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Baghdad by the Rockies loses its charm

By Paul Danish

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s Enrico Fermi once remarked, “Where is everybody?”

According to the latest estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019 the City of Boulder lost population for the third year in a row.

The drop isn’t large. Boulder’s population in 2016 was 107,128; after declines in 2017, 2018 and 2019, it was 105,673, a contraction of 1,455 residents. But that was enough to drop Boulder from 11th to 12th place on the list of Colorado’s largest cities. Greeley, which had been number 12, moved up to number 11.

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mates are for July to July, so the 2019 figure for Boulder’s population is what it was estimated to be as of July 1, 2019.)

Unsurprisingly, Boulder Mayor Sam Weaver and Chamber of Commerce CEO John Tayer see the decline as a bug, not a feature. It’s always like that with growth junkies.

And they think they know what caused it: the geezer-fication of the population (along with high housing costs, of course).

“When a population is aging,” Mayor Sam told the Camera, “you have fewer young people in the home, so that could be one factor. As we get old and MAY 28, 2020

people retire and their kids move away, that’s one way you get population decrease.”

Which is kind of reminiscent of Calvin Coolidge’s most memorable economic insight: “When people are out of work, unemployment results.”

And Hizzoner thinks he knows just what it will take to reverse the decline: build some more of the latter-day tenements that the city fathers and mothers are shoehorning into every available nook and cranny in the city while chanting the shibboleths of “affordability” and “diversity.”

Weaver told the Camera that “mixed-use” projects such as the S’park development near 30th and Valmont and The Reve and Boulder Junction projects at 30th and Pearl could help turn the exodus around.

He said the developers of those see DANISH PLAN Page 6

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Trump-connected lobbyists are cashing in on COVID-19 relief

By Chris Saeger

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s millions of Americans continue to get sick and lose their jobs, and with more than 100,000 dead as a result of the novel coronavirus, President Donald Trump’s allies are exploiting the public health and financial crisis to cash in.

Lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (BHFS), the former employer of Trump’s Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, has reported taking over $10 million to lobby for COVID19 bailouts amid an influx of new clients.

BHFS has enjoyed increased business from lobbying clients seeking to influence the president since his election. After Bernhardt started at the Department of the Interior, BHFS quadrupled its business lobbying with the Interior. Bernhardt has since come under frequent criticism for presiding over decisions that consistently benefit his former lobbying clients — ostensibly violating ethics pledges and conflict-of-interest concerns.

In Colorado, the firm has been representing Rocky Mountain Resources in its controversial Glenwood Springs Mine expansion project. Chad Brownstein, who until recently was the CEO of Rocky Mountain Resources, is also the son of Norm Brownstein, chairman of BHFS. It also appears that the firm may have been able to buy some influence with Senator Cory Gardner: Since receiving nearly $60,000 from BHFS in campaign donations, Senator Gardner has remained silent on the Rocky Mountain Resources Quarry expansion, even though his constituents have asked for his help fighting against it.

BHFS’ COVID-19 business boom comes as the Trump administration has proved unreliable in issuing financial relief to companies suffering from the economic collapse. The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) left small business owners struggling to survive while bailing out large corporations.

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corporation that was previously represented by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and a coal company represented by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt scored major federal funding from the PPP, while small mom-and-pop businesses were left in the cold.

This is why Americans overwhelmingly support more stringent requirements on which businesses receive public bailout funds, according to a recent Accountable.US poll. The poll also found that 90% of Americans believe there should be more transparency in future government bailouts. Since the administration has proven itself untrustworthy, it’s up to Congress to put these guardrails in place when it passes the next stimulus package.

Trump administration officials are public servants — paid with our taxpayer dollars — and are supposed to be serving the American public. When public officials serve the president’s political allies instead of the American people, they direct critical resources away from those who need them.

When K Street lobbyists get a massive influx of new clients as companies try to influence the government’s response to COVID-19, special interests become the ones shaping public policy.

As a result, government funding and resources get redirected away from average Americans who don’t have insider access to the administration.

Watchdog groups across the country, including Accountable.US, are closely tracking the administration’s response to the coronavirus and are continuing to expose the bottomless pit of malfeasance and corruption. It is imperative — always, and especially during these uncertain times — that the government watches out for Main Street in Colorado and across the country, not K Street.

Chris Saeger is the director of strategic initiatives at Accountable.US, a nonpartisan watchdog group that investigates special-interest influence on politicians.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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projects are targeting a demographic that includes Google and Apple tech employees.

“I think as those mixed-use developments continue to come online... we might see those [population] numbers stabilize or reverse because people who are going to move into those mixed-use developments are going to be younger, typically,” he said.

Added Chamber CEO Tayer: “While it’s true that there are some exciting new redevelopment projects occurring, we as the Boulder Chamber are going to continue to advocate for the exploration of redevelopment opportunities in underutilized areas of our community that would create wonderful, vibrant, mixed-use subcommunities.

“It’s fair to assume that we’re seeing that aging of the population and that there are fewer young residents and families that are able to afford Boulder.”

Or want to buy what it has to offer, maybe.

Here’s an alternative explanation for why millennials and Gen Zs, and even Gen Xers are voting with their feet on living in Boulder: Maybe the city isn’t as attractive a place to live as it used to be, due to its hell-for-leather densification.

Maybe people perusing mixed-use projects at 30th and Pearl and 30th and Valmont fail to see the charm of living next to streets that collectively carry 20to 30,000 vehicle trips a day past their putative future homes.

The ongoing densification of Boulder isn’t producing “wonderful, vibrant, mixed-use subcommunities,” and the city moms and pops are deluding themselves if they think it is. It’s I

producing a town that is increasingly over-crowded, over-priced, claustrophobic and gagging on its traffic congestion.

The developers of the 30th Street projects are targeting Apple and Google employees — huh? The ones I’ve met are pretty sharp and don’t have much trouble with arithmetic. Maybe they’re asking themselves why buy (or lease) a condo on 30th Street when you can get a larger single-family detached home with a yard in Frederick or Firestone or even Longmont for the same dough?

Especially if they have kids or are planning to start a family.

Being able to walk to work is one of the attractions of the 30th Street projects, in theory at least. But while 30th Street may be many things, pedestrianfriendly isn’t one of them.

And it’s not clear that everyone considers living a stone’s throw from their jobs a feature, for any number of reasons.

True, the renderings for both projects are really lovely. So were the renderings for Crossroads — both times it was rebuilt. And both times the end product showed that the renderings were, uh, aspirational.

Weaver and Tayer seem to think that the fact that Boulder hasn’t grown in three years means they should double down on what they have been doing and what, self-evidently, isn’t working, either in terms of improving Boulder’s overall quality of life or growing its population (if that’s what you want).

The City would be better off if it took the falling population as a warning. The kind you get from a canary in a coal mine.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Xcel’s risky overture

In this time of pandemic, no one wants to take unnecessary risks. We are all hoping that as we navigate this crisis, we will do it in a way that allows us to emerge into a cleaner, safer, healthier, more equitable world.

That’s why I was concerned to learn that Xcel is trying to lure Boulder back into an agreement with a monopoly with a business model fraught with risks — to our economy, to our resilience, to our planetary survival (Re: “Why is Boulder pursuing a partnership with Xcel when residents have repeatedly voted in support of the muni?” News, May 21, 2020).

One of the things we’ve already learned from the COVID crisis is that big actions early save lives. The same is true of the climate crisis.

Some utilities are stepping up.

Consumers Energy of Michigan plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. That’s 10 years sooner than Xcel’s goal of 2050. Platte River Power Authority is preparing a plan for 90-95% renewables by 2030 at business-as-usual rates. That’s 20 years sooner. By contrast, Xcel recently declined offers to supply it with tens of thousands of megawatts of very low-cost renewables. Xcel’s decision represents a planetary risk.

We have already learned from Boulder’s floods and wildfires that having a resilient electric system in the city could save lives and property.

Microgrids would be a key component of resilience. Boulder community power offers this. Xcel does not. A resilience risk.

The COVID crisis has exacted an enormous toll on Boulder businesses (and consequently the City’s tax revenue for providing essential services).

As we work to emerge from the crisis it would be very helpful to have an additional $23 million each year circulating in our local economy. Instead of circulating and multiplying locally, this amount is siphoned away every year by Xcel and sent to Minneapolis.

A financial risk.

I support a thriving future instead of these risks.

Chris Hoffman/Boulder

Jonathan Singer becoming a County Commissioner.

