Author: Simon Lomax | The Center Square
-

OPINION | Ideology, reality collide over ‘public option’
—
by
Simon Lomax At the risk of sounding like a washed-up old reporter, I remember a time when politicians spent more time worrying about winning general elections than winning primaries. I left the newsroom almost 10 years ago, and since then, the ideological demands of party activists and donors have grown so loud that many elected…
-

Treating health care’s heroes like villains
—
by
Simon Lomax “No good deed goes unpunished,” the American writer and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce once said. It’s a classic political axiom, and sadly, it’s happening right now in the Colorado legislature to the health care heroes and vaccine miracle workers who have been fighting COVID-19 for more than a year. The pandemic isn’t over,…


