After sending daily emails to the sponsors of SB24-020 on alcohol takeout and delivery with no response at all, it occurred to me that maybe my emails were going to their spam folders and that they aren’t seeing them, so I sent a letter to the editor of The Denver Post hoping they’d run it and that the bill’s sponsors might then see it. It was a chance worth taking. They published it in today’s print edition Friday, February 9, 2024 with the title Time for state to deliver help