Jonathan has such an impressive record as a state legislator and so much rich experience he will bring to serve the county.

He has stood strong for strict controls on fracking and other measures to protect our environment.

As chair of the State House Committee on Public Health and Human Services, he played a crucial role in expanding health care coverage, especially in the crucial area of

mental health coverage.

He played an active role in the Democrats’ successful effort to pass gun safety laws.

After the 2013 flood, he worked tirelessly to support recovery efforts. He gained invaluable knowledge of state and federal resources that could be available to the county, and insight into how all these levels of government can work together.

Of course sometimes they don’t work together so smoothly. That’s

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In the wake of our current pandemic, there will be so much recovery work to be done over the next several years. Having Jonathan Singer as a County Commissioner will give Boulder County the best chance to be a leader in those efforts.

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She felt helpless. The tears on the way home were part frustration at her own impotence.

It wasn’t until sometime later that day or the next — it’s all sort of a blur to Alma — that she finally heard from Oscar. He was being held in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract facility in Aurora, operated by the private prison corporation GEO Group, Inc. What’s more, he was in a medical unit, he told his sister. He had been transferred with a fever, he said. The obvious concern was that somewhere along the way he had been exposed to the coronavirus. Alma talked to him again on Sunday night, and became even more worried.

“My concern is really for his health,” Alma says, “and that was the reason we contracted a lawyer was to make sure that he didn’t die, to make sure that he didn’t fall through the cracks.”

For several days, immigration lawyer Henry Hollithron says he was unable to get any information from ICE or GEO about Oscar, let alone speak to his client. As late as Wednesday, May 20, he was told Oscar was still being held in medical quarantine at the facility.

“It has been very frustrating to try to communicate with them to have this complete denial of access to counsel so that we could know what was going on,” Hollithron says.

On Thursday, May 21, Hollithron was told his

A man was released from prison only to be detained by ICE — now he’s in the hospital with COVID-19

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lma Rosa Perez-Aguirre cried all the way back to Longmont from the Sterling Correctional Facility. She had left Boulder County around 5 a.m. on May 15 with her daughter and niece, driving more than 120 miles to pick up her brother Oscar Perez-Aguirre upon his release. Oscar had called Alma the day before, elated. At 57 years old, with hypertension and an enlarged heart, he was eligible for release due to a higher risk of severe illness associated with COVID-19, he told her. He had tested negative and was told he would be let go the following morning. He had been given all the paperwork and everything, he said.

“We drove all the way to Sterling and missed a day of work,” Alma tells Boulder Weekly through an interpreter more than a week later. “We were so excited to be able to pick him up and to see him.”

As they waited with other families by a big red sign in the parking lot, several men were released, but Oscar wasn’t one of them. A little while later, Alma says, a guard came over and said: “Oscar’s not going to be released to you all; Immigration took him into custody.”

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client “had been located at University Hospital.”

But it wasn’t until Hollithron talked to Oscar himself that the family found out he had tested positive for COVID-19.

ICE won’t confirm that Oscar is one of two cases at the Aurora facility that the agency announced on Wednesday, May 20. Although an ICE official did say one of the cases is a 57-yearold from Mexico who is hospitalized. The other is a 35-year-old man from El Salvador who is still at the GEO facility. In addition to the two detainees, there is currently one employee with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, according to the TriCounty Health Department. Tri-County Health says all three cases are unrelated, and exposure in all three cases occurred outside of the GEO facility.

Across the country, more than 1,300 immigrants in ICE custody have tested positive for the disease in over 50 facilities. According to media reports, there have been at least two people to die of complications related to COVID-19 while being held in ICE custody. Local and national elected leaders, medical professionals and immigration advocates have long worried that the coronavirus could spread quickly among people being held in ICE detention, calling for mass releases, especially for those deemed especially vulnerable by the Centers for Disease Control.

At the Aurora facility specifically, there is concern over a long history of complaints about inadequate medical care and past handling of infectious disease outbreaks. In 2019, the facility saw outbreaks of scabies, mumps and varicella, or BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

chicken pox, causing local health officials to intervene. At one point, 350 detainees had to be quarantined, and the outbreaks drew public criticism from elected officials, who decried both ICE and GEO Group’s communication and handling of the situation.

Since then, Congressman Jason Crow’s office has been conducting weekly accountability reports at the facility.

“I do think that the Aurora contract facility is in a better position than they were a year ago since we started the oversight,” Crow says.

“But it’s far from where it needs to be, and there are a lot of problems that remain that we’re going to continue to work with the administrators of that facility to try to address. And we still have questions remaining about their ability to address an outbreak of this nature in that facility.”

According to the last accountability report from Crow’s office, one detainee was hospitalized on May 19, the day he also tested positive for COVID-19. The second case was confirmed on May 20, after the person was placed in isolation after he began displaying symptoms on May 18. The dorm he was in previously has 10 occupants according to the report.

Throughout the pandemic, Crow has raised concerns with ICE on a national level over access to legal counsel and contract minimums at different facilities that mean detainees are moved from place to place.

“Transfers during this period have to just stop. I mean, I don’t know how else to put it,” Crow says.

“We’re in the middle of a pandemic, tens of thousands of Americans are dying, our civilian health care system is struggling in some ways to keep up with it, let alone a broken immigration [detention system] to tend with here.”

Oscar’s case is especially alarming, Crow says, given that he was moved from a facility with a known outbreak. At the Sterling Correctional Facility there are 530 inmates with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two people have died as of May 26.

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Oscar first exhibited symptoms. Due to HIPAA regulations and privacy concerns, the Department of Corrections (DOC) refused to answer specific questions regarding his personal medical information, including when he was last tested for COVID-19. However, Public Information Officer Annie Skinner says that according to DOC policy, all inmates at the Sterling facility are being tested for COVID-19, and they are undergoing temperature checks before being transferred to other facilities.

According to an ICE official, there have been four prisoner transfers from the Sterling facility since the beginning of the pandemic. They were all tested for COVID-19 upon entry and were housed separately from the general population after they arrived. In the case of Oscar, he was immediately placed in isolation upon arrival at the Aurora facility.

The official says the agency had no choice in detaining Oscar given his criminal history as mandated by law, regardless of his health risks. In March 2020, he was convicted of illegal re-entry, a felony offense, and was being held at Sterling stemming from a 1998 drug conviction in Boulder County.

The last time Alma saw her brother was in June 2019, at a detention center in El Paso, Texas, when he was first detained trying to cross the border. He had been deported from the U.S. decades earlier, and had resolved to stay in Mexico, living alone in the small mountain community of Gomez Farias in the state of Chihuahua. But all his kids and grandkids lived in Boulder, and due to financial reasons, they couldn’t come visit him. So, Alma says, he decided to try and come for a month-long visit to see his family before returning home. He never intended to stay.

“He would always tell me, ‘I don’t want to be in hiding. I don’t want to sneak around. But I do want to see my children and my grandchildren,’” Alma says.

For months after he was detained at the border, she says, Oscar was bounced around from facility to facility and sometimes the family would go days without knowing I

where he was. At one point, he called and said he was going to be deported so Alma traveled down to Juarez to make sure she was there on the other side of the border when he was released, only to find out he had been transferred up to Colorado.

This past experience makes her skeptical about what will happen if he is released from the hospital still in ICE custody.

“I am not confident that he’ll be treated well and that his human rights, the rights that all of us have as human beings, will be respected

by Immigration and by the officials at GEO,” Alma says. “I’m very much worried that if he’s returned to their custody, he will get sick again and possibly die.”

Oscar’s transfer has raised concerns among immigration advocates who say that ICE was “reckless” to bring someone who had knowingly been exposed to COVID-19 into the Aurora facility, putting all the detainees being held there, as well as staff, at risk. According to Jennifer Piper from the American Friends Services Committee (AFSC), Oscar was transferred with at least one other person from the Sterling facility, and was housed with at least one other person on the medical unit at GEO. She questions what precautions the facility is taking to protect both personnel and detainees.

“What they’re doing with having put him in detention, even in their medical unit directly, is they’re endangering the health of everyone in that facility,” Hollithron adds.

What’s more concerning, Piper says, is how difficult it was to find out information about Oscar even through a lawyer.

“ICE failed to communicate to family, lawyer or congressional offices that Oscar’s test was positive and that he had been transferred to the hospital until almost 36 hours later,” she alleges. “They put up procedural barriers, refused to respond to further questions and hid critical information.”

