list goes on.
Enter the wannabe patriot dealing with some perversion of the psyche. He connects his skewed dots and decides to perform a “patriotic” act by eliminating the problem. In short, the shootings of the state representatives in Minnesota, the shooting at the “No Kings” rally in Salt Lake City, the hammer blow suffered by Paul Pelosi, and other such acts lie squarely in the laps of the likes of Trump, Rep. Lauren Boebert, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and others of their ilk who continue to malign and dehumanize political opposition.
Where there should be discourse, we have vicious, ad hominem attacks. The result is obvious: a drastic escalation of violence fueled by people with a microphone. The blood from political vigilantism in this “land of the free” is on their hands. And lips.
Bob Giusto, Lakewood
We get it. Rockies losses are piling up
By now, everyone who follows Major League Baseball knows that the Rockies are on a pace to set a record for losses in one season.
Why? Because your writers remind us after every game.
Why not let that thought go for a while? Or better, until it actually happens?
Craig Marshall Smith, Highlands Ranch
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