Author: Joshua Sharf
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COUNTERPOINT | Mask mandates haven’t worked yet, won’t this time
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Joshua Sharf In early 2020, a photo of football fans wearing masks during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic circulated widely. Even 100 years ago, people said, they knew that masks work. That photograph isn’t proof of 1918’s wisdom, but rather of 2020’s ignorance. In 1920, the American Journal of Public Health published a study asking…
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PERA reform? House version is a disaster waiting to happen
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On April 16, the Colorado House Finance Committee considered Senate Bill18-200, the bipartisan effort to reform and rescue the state’s deeply troubled public pension system (PERA). Unfortunately, what came in to committee as a bill to modestly move the ball forward on reform and shore up the plan’s finances left committee as a plan to…
