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perspective during this challenging time. But with the County’s stay-athome order in place, we will publish our content exclusively online during the weeks of April 2, 9 and 16. Just log on to boulderweekly.com and select the Digital Issue button at the upper right to read the magazine exactly as it would appear in print. We will resume publishing our print edition just as soon as we have cooled down this dragon.

Finally, I want to make you aware of a new Membership Program we are rolling out this week. Restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, and arts and entertainment events make up a significant percentage of our advertisers, and the financial crisis being faced by those businesses, and others, is almost as significant as the health crisis we find ourselves in the midst of. Consequently, much of the revenue we receive from these businesses has been suddenly lost, thereby threatening our ability to provide the award-winning content we have offered to our community week-in and week-out for more than 26 years. These local businesses are our partners, and we are in this with them. So, please support them in any way you can, and please consider supporting our work by becoming a Boulder Weekly Member. You can sign up now at boulderweekly.com. A dragon with matches is a metaphor, but this new virus is real. Your personal pail of water is needed right now, so please give some thought to what you can contribute. You can email me at publisher@ boulderweekly.com with your ideas, and we will help you implement them in any way we can. Together we can ensure that we come out of this episode with the feeling that we did everything we could, and that feeling will last a lifetime.

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Lower tax burden during this unprecedented time

Unprecedented times require unprecedented measures. We are seeing measures throughout the state and country to protect our health and economy. With 18% or more (so far) of households suffering job loss and many businesses shut down or failing, this is a plea for property taxes to be waived. We don’t want families choosing between food and medicine or paying property taxes. Many of the government facilities and services are currently closed during this time so I propose that county governments waive property taxes for as long as the federal government is waiving student loan interest to allow families and businesses to get back on their feet after this devastating economic time.

If you agree with me, please contact your county assessor’s office, your county officials, your state legislators and Governor Polis.

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On the economy

In Milton Friedman’s consumer, supply-side, “trickle down” politicoeconomic system, a healthy economy is one in which the world’s wealth is concentrated in corporate and monied hands, while the majority of people, happy with affordable goods and distractions are, in effect, sentenced to “community service” wages, some higher, some lower depending on their value as “human capital.” What COVID-19 and climate change have exposed is that public and environmental health cannot be shortchanged by the pursuit of power and wealth. The global economy, in theory and practice, rests on Friedman’s thesis of the necessity of concentrated wealth and cheap labor. Its weak link is its reliance on the availability of “human capital” as both supplier and consumer. When public health breaks down, be it physical, mental or environmental, the network collapses. The human element cannot be so openly deemed secondary. Robert Porath/Boulder

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