It doesn’t give her much confidence that either ICE or GEO will adequately care for the other man still at the facility who has tested positive for COVID-19. It’s only MAY 28, 2020

more reason why ICE needs to be releasing more people from detention centers both in Aurora and around the country in order to protect everyone from the spread of the coronavirus, she says.

ICE has released about 900 people who are medically vulnerable from its custody since March 1, and overall the detained population has dropped by 7,000 as detention bookings have decreased significantly compared to the same time period last year. But more could still be done, Crow says.

“We need to look at who can be safely released using humanitarian parole,” Crow says. “It’s the right thing for the individuals detained. It’s the right thing for the staff. It’s the right thing for our community and I think for our country, and the administration needs to use that mechanism much more aggressively.”

Currently, there is no clear timeline from when Oscar will be released from the hospital or what will happen once he is. Hollithron says he’s working with the deportation officer to ensure that he is either released directly to Mexico or at the very least granted parole to be with his family in Boulder County until his deportation arrangements can be made. They are not advocating that he be allowed to stay in the U.S. but they also don’t want him, any under circumstances, to be detained again at the GEO facility.

“After this experience, I don’t trust Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” Alma says. “It’s very hard being in their custody, both for the people who are in their custody, and for those of us who have loved ones inside, it’s a very difficult and frightening situation.”

Alma was able to speak with Oscar again on Friday, May 22.

Toward the end of the phone call, she says, her brother, usually quiet and strong, broke down, frightened that if he is returned to GEO he won’t have enough strength to survive, she says.

“He’s very scared to return to GEO,” she says. “He’s so exhausted right now. He’s sure he’ll die if he goes back there.”

After the phone call with her brother, Alma says, she cried again.

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What can we learn about criminal justice reform from the coronavirus pandemic?

by Angela K. Evans

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he Boulder County Jail only had 199 inmates on Friday, May 22 — a record low, according to Sheriff Joe Pelle. The daily average has hovered below 250 since the jail, in conjunction with the District Attorney’s office, started releasing people at the end of March due to coronavirus concerns. Before the pandemic, the average daily jail population was 460.

The Boulder County jail has been historically plagued by overcrowding, but it seems that the threat of an infectious disease has achieved what Countyfunded studies and expert recommendations have not been able to — cutting the jail population by more than half.

What does this mean for the future of criminal justice reform?

“They say crisis is the mother of invention,” says Christi Donner, executive director and founder of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition (CCJRC). “There’s a lot of things that we do in criminal justice that we do just because we’ve always done it this way. And I think these kinds of situations make us reflect and say, is that really how we have to do it?”

Around the country, jails and prisons have become a hotbed of contagion since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In Colorado, there have been approximately 700 confirmed and probable cases in both inmates and staff at prisons and jails according to state outbreak data released on May 20. When halfway houses are included, the number jumps even higher. To stop the spread of the disease, local jails and the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) have been working to release inmates who meet certain criteria early.

At the local level, Pelle says at least three Sheriff ’s Department employees have tested positive, one of which was in the jail, but overall the Boulder County Jail hasn’t had any cases of COVID-19 within its inmate population. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty says his office took early steps to reduce the jail population by reviewing each case to determine who should be released.

“As individuals and as a criminal justice system, we’re going to be able to learn a lot from this health crisis in terms of how we can improve,” he says.

“We’ll be able to take a look at the data surrounding the decisions we’ve made and things that have happened during this time period and look to apply those to the future, both in terms of how we can be more efficient, but also how we can improve the system as a whole.”

Not only have people been released, Pelle says, but the County arrest standards were also amended to BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

severely restrict who is accepted at the jail.

Those with municipal offenses (such as warrants and probable cause charges) as well as misdemeanors (with the exception of statemandated offenses such as domestic violence and multiple DUI offenders) aren’t being held. Openly defying a peace officer and residential and business burglary can land some in jail under the current standards, however, Pelle says.

Additionally, since the start of the pandemic, individuals who are facing multiple charges in different jurisdictions haven’t been shuffled between jails in different counties to attend court appearances, as those have been moved to video conferencing. It’s a change in pre-trial services that could last.

“It’s actually a better, smarter, more efficient way to do business,” Pelle says. “It’s something the courts have been forced to adapt to because of the virus.

But I think this is one of those things that we will see used more universally in the future regardless of the virus.”

At the DOC level, Public Information Officer Annie Skinner says it’s too early to tell what the pandemic can teach us when it comes to criminal justice reform.

“What it has shown so far is the importance of the work that is being done inside our facilities to break down the us-versus-them culture between staff and inmates,” she writes. “The normalization work that has already been done inside prisons has allowed staff and inmates to face the challenges this virus poses in a cooperative, patient and respectful way.

When it comes to the DOC, Donner says, the releases mostly come down to simply speeding up the process. Previously, she says, it took 45 days to process final paperwork after the parole board decided to release someone from DOC. Now, she says, it’s taking just five days.

“They’re still doing the same thing. Nothing has changed,” she says. “It’s just gotten faster.”

Emily Kleeman the executive director at The Reentry Initiative (TRI), says the organization was getting four to six referrals from Longmont parole a month. Now, it’s getting roughly 10 or so a week.

Kleeman says she sees the recent releases as a positive step toward creating a more just system.

“I think it’s making us reevaluate why we have harsher punishments for low-level first-time offenders over the ones that really do need to be isolated from the community for safety,” she says.

Still, none of what’s happening is “radical reform,” Donner says. “Every crack in the sidewalk is also I

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showing up.”

Donner says she’s concerned about the “jail backlog” — people who have been sentenced to prison but who are sitting in county jails because the DOC is slow to admit new inmates during all of this. Statewide, she says, the backlog is up to 500 people. The Boulder County Jail, Pelle says, was holding 10 people with felony convictions waiting to enter the prison system until they were transferred on May 22. Currently there are six people with felony parole violations awaiting transfer, he says.

Pelle also expresses concerns about cuts to justice-based behavioral health funding as lawmakers face balancing a budget with a $3.3 million shortfall as the legislature resumed on May 26. Although the jail has seen a significant decrease in its population, the percentage of people with mental illness or substance abuse still being held jumped from 40% to 80%, he says. Another crack in the system, according to Donner.

She’s also concerned about responsible medical transition as people are released from places with known cases of COVID-19. “It’s complicated, but we have to be thinking about that,” she says. “It’s so much more complicated than just reducing the population.”

(Skinner says inmates are educated about the virus before release and can be connected to community resources through their parole officers.)

Plus, Donner expects that a return to normalcy will just fill back up the jails.

“It’s not like, Oh, what we used to be able to do, we can no longer do. We just stopped doing it for a minute,” she says. “I don’t think that we’re getting to the root of anything. We’re just reacting to things.”

“I don’t think these low numbers are going to last,” Pelle adds.

He suspects the numbers to increase once jury trials and court sentencing resumes in July, as many cases have been postponed due to the pandemic.

Dougherty says it’s something his office is working hard to prepare for, including resolving cases ahead of court dates.

He for one sees this as an opportunity to effect lasting change within the criminal justice system.

“I think it would be a mistake for us to simply go back to things as normal without looking at it with a critical eye to see how we can improve the justice system and what efficiencies and changes we can develop as a result of this pandemic,” he says.

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“ESCAPE will measure light from nearby stars in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that has not been observed very much before,” says Allison Youngblood, a research scientist at LASP who is working on the mission. “This light is important because it helps determine whether or not an exoplanet, or even planets in our solar system, will lose their atmospheres to space.”

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Youngblood grew up in Houston, and knew that she wanted to be a scientist when she began studying at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

In her first semester as an undergraduate, she took an introductory astronomy class and was immediately captivated. She came to Boulder in 2010 for the doctoral program in astrophysics, and contributed to some early discussions about the ESCAPE mission concept, which was related to her thesis project.

After finishing her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland before returning to Boulder last year to help prepare the proposal for ESCAPE. “Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light can ionize atoms; it’s really dangerous stuff,” Youngblood explains.

“The UV that you think of, causing sunburns or skin cancer, is pretty mild compared to what EUV light can do. But thankfully it is blocked by the highest layers of our atmosphere.”

The interaction of EUV light with planetary atmospheres is not a coincidence, it is precisely why the mission will focus on this type of radiation. In the 1990s, NASA operated a mission called the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) that surveyed the entire sky, gathering observations of more than 800 targets over its 8.5-year lifetime. In the 30 years since EUVE was designed, the technology for detecting this type of radiation has improved dramatically, with modern instruments achieving 100 times the sensitivity.

