Polis can’t bully cities into making housing more affordable (Letters)
Polis can t bully cities into making housing more affordable Re Housing laws Preponderance cities make good faith efforts to comply state says Oct news story Gov Jared Polis is starting to sound more and more like President Trump His plan to punish those cities that don t agree with his more more more housing guidelines is just petty Trump-like vengeance And it s a Trump-like diversion from the underlying failure of this plan In simple terms this advancement first procedures never had a solid basis in the housing region for the Denver area Any decent look would have shown that the long-term demand is far too great to expect prices to magically come down and stay down Thus the intelligent plan would have been to acknowledge this fact and also that adding too a multitude of people will destroy our quality of life Instead require a essential portion of new housing to be permanently affordable and to force new business enhancement to pay for housing for workers whose jobs would not pay enough to meet the arena prices That would have provided more affordable housing while preserving selected of Colorado s quality of life But apparently it is not in accord with Polis bully the domain mindset Steve Pomerance Boulder Let s compare Maria Corina Machado to Trump Re Opposition leader wins Peace Prize Oct news story The symmetry could hardly be more appropriate the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to a Venezuelan woman fighting for the democratic rights of her people while our president feels slighted by the Nobel committee as he and his Republican colleagues work systematically to dismantle our American democracy Maria Corina Machado lives in hiding as she voices opposition to autocrats while on the streets of our cities heavily armed agents and soldiers wear masks as they carry out what even they must perceive as a legally questionable mission The ironies write themselves Putin advocates for Trump as a champion of peace while our citizenry is forced to imagine a Venezuelan scenario here at home Dan Welte Highlands Ranch DIA executives should pay back their ticket costs Re Ethics board clears DIA leader over flight costs appalled by conference Oct news story Bravo to The Post for bringing the article of the DIA Infamous Nine to the public Once again the DIA personnel stepped on their common sense thought process It is easy to spend money when it is not yours Very easy Stakeholders the taxpayers are there to pay the bills No issue Until the scrutiny by The Post brought the wrong to light What would be the right thing to do is for each of the Infamous Nine to take out their check books and reimburse the taxpayers the difference between their business class and first class tickets and what the price was for coach class and reimburse the taxpayers While the County and City of Denver are going through deep cuts in funds and services you have nine leaders enjoying the good life Infamous Nine do things right and do the right thing Related Articles Denver council rejects proposal to buy a shuttered downtown auto shop to develop affordable housing Colorado envisioned a renewable vigor park near Golden Neighbors don t like what might get built instead Ballot Issues A through E ask voters to approve million for projects in Vibrant Denver bond package Two Denver suburbs take different paths as residents face housing crunch We can manage it but just barely -story office building to be converted into housing in Denver s Capitol Hill Jay Weinstein Denver The dangers of physician-assisted suicide normalization Re Here s how we prevent every youth suicide Oct commentary I appreciate Dr Reinecke s insight into the key factors that trigger and the key approaches that ameliorate the youth suicide emergency in America However he skirts around one issue He notes that suicide becomes a cure an option a source of relief He fails to draw a line between the growing acceptance of assisted suicide in Colorado and other states and the epidemic of youth suicide nationally When stories of people ending their lives through assisted suicide are glorified in the media and in our daily conversations we send the message that suicide is indeed a rationale and perhaps even a preferred answer to our physical and or existential suffering This is a very dangerous perspective that has deadly reverberations in our vulnerable youth Tom Perille Englewood Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail
