{"id":2452745,"date":"2019-12-30T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/times-needs-logical-conservative-voice\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T15:18:14","slug":"times-needs-logical-conservative-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/times-needs-logical-conservative-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Times needs logical conservative voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I write to endorse the views expressed by Fred Malo Jr. (<a id=\"N0x295ba40N0x28c43c0:N0x295ba40N0x298f5d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-aspen-times-can-up-its-game\/\">\u201cThe Aspen Times can up its game,\u201d<\/a> Dec. 28, aspentimes.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One can be conservative without being nasty or mean. Today, the world needs more conservative writers, especially at time when governments seem bent on spending without any budgetary controls and willingly letting monopolists charge Americans far more for the same services than consumers in other countries. (Read \u201cThe Great Reversal\u201d by Thomas Philippon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">One also can be conservative and seek to protect the environment from destruction by global warming. My friend, Jerry Taylor, left the Cato Institute to found the Niskanen Center. His goal is to push to address the problem of global warming from a very conservative approach. While we differ in views, we are friends and would never dream of engaging in vituperative attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jerry named his center for one of the nicest, most conservative economists I have ever known. Bill Niskanen would defend the free market to the end. A man of principle, Bill even resigned as Ford\u2019s chief economist when the company pushed for tariffs on Japanese autos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If the goal of a column is to convince readers and push rationality (something that Aspen really needs) then the Times\u2019 next columnist needs to be an individual who seeks to convince readers of the benefits of the conservative approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Philip Verleger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Denver<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/times-needs-logical-conservative-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write to endorse the views expressed by Fred Malo Jr. (\u201cThe Aspen Times can up its game,\u201d Dec. 28, aspentimes.com) One can be conservative without being nasty or mean. Today, the world needs more conservative writers, especially at time when governments seem bent on spending without any budgetary controls and willingly letting monopolists charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:26:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452761,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452745\/revisions\/2452761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}