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Youngblood’s primary responsibility for the ESCAPE project is to identify the best sample of 200 nearby stars for the telescope to observe during its two-year mission. The target list will include stars covering a wide range of sizes and ages to help characterize the full variety of radiation environments in neighboring planetary systems. If a planet is subjected to high doses of EUV radiation for too long, it will eventually lose its protective atmosphere and BOULDER WEEKLY

become hostile to the development of complex life. By filling the gaps in our understanding of what types of stars provide a suitable environment for life to flourish, the ESCAPE team will help NASA focus its resources on the most promising habitable worlds over the coming decades.

If NASA selects ESCAPE next year instead of the competing mission, the project could receive up to $145 million in funding over the next four years. This would support additional design and technology development, culminating in yet another review by NASA, followed by the final design, fabrication, integration and testing of the spacecraft prior to launch. All told, nearly a decade will have passed between the initial conversations about the mission concept and when the first scientific observations will return from the mission. And that’s if it succeeds at every step.

Ten days after NASA announced its initial support for ESCAPE to move forward, Governor Jared Polis issued a stay-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two months later, as local research laboratories start to return to normal operations, the team is straining to meet rigid submission deadlines.

“Here at LASP, we are slowly beginning to bring laboratory staffing levels back up, but NASA centers are still on full shutdown,” France says. “This includes NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where prototype ESCAPE telescope optics are to be fabricated. While the design work and science mission work can continue remotely, at a basic level, we cannot get people into the lab to demonstrate the technical side of the proposal.”

It’s a long road to develop a NASA mission from concept to operations.

Hopefully, by the time ESCAPE returns its first scientific data, the COVID-19 pandemic will be no more than a distant memory.

Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is made possible in part by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Whistling past aTwograveyard Swedish economists explain the country’s pandemic strategy, and why they don’t believe it will benefit the Nordic state in the long run

by Caitlin Rockett

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iving with her parents in their summer home in “the middle of nowhere forest in Sweden” was not what Siri Isaksson expected to be doing right now.

She was only going to visit Sweden for four days in mid-March before she took a trip to the U.S. to give some talks — Isaksson, who lives in Norway and is an assistant professor of behavioral economics at the Norwegian School of Economics — but then Norway enacted its lockdown, shutting its borders to the world and forcing Isaksson to make a decision about where she wanted to be: in Norway without her parents, or in Sweden with them.

The middle of nowhere Sweden it was.

That’s where she is when we connect via Skype. She took her parents from Stockholm to the remote summer home specifically to protect her 70-year-old mother, who has a lung disease.

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Isaksson has, from the beginning, been an outspoken opponent of Sweden’s strategy during the pandemic, a sort of social-distancing lite where most businesses, including schools, stay open, but the government asks the people to please use caution. Masks are not encouraged.

While the strategy seems to have garnered wide support from the Swedish citizenry, it’s also created one of the highest death tolls per capita in the world, with almost 40 deaths per 100,000 according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

As of May 27, there have been 4,220 COVIDrelated deaths in Sweden.

“The Swedish policy is basically trading lives today for speculative lives tomorrow,” Isaksson says. “And I actually don’t know if that’s false. I can’t tell you [whether that’s false] because the idea is that in the fall there’s going to be a second wave and that wave is going to be much harder than the first wave and if we have some immunity in our society, less people are going to die. ... You’re speculating about a second wave, you’re speculating about immunity, you’re speculating about a lot of things. But I can tell you one thing that’s for sure: Those 4,000 people that are dead, they are dead. That’s for sure. They’re not coming back.

“I really don’t think it’s morally defensible.”

The Swedish model is often described as a plan to develop herd immunity, wherein a large

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enough portion of the population has developed resistance to an infection, either by direct contact with the virus or through a vaccine. But Isaksson says that’s a misunderstanding about the Swedish method, which actually intends to “flatten the curve” of infection.

“So our strategy is designed to never … overburden the health care system,” Isaksson says. “And from that perspective we have been successful. Herd immunity is something that comes as kind of a logical consequence because as you have people going through the infection, supposedly they get immunity. Now that’s debatable too. … We don’t know.

“Now, why I am critical ... is because if you look at the data, just the data, you have 4,000 dead and you have 2,000 that have been treated in ICU. Now, what that tells me is you have so many people who get infected by this virus who are too fragile, either too old or they have underlying diseases, that you simply can’t put them on a ventilator. This is my talking point: What does it matter that we have capacity in our health care system if we can’t save the lives of those patients?”

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demic,” the country is open with the fact “that the strategy has failed to protect the elderly living in care homes.”

People over 80 have made up 66% of those who have died from coronavirus in Sweden, with nearly half of the country’s deaths occurring in elderly care facilities.

Sweden’s Public Health Agency — its CDC — has consistently said outbreaks in these facilities is the reason for the country’s high death toll.

Isaksson doesn’t buy it. She calculates that removing 66% of the total deaths in Sweden still leaves more than 1,400 people dead who were not in elderly care facilities. Compared to the 236 deaths in Norway, that’s still six orders of magnitude more death in Sweden than in Norway.

“This math just doesn’t add up,” Isaksson says.

Sweden’s lead epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, seems to have a bit of a problem with math. Sweden’s Public Health Agency said in late March it expected about 25% of the population to have been infected by May 1. A late April study of 1,118 Stockholm residents showed only 7.3% had developed antibodies. Yet Tengell told CNN that number was just “a bit lower” than expected, “but not remarkably lower, maybe one or a couple of percent.”

“This comment made me very upset,” says Hannes Malmberg, a Swedish economist who teaches at the University of Minnesota. “I think that it shows that avoiding blame has become very important and that means that some clarity of communication has suffered quite a bit.”

Malmberg has worked directly with Tom Britton, a professor of mathematics who helped develop Sweden’s forecasting model. Britton has been clear that something is wrong with the original calculations and Sweden needs to go back to the drawing board. But Tegnell — who has taken on the role as Sweden’s defacto leader during the pandemic, with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven taking a backseat while the health official addresses the public during press conferences — has maintained that Sweden is on the right course, despite the death toll remaining fairly steady day after day.

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start with; it’s a respiratory disease, so it’s hard to stop, or even impossible to stop.

Then they’d just be delaying trouble by doing very hard lockdowns — there might be a logic to that. You want [a strategy that’s] sustainable over the long run.

“But I think as more data has come in, it’s become clear that [other] countries have been able to stop this for several months. … The antibody studies are coming in, and we see that in New York only 20% had the disease even though there’s a massive amount of deaths. Sweden is at around 7% [of the total population with antibodies], Spain was 5%. I think that these data show that the disease kills a lot of people, not because everyone gets it, but because it’s dangerous and that tells you two things: A) that it’s possible to stop and B) that it’s more important to stop it.”

Malmberg says Sweden has failed to put appropriate resources into combatting the virus, failing to build up adequate testing. He worked quickly with five other Swedish researchers to write a white paper in late March detailing policy ideas that could help countries manage the pandemic. The paper focuses on slowing the spread of disease, protecting highrisk groups and leveraging idle portions of the workforce. The paper was given to the Swedish Public Health Agency.

“They didn’t care about that,” Malmberg says. “[The government gave the agency] $100 million and then nothing happened. And now two months down the road we’re still not anywhere close to the testing target,” of 100,000 MAY 21, 2020

mit direct flights from Sweden when it opens its borders on June 9, but would allow inbound flights from Norway, Denmark and Finland.

“We’re a small export-dependent economy and we need to travel,” Malmberg says. “So I think it’s very important that we get the disease under control, but also do much more testing so we can show the world that we have it under control.”

With no contract tracing occurring in Sweden (Tegnell has said the value of contact tracing “has yet to be seen”), Malmberg says it will be “very hard to communicate and give confidence to authorities and other countries because we have so little information.”

The Brookings Institute did a study on the effect of COVID-19 and disease suppression policies on labor markets, using 20 PEOPLE tests a week. wealthy countries — the Nordics CONGREGATE in a Sweden is curamong them — as subjects. The park in Stockholm, rently testing just study found that while “preliminary Sweden, on May 26, over 30,000 people results do not suggest any strong 2020. a week. trade-off between disease supMalmberg and pression and economic perforIsaksson aren’t the mance … they do provide some only researchers who are skeptical of evidence … that widespread testing and Sweden’s strategy. In early April, more quarantine could substitute for severe than 2,000 Swedish researchers and scirestrictions on business and social life, entists signed an open letter calling for as the pandemic unfolds.” stronger action from the government.

