Letters to the Editor

JM Schell
Arvada

That is the question:In reference to Alan Prendergast's "Bruce Talk," in the January 30 issue, I feel compelled to let my thoughts be known.

I am so sick and tired of Douglas Bruce and, for that matter, John Andrews, in their constant push to shove constitutional amendments down our throats, no matter what the economic situation of the time is. In Colorado's current budgetary crisis, a time when more than $850 million is being cut, with another $800 million for the upcoming year to be cut next, it absolutely sickens me that TABOR will not be completely overhauled in the current legislative session. I am not opposed to the electorate voting on all tax increases. However, I can't stand the fact that there is no rainy-day fund, and I really am disgusted by the ratchet-down effect of the growth limitations on the budget. Whenever the "baseline" falls, any growth has to start again from that baseline, even if it was much lower due to economic problems of the time.

I am one of a group of people who are in the process of forming a new think-tank organization called "World Class Colorado," devoted to overhauling TABOR as well as trying to develop a regional tax-collection system, thereby reducing or eliminating the sales-tax wars that currently exist between cities.

Aaron Rever
Lakewood

A word to the wives:Regarding Jason Sheehan's February 20 "Remembrance of Things Pasta," I must ask why he addresses only men. How sexist of him to suggest that readers "bring the wife" for lunch. Does he assume all of his readers are men? Has he never been treated to a meal out by his wife or (former) girlfriend? Or do his "little ladies" wait demurely at home for his invitation only?

But it doesn't stop there. In the same issue's Bite Me, he refers to the Cooking School of the Rockies as a place that will "turn a boy into a man" in just 24 weeks. Are women not allowed to attend this school, or is Jason (once again) proving himself to be a chauvinistic Neanderthal?

I've steered clear of the controversy over Jason until now, but I have to say that I'm not particularly enamored of his writing and reviewing style. It's not terrible; it's just not up to the high professional standards of your former food writer. She mostly wrote about food. He mostly writes about himself.

Now I see that he apparently doesn't care whether I (a woman) even reads his column. Do you, Jason?

Carol Carpenter
Denver