The all-star game might have given downtown Denver a brief reprieve, but it did nothing to remove the reality of the ongoing decline of Denver.
The public’s disdain for broad-based lockdowns, even for mask mandates, after the freedom that was conveniently on display for the All-Star Game, simply won’t allow for such measures.
If Mayor Hancock wants to help black families advance in his city, racial favoritism and wealth redistribution aren’t answers. Opportunity is.
The bitter irony is that should Denver ban concealed-carry, those who voted for this bill will have made such an attack all the more likely, and will be making Jewish life in our city and state more precarious.
We must make our individual decisions in the context of the viral spread and the often-disastrous government responses to the pandemic.
Mayor Hancock has little time for passed out drunks on our property in a city of passed out drunks.
It took direct criticism from former Republican Gov. Bill Owens for Polis to move from dismissing the Capitol carnage as “spray paint that can be cleaned” to finally condemning the destruction.
Today’s “progressive” Democrat leaders appear paralyzed by fear, more concerned with appeasing anarchists than with protecting this once-great city.
“This isn’t a recommendation anymore,” said Hancock. “If you’re sick, stay home. If you’re not sick, stay home.”
Workers earning more money aren’t going to suddenly find less money more appealing, and there’s virtually no pool of chronically unemployed people to draw from.
It would usher in the sort of squalid, quasi-permanent encampments on public property that have become a problem for cities such as Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
The good news is Mayor Hancock is shocked to learn that the city’s pro-transit, anti-auto policies haven’t worked. The bad news is that his response is to double-down on those policies.