Sweden is projected to hit 10% While some have characterized unemployment by summer.

Sweden’s model as a trade-off between “We usually have tourists coming to disease and economic vitality, Malmberg Sweden in the summer,” Isaksson says. doesn’t see it in quite such stark terms.

“Who the heck is going to come to Sweden is already suffering economical- Sweden? No one wants to come to ly from the pandemic, even with busiSweden. You gotta do something about nesses open. the cause. You can’t just take care of the “A lot of the damage to the econosymptoms. Like, good luck dishing out a my comes from people voluntarily stay- bunch of stimulus packages to keep busiing at home or avoiding interaction. It’s nesses alive [when] people don’t start not policy. ... But even though Sweden coming to those businesses.” doesn’t have [strict policies in place], But for Isaksson the real concern is as long as the disease is still around, the loss of life — it’s why she’s in the we’re going to be more cautious and middle of nowhere with her parents in that might turn out to be more damagSweden. It’s why she takes to Twitter ing in the long run.” daily to call out the discrepancies in govHe points out that Denmark and ernment reporting.

Norway have built up “a massive testing “[Early in the pandemic] I was listeninfrastructure,” that may give Sweden’s ing to a [National Review] podcast called neighbors “a more open summer than we The Editors ... and they were saying how will have.” the West was ‘whistling past a graveWhich invites another question: Will yard.’ And their argument just made so other Nordic nations — any nations, real- much sense to me. If [at that time] ly — want to interact with Sweden as bor- China’s doing all these things and they ders reopen and restrictions loosen? still have a lot of problems, this is not Cyprus recently said it would not per- going to end well.”

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THE GOOD PLACE AND PHILOSOPHY — AN ONLINE DISCUSSION. 5:30 P.M. THURSDAY, MAY 28, GREYHAVENSGROUP. ORG/EVENTS.

The Good Place is a rare breed of television show: funny, heartwarming, romantic, inventive and deeply philosophical. If you’ve been feeling sad since it ended — or if you’re just itching for a good philosophical discussion — tune into this online panel, hosted by Longmont-based nonprofit Grey Havens Philosophy. Dissect Chidi’s moral philosophy lessons, and what the show has to say about how the universe works.

And if you can’t make it this Thursday, no sweat. This conversation takes place every second and fourth Thursday on Zoom. Register for free at Eventbrite. For the most accurate and up-to-date info on Grey Havens Philosphy events, please visit greyhavensgroup.org, or the Facebook page at Grey Havens Philosophy.

BEER HISTORY TALKS WITH TRAVIS RUPP — 4:30 P.M. THURSDAY, MAY 28; 5:30 P.M. FRIDAY, MAY 29, FACEBOOK LIVE/AVERY BREWING.

Grab a beer and join Travis Rupp, CU-Boulder Classics professor and Avery Brewing Co.’s resident beer archeologist, as he discusses his latest research on how beer drove production in fourth century Egypt, and how beer shaped, and was shaped by, 18th century America and England. You can even drink along with the latter, just swing by Avery Brewing, pick up 1752 India Pale Ale and Monticello (a barrel-fermented wheat ale with persimmons) before the Friday talk. More at averybrewing.com/events.

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Growing Gardens is hosting virtual summer camps, now open for registration. Each month from June through August, Growing Gardens will have several different themes to choose from each week including: Growing Your Own Garden, Farm to Table Cooking and Art on the Farm for kids ages 5-12. There are two summer camp packages offering technology or technology-free adaptations. Each virtual camp offers supplies, daily Zoom calls, activities for your child and the whole family, hands-on learning video lessons and

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recipes. So stay safe with your loved ones and let Growing Gardens provide fun and engaging learning opportunities for your kids all summer long. Price: $100 -$150 (price is per child per week). Contact Kennedy Walker: info@growinggardens.org, 303-443-9952

FREE RANGE DAIRY: GRAPHIC SCORE WORKSHOP WITH NATHAN HALL. 2 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 2 VIA ZOOM, THEDAIRY. ORG/FREE-RANGE-DAIRY.

Explore making music directly inspired by your surroundings — no musical training necessary — with former Fulbright Fellow Nathan Hall. His works have been performed and exhibited in 14 countries and 12 states, and among other residencies and grants, he was Denver Art Museum’s first Creative in Residence. This virtual workshop will focus on making and interpreting our own “graphic scores” which are music scores that also read as visual artworks.

You’ll also learn a little history about where music and visual art collide, and use objects around you to make soundscapes that you’ll perform for other participants online.

You’ll need: • Paper (any kind, preferably 8.5×11 or bigger) • Drawing tools of various kinds (pencils, ink, crayons, markers, up to you) • Objects around your house that make sounds (pots/pans, glasses, stones, plants, papers, yourself) • Optional: instead of paper and drawing tools, you can use a digital drawing pad see EVENTS Page 20

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Logistx at the Block

BY CAITLIN ROCKETT

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he pandemic hasn’t stopped Block 1750 from finding a way to connect with the community. And from helping the community connect with their own bodies.

The dance-based community center will host a virtual fundraiser and hip-hop breaking lesson with Logan Edra, the 16-year-old powerhouse breakdancer commonly known as Logistx.

Studio-founder and owner Alex Milewski first met Edra around six years ago at a breaking jam in Los Angeles. Even then,10year-old Edra was a force on the dance floor.

“If you follow her on social media, she’s such a positive presence,” Milewski says.

“She’s a bright light in the hip-hop and break scenes. She’s always advocating for people, for goodness, for activism, for veganism — she’s so uplifting in so many ways. Age aside, it’s incredible how much she’s done. It’s so inspiring to see that.

That’s what the Block is about. It’s not about doing cool dance moves. It’s about coming together, supporting each other,

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n its debut album, Promise of Tomorrow, Colorado-based bluegrass outfit Turkeyfoot acknowledge that niggling sense that everything is wrong and there’s nothing we can do about it, but instead of giving into the dread, the quintet instead focuses on the here and now. Like a rustic, homestead mantra, Promise of Tomorrow reminds you again and again that you are not alone in your pain, and while it shapes you, your pain does not define you.

According to mandolinist Jordan Brandenburg, the title track was inspired by his grandparents, who pulled up stakes in Oklahoma at a young age to escape the MAY 28, 2020

ON THE BILL: Block 1750 hosts a hip-hop breaking lesson with Logistx.

5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28, Block1750. com/live. Suggested donations starting at $5. For more information contact hello@ block1750.com, or 303-654-9617.

supporting the community and the values of warm-up session, a lesson in basic breakhip-hop: peace, love and fun. She emboding choreography and then a short Q&A ies all of those values with all of her being.” where Edra will answer questions from Before she found her way to breaking, participants, “to dig into her journey and her Edra trained in gymnastics and hip-hop state of mind a little,” Milewski says. dance, giving her strength and fluidity in “One of my roles right now as a director breaking. She’s competed with some of the of the Block and a community teacher best B-boys and B-girls COURTESY OF BLOCK 1750 is to keep people in the game, and won inspired,” he adds. both season 2 of NBC’s “It’s not about teachWorld Of Dance with ing them crazy dance The Lab, and the Taipei moves every week.

B-Boy City Bgirl battle in It’s about having 2019. something to work “For me [breaking] towards and look was something that was forward to. [Edra] is still a dance and an art such an inspiration form that had to do with on so many levels. music where you really She draws people had to listen and feel the in with her skills as music, but it’s so physia breaker, but you cally challenging too,” realize that’s a fracEdra said in an interview tion of the inspiration with DanceSportTotal. “I feel the challenge she has to offer. This fundraiser is not is what keeps me inspired to keep on with just about raising money for this studio breaking.” but about raising inspiration for everyone, The workshop will be hosted on drawing them in with this dope, well-known Instagram with a suggested donation of $5, B-girl teaching a class. By engaging with but Milewski says everyone is welcome, her it inspires a whole different level of regardless of ability to pay. There will be a mindfulness.”

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“I’ve always taken comfort in the way my grandparents overcame so many hardships in their lives,” Brandenburg said in a statement about the album. “They never lost hope, and I think their grit has served me well in my life when times get tough. The only thing we really have is hope in each other and the future, and that theme is central to the album.”

While the track reflects on the tribulations of an older generation, the lyrics transcend the literal to offer hope to anyone willing to look for it.

“Some bones ain’t worth digging up,” Brandenburg sings, “So let’s leave them where they lay / The promise of tomorrow / Comes with leaving here today.”

Joining Brandenburg are Michael Rudolph on bass, Bridger Dunnagan on fiddle, Dave Pailet on guitar and dobro, and Alex Koukov on banjo. The band has I

played together for years as friends, slowly but surely working out original material that eventually won them second place in the RockyGrass band competition in 2017. And though the bluegrass current is strong on Promise of Tomorrow, it dips into AmeriJASON PIERCE cana on tracks like “Telluride Waltz,” a love song as calming as the electric blue skies of the town after which it’s named.

With Promise of Tomorrow, Turkeyfoot has made the leap from friends playing songs to full-fledged band with a little something to say about the human experience.

“These things you’ve been chasing / Leave you empty, my friend,” Brandenburg sings on “Things You Been Chasing.” “The only thing that we have is this time until it ends / So mend all your fences / Sing a wild song / Because it won’t be long before we’re all gone.”

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Writers on screen

by Michael J. Casey

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MY BRILLIANT CAREER: Adapted from the novel by Miles Franklin (the pen name for Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin), My Brilliant Career is the Australian story of one woman, two suitors and a passion for the pen. Both men want marriage, and Sybylla (Judy Davis) does not.

There’s a parallel here between Sybylla and the land. Australia circa 1900 is being colonized by force with the wealthy establishing their territories by squatting, erecting fences and pretending it was there’s all along. Sybylla has no interest in being squat upon, though she does love Harry (Sam Neill). But she also knows that marriage comes with a price: The end of her career in letters. There are many similarities between Franklin’s My Brilliant Career and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which is probably how My Brilliant Career director Gillian Armstrong got the gig directing the ‘94 adaptation of the March sisters. Streaming on The Criterion Channel.

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riters themselves aren’t that dramatic or empathetic a subject,” screenwriter Sarah Gubbins says. “As a genus and species they are wont to be solitary, sedentary and sullen. Social mores often elude them. As a breed they are prone to paranoia, anxiety, depression and petty self-absorption. And they tend to go extended periods without bathing.”

Write what you know, the adage goes, and Gubbins’ latest film Shirley — about novelist Shirley Jackson, full review on page 22 — has a lived-in quality only a writer could create. The long hours spent in bed waiting for something to come, the longer hours spent hunched over the desk when it does. The fracturing of time and space, reality and fiction, as the writer disappears further and further into the words. And the inevitable slip into excessive consumption and flights of fancy.

The movies love a good writer, and their image on the silver screen is legion. Here are four to stream at home that will either convince you to sit down and write those stories burning inside, or extinguish the flame once and for all.

LITTLE WOMEN: When Beth March (Eliza Scanlen) its down at Mr. Laurence’s piano, she plays Schumann’s “Scenes From Childhood.” A magnificent piece and a nod from writer/director Greta Gerwig to Gillian Armstrong — Armstrong used “Scenes From Childhood” as a leitmotiv in My Brilliant Career.

From there, Gerwig makes Alcott’s novel her own. She uproots the linear storytelling, embraces the essence of each sister — and what makes them catnip for the men — and susses out the eternal conflict between the head and the heart. And when Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) clutches her freshly printed book, the act of creation becomes much more than a stack of ink-stained paper. Streaming on DirecTV.

SHOCK CORRIDOR: Journalist Barrett (Peter Breck) has cracked his fast track to the Pulitzer: Have himself committed to an insane asylum to uncover the details of an unsolved murder. It’s an airtight plan until Barrett finds himself in the company of a black student who fancies himself a white nationalist and proud member of the Ku Klux Klan, a captured and brainwashed Korean War vet, and a nuclear scientist so terrified of obliteration at the hands of atomic weapons he’s regressed to the age of six. Don’t worry, Barrett tells his girlfriend, I got a handle on this. The mad ones always do. The titular corridor is journalist/novelist/filmmaker Samuel Fuller’s grand metaphor for America. It’s blunt, heavy-handed and chilling as hell. Even worse, not much has changed since its release 50-plus years ago. Streaming on The Criterion Channel and Kanopy.

IN A LONELY PLACE: Dix Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a Hollywood screenwriter with a case of writer’s block. He’s been given a popular novel to adapt, but he refuses to read it. A young hat-check girl loves the book, and Dix convinces her to go home with him so she can recount the plot.

When the hat-check girl shows up dead, all fingers point to Dix. Gloria Grahame stars alongside Bogie in one of the most acidic looks at Hollywood — and one of the best. In Dorothy B. Hughes’ source novel, Dix pretends to be a crime novelist. In the film, screenwriter Andrew Solt and director Nicholas Ray transformed Steele into a man on the lowest rung of the Hollywood ladder, the loneliest place of them all. Streaming on The Criterion Channel and Crackle.

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hirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) is precisely the type of writer you’d expect to meet if you’d read one of her stories: Distant, acerbic and drunk.

Her husband, Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), also fits the mold. He’s a college professor with a bushy beard, dark-framed glasses and elbow patches on his tweed jacket. He’d undoubtedly smell of cheap cigars if Shirley’s cigarette smoke didn’t permeate every article of clothing they own. Then again, in 1950 Bennington, Vermont, everything smelled of stale cigarette smoke. Stanley’s students probably didn’t even have to pinch their noses while improving their grades.

Yes, Stanley is one of those kinds of professors. Shirley knows, naturally, and she hates it. There’s a hint that they might have an open relationship, or at least discussed one once. But there’s also a hint that their open relationship is a one-way street.

Written by Sarah Gubbins and directed by Josephine Decker, Shirley — playing CU-Boulder’s International Film Series virtual theaters starting June 5 — is a gothic bio-pic, one that relies more on impression than it does information.

The crux of the story revolves around Shirley’s mental state as she undertakes a new project, Hangsaman, a novel about a lonely college freshman who goes missing. Though Shirley knows little more about the missing woman save for a 250-word clipping from the newspaper, she understands her completely. Ditto for Rose (Odessa Young), the young, pregnant wife of Fred (Logan Lerman); Hyman’s teaching assistant and carousing buddy.

There are echoes of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the relationships between Shirley and Stanley and Fred and Rose — the drinking, the fighting, the frustration of growing old with little to show. But as Shirley progresses, the story takes on the atmosphere of one of Jackson’s stories.

Working with cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen and editor David Barker, Decker creates unstable spaces and shifting frames. Shirley and Rose’s mental states are depicted through shallow-focus, a never-steady camera and jagged cutting. Most of the images cut from one close-up to the next. The effect is suffocating and rocky, but they also get in the way and blot out the performance. Moss excels as a woman sorely in need of a partner and not a Svengali plying her with booze and governing her writing. Stuhlbarg is pitch-perfect as a man loveable and disarming one second, controlling and creepy the next. Toss in a swaying camera into the mix, and it doesn’t add anything, it just underlines.

It doesn’t help that Fred and Rose never quite rise above stock and trade ciphers.

Sexually frustrated and possibly attracted to Shirley, Rose is relegated to the role of dutiful wife, thankless mother and Shirley’s caretaker. In a similar vein, Fred hints at desires and frustrations in his career but spends most of the movie off-screen screwing students.

Bad movies are bad movies, but almost good movies are somehow worse. The story is compelling, the performances are good, and all the components are present. You can see what the filmmakers are going for, and you want them to get there, they just don’t.

Sometimes the soufflé rises, and sometimes it falls. Sometimes the chef forgets to turn on the oven.

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toward your own version of a Joon-ho style achievement. In what part of your life is that most likely to happen? Focus on it.

Feed it. Love it.

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “The best of my nature reveals itself

in play, and play is sacred,” wrote the feisty Aries author Karen Blixen, who sometimes used the pen name Isak Dinesen. The attitude described in that statement helps illuminate the meaning of another one of her famous quotations: “I do not think that I could ever really love a woman who had not, at one time or another, been up on a broomstick.” In my interpretation of this humorous remark, Blixen referred to the fact that she had a strong preference for witchy women with rascally magical ways. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because I’m inviting you to cultivate a Blixen-like streak of sacred play and sly magic in the coming days.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Taurus music legend Willie Nelson has

played the same guitar since 1969. He calls it “my horse,” and named it after Trigger, a famous horse in Hollywood films. Although Nelson still loves the tones that come from his instrument, it’s neither sleek nor elegant. It’s bruised with multiple stains and has a jagged gash near its sound hole. Some Tauruses want their useful things to be fine and beautiful, but not Willie. Having said that, I wonder if maybe he will finally change guitars sometime soon. For you Bulls, the coming months will be time to consider trading in an old horse for a new one.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: I’ve got a message for you, courtesy of

poet Lisel Mueller. I think her wisdom can help you thrive in the coming weeks. She writes, “The past pushed away, the future left unimagined, for the sake of the glorious, difficult, passionate present.” Of course, it’s always helpful for us to liberate ourselves from the oppressive thoughts of what once was in the past and what might be in the future. But it’ll be especially valuable for you to claim that superpower in the coming weeks. To the degree that you do, the present will be more glorious and passionate and not so difficult.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: When Lewis Carroll’s fictional heroine

Alice visits the exotic underground realm known as Wonderland, she encounters two odd men named Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The latter tells her, “You know very well you’re not real.” He’s implying that Alice is merely a character in the dream of a man who’s sleeping nearby. This upsets her. “I am real!” she protests, and breaks into tears. Tweedledum presses on, insisting she’s just a phantom. Alice summons her courageous wisdom and thinks to herself, “I know they’re talking nonsense, and it’s foolish to cry about it.” I suspect you Cancerians may have to deal with people and influences that give you messages akin to those of Tweedledum. If that happens, be like Alice.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: “The less you fear, the more power

you will have,” says the rapper known as 50 Cent. I agree with him. If you can dissolve even, say, 25% of your fear, your ability to do what you want will rise significantly, as will your influence and clout. But here’s the major riddle: How exactly can you dissolve your fear? My answers to that question would require far more room than I have in this horoscope.

But here’s the really good news, Leo: In the coming weeks, you will naturally have an abundance of good insights about to dissolve your own fear. Trust what your intuition tells you. And be receptive to clues that serendipity brings you.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: For his film Parasite, Virgo film-

maker Bong Joon-ho received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In his natal horoscope, Joon-ho has Pluto conjunct his sun in Virgo, and during the time Parasite began to score major success, Saturn and Pluto were making a favorable transit to that powerful point in his chart. I’m expecting the next six months to be a time when you can make significant progress

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: According to my analysis

of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to seek out, seduce and attract luck. To inspire you in this holy task, I’ll provide a prayer written by Hoodoo conjurer Stephanie Rose Bird: “O sweet luck, I call your name.

Luck with force and power to make change, walk with me and talk through me. With your help, all that can and should be will be!” If there are further invocations you’d like to add to hers, Libra, please do. The best way to ensure that good fortune will stream into your life is to have fun as you draw it to you.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Scorpio comedian John Cleese

does solo work, but many of his successful films, albums, stage shows and TV programs have arisen from joining forces with other comedians. “When you collaborate with someone else on something creative,” he testifies, “you get to places that you would never get to on your own.” I propose you make this your temporary motto, Scorpio. Whatever line of work or play you’re in, the coming weeks will offer opportunities to start getting involved in sterling synergies and symbioses. To overcome the potential limitations of social distancing, make creative use of Zoom and other online video conferencing.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “Wherever I am, let me never forget to

distinguish want from need,” vows author Barbara Kingsolver. “Let me be a good animal,” she adds.

That would be a stirring prayer to keep simmering at the forefront of your awareness in the next six weeks. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you’ll be getting clear signals about the differences between your wants and needs. You will also discover effective strategies about how to satisfy them both in the post-pandemic world, and fine intuitions about which one to prioritize at any particular time.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Writing some Chinese characters can

be quite demanding. To make “biáng,” for example, which is used in the name for a certain kind of noodle, you must draw 58 separate strokes. This is a good metaphor for exactly what you should avoid in the coming weeks: spending too much time and devoting too much thought and getting wrapped up in too much complexity about trivial matters. Your focus should instead be on simple, bold approaches that encourage you to be crisp and decisive.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Singer-songwriter Jill Scott is strongly

committed to her creative process. She tells us, “I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend’s house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.” My perspective: Scott’s level of devotion to the muse is too intense for my tastes. Personally, I would have taken the burger off the stove before fleeing the scene to record my good idea. What about you, Aquarius? According to my analysis, you’re in a phase when creative ideas should flow even better than usual. Pay close attention. Be prepared to capture as much of that potentially life-altering stuff as possible.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: To protect ourselves and others from

the pandemic, most of us have been spending more time than usual at home — often engaged in what amounts to enforced relaxation. For some of us, that has been a problem. But I’m going to propose that it will be the opposite of a problem for you in the next three weeks. In my astrological opinion, your words to live by will be this counsel from author and philosopher Mike Dooley: “What if it was your downtime, your lounging-in-bed-too-long time, that made possible your greatest achievements? Would they still make you feel guilty? Or would you allow yourself to enjoy them?”

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‘A whole different business model’ Aaron Uhl on opening and operating a brewery in the middle of a pandemic

by Michael J. Casey

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aron Uhl believes in excellent products and excellent service. A homebrewer for 10-plus years, Uhl hit the commercial scene in 2018 as a contract brewer — or gypsy brewer, in his words — working with Sanitas Brewing Company to brew and package his hazy IPAs and adjunctheavy stouts. The model worked, and 2019 saw a good deal of success for Uhl’s Brewing Co. But there is only so much a brewer can accomplish on someone else’s system, so when Wild Woods Brewery closed up shop in January 2020, Uhl found a place to hang up his gypsy hat.

From February to mid-March, Uhl spent 18-hour days brewing beer while reconfiguring the brewery and taproom at 5460 Conestoga Court the way he wanted it. He cleaned the joint up, revamped the tap wall and made sure everything was ready for his noon grand opening on Saturday, March 14.

Two days later, Governor Jared Polis ordered all restaurants, bars, breweries, brewpubs and taprooms closed. The timing couldn’t have been worse.

Like everything else, those immediate days and weeks following the coronavirus shutdown were a whirlwind. Uhl worked with Codi Manufacturing to get the beer on hand into cans. That took a couple of days. Labeling all 5,000, that took a week. Uhl also took advantage of the

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excess time by switching up brewing schedules to favor a barrel-aging program.

Now life has slowed to a crawl. It’s given Uhl a chance to catch his breath and reflect. Sleepless nights accompany any new business venture, but they’re supposed to get better once the business opens. Uhl hasn’t been awarded that luxury. Instead, he’s had to pivot his business model from in-person draught sales to package and distribution. Adding insult to injury: “We formed too close to the pandemic to apply for PPP [the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program].

“So, I’m floating on my own funds, and help from where I can get it,” Uhl says. “Our landlord is deferring the rent, but we don’t know what that means.”

What business will look like over the next several months is anybody’s guess: When people will be allowed in, and at what capacity. Currently, he’s trying to work with his neighbors and landlord to

increase outdoor seating.

“We need more space in order to serve more people,” he says. “I’m allotted 25% of my outdoor seating capacity at first, that’s right about 15 people.

That’s not a lot.”

Business reflects it. Though he’s got a lot of support from stores like Hazel’s, Whole Foods and Boulder Wine Merchant, sales at the brewery are hit and mostly miss: $56 one day, squat the next.

There are some bright spots: Uhl isn’t living paycheck to paycheck, so he’s better equipped to weather the storm than some. Plus, he’s already built a small following. On May 9, he released a peanut butter imperial stout made with German chocolate rye and Reese’s peanut butter sauce. The beer’s outstanding, and Uhl sold out in a few hours.

“People want to try the new thing,” Uhl says. “They want to go to the source.

They want to hear the story. They want to see the can.”

They’ll have that opportunity on May 30, when Uhl’s Brewing Co. releases six new beers. Looking further ahead, Uhl plans to release new beers every couple of weeks — on a model heavily reliant on distribution.

Packaging and distribution, by the way, happen to be the hardest and least efficient way of making money in the beer business. For Uhl and the rest of Boulder County brewers, it’s going to be a long summer.

Advice from Left Hand’s Eric Wallace BACK IN MARCH, there was hope that all of this would blow over in a couple of weeks. Those couple of weeks morphed into a couple of months, which may turn into a couple of years.

“We’re planning, based on a 12to 18-month vaccine availability, we’re planning on two years of hell,” Left Hand co-founder Eric Wallace told Jamie Bogner on the Craft Beer & Brewing podcast. “And then I’m looked at a three to five-plus year dig out.”

Five to seven years has become the average lifespan of a small brewery in the best of times.

In the worst?

Even with restaurants opening to 50% capacity of indoor seating, the future looks unstable. To that aim, the former Brewers Association Board of Directors Vice Chair added: “Be realistic,” Wallace continued. “Consider your long-term options. Don’t go further into debt to try to save something that can’t be saved.”

Listen to Wallace and Bogner’s full conversation at beerandbrewing. com/podcast-episode-134-eric-wallace-of-left-hand-on-navigating-thecovid-19/.

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ell, this could be fun.

On May 25, Gov. Jared Polis outlined the state’s rules for reopening restaurants; a day later, the Boulder Chamber of Commerce hosted an information session with city and state health officials that covered just how restaurants in Boulder will be able to amend their services this summer to accommodate health guidelines.

To reiterate, this really could be fun.

Starting May 27, restaurants will be able to use outdoor space in front of, next to and behind their buildings to seat diners outdoors. They’ll be able to provide live music and feature local art. You might find yourself under a cozy canopy or at a patio table in a secluded alley or dining under the stars on the Pearl Street bricks.

In order to accommodate the changes, the City has expedited its review process — restaurants submit their plans online, start making changes, an inspector comes out within a day or two, and within three days, open-air dining can commence. Local fees for these new permits have been waived. The implementation of this quick timeline comes immediately after the state’s reopening plans were wafted to restaurants late last week, and formally introduced on Monday.

“Restaurants in Boulder are really important to the city economy so we knew we had to act quickly,” said Charles Ferro, coordinator of Boulder’s Economic Recovery Task Force, in the info session.

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retail spaces will be allowed to use sidewalks, parking lots, alleyways and certain roadways to extend their boundaries.

They can use up to 50% capacity of their space to seat diners. Tables will be sited six feet apart both indoors and outdoors, and state guidance says restaurant staff will require guests to wear masks in both spaces when they’re not eating (and restaurant staff will get temperature checks, wear masks and either wash hands regularly or wear gloves).

Outdoor spaces that abut closed roads will have access to some of the roadways, as long as enough space is left for emergency vehicles to pass through. So far, the City has determined Pearl Street between 9th and 11th (and alleys) will be closed, as well University Hill between Pennsylvania and 13th Street.

Outdoor spaces will need to be clearly defined from one another through some sort of fencing — it could be potted plants or a mural or a real-life fence. The City is coordinating an effort to connect local artists to restaurants to fill out their outdoor dining spaces.

If they or the City don’t own the parking spaces adjacent to their buildings, restaurants and retail spaces will have to work with their landlords to determine how much space they can use and if there is a fee. Too, City Council has discussed offering a leasing or payment assistance program for additional tables, chairs, umbrellas, etc.

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be allowed until 9 p.m. Though Lane Drager, with Boulder County health, said in the session it will be imperative for businesses to ensure there isn’t a globbing together of people to enjoy that music.

This expanded outdoor dining program will run through the summer, concluding on Sept. 30.

Pickup and delivery service will likely continue at many of these restaurants, but the big thing for these in-person dining changes, is that they’re likely to be a huge boost for restaurant revenues. Even if folks are hesitant to come back, the hope is that every week will bring more and more diners and we’ll soon have places where you can’t place a reservation even if you wanted one.

Some restaurants have been anticipating the changes. The Walnut Café, for instance, which will open on May 29, has put up plastic partitions between booths with staff members planning to be fully decked in protective equipment. The restaurant group wrote a hopeful message to the community announcing their changes, while also asking for grace from diners during this time: “Please don’t go to these businesses and complain about changes that were forced upon them due to lost revenue, lost employees, new policies and protocols. They don’t have the same business they had two months ago.”

Flagstaff House is reopening for dinner service on May 28. Its spacious indoor dining room allows for social distancing, but so does its outdoor covered MAY 28, 2020

terrace. Reservations for the patio and window seats (as always) are recommended. It’ll also be instituting further safety guidelines.

Some restaurants, of course, will need time to get their outdoor dining spaces ready and safe for diners.

Blackbelly wrote on Facebook that outdoor dining is coming, but it may take a few weeks.

“The sudden announcement by our governor, while appreciated, was done without enough notice for us to adequately prepare our spaces. We are working quickly to accommodate all of our guests’ needs, while maintaining the highest standards of safety and health for everyone, including our own employees. … We hope to get this ready as soon as possible, but this will not be rushed.”

And other restaurants have used this as a time to change their models. Arcana, which switched to a takeout/delivery model during the pandemic, is taking its time to reorganize: “We’ve been dreaming about a big evolution at Arcana for a while, we’re going for it. When we reopen our doors later in the summer, there will be something new, different and exciting at Arcana,” the company wrote in a social media post.

Further details will follow on what other roads will be closed, and certainly we’ll see just how fruitful this new era of summer dining will for restaurants, but one thing is clear: If we’re safe and kind and mindful of others, this could be a lot of fun.

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The return of three-dot journalism... politics never sleeps edition...

By Paul Danish

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eep in his heart... he does believe... that on a high note,” she said, adding that a number of they’ll smoke legal pot someday... New York capital projects that were put on hold wouldn’t Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week said “I believe have been if the legislature had legalized pot durwe will” legalize marijuana in New York, but ing its regular session... “The projections are nearhe isn’t setting a date... Cuomo was asked ly $100 million of recurring revenue into the budduring a coronavirus presser why the state hasn’t get” from legal pot, she said, also pointing out that legalized marijuana as a way to generate revenue “the vast majority of New Mexicans favor recrerather than depending on federal largesse. He replied ational cannabis.” that it was part of the feds’ job managing the national One Democrat who has a really hard time with the response to the epidemic to provide state governments with financial relief GAGE SKIDMORE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “just the way they took care of big corporations”... Then he added, “I support legalization of marijuana passage. I’ve worked very hard to pass it,” and, “I believe we will” pass it... He said New York “didn’t get it done last session because it’s a complicated issue and it has to be done in a comprehensive way”... Funny, it wasn’t too complicated for the rubes in Colorado.

Cuomo and his fellow Democratic governors in New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island have pretty much been all hat and no cattle when it comes to marijuana legalization; all have supported legalization bills but haven’t been able to get them through their legislatures... So far the most successful one has been New Jersey’s Phil Murphy, who at least convinced his legislature to put a legalization measure on the state’s November ballot. concept (of legal pot, that is) is likely presidential Another Democratic governor who hasn’t been nominee Joe Biden... He says, “No one should be able to get a legalization bill through her legislature going to jail for a drug crime, period...” and that it is New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham, and she “makes no sense” for people to go to jail for pot, but isn’t taking it lying down. Asked at the end of a he still opposes marijuana legalization… Why? press conference whether she favored passage of “Because they’re trying to find out whether or not a recreational use legalization bill during an there is any impact on the use of marijuana — not in upcoming special session due to consider fundrais- leading you to other drugs. But does it affect longing measures to offset the revenue hemorrhage term development of the brain? And we should wait caused by the coronavirus epidemic... “Let’s end until the studies are done. I think science matters.”

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Biden made the remarks in the course of his now-infamous interview on Charlamagne tha God’s radio show... prompting C. tha G. to remark, “I think we got decades and decades of studies from actual weed smokers though”... “Yeah, I do. I know a lot of weed smokers,” the candidate retorted... The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Executive Director Erik Altieri was not amused... “If Joe Biden truly was friends with many marijuana consumers he would know what the overwhelming majority of Americans know — that millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens partake in cannabis and prohibition is an utter failure that destroys communities and families.

“Outside of elite political circles, there are still over 600,000 individuals arrested every year for simple possession and the vast majority of those targeted are black and brown Americans...

Joe, more than anyone, needs to get on the right side of history when it comes to marijuana policy, given he is the architect of many of the laws that gave rise to the drug war and mass incarceration in the first place”...

In other news... According to a study published in the Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, marijuana legalization resulted in a spike in Colorado tourism, as measured by how many additional nightly motel room rentals were racked up after legalization... Following legalization in November 2012 (it seems like only yesterday) there were 51,000 additional nightly motel room rentals per month in the state... and after the beginning of marijuana sales at the start of 2014, that figure climbed to an additional 120,000 nightly rentals per month... The numbers for Washington state, which legalized at the same time as Colorado but began sales six months later, were about half of Colorado’s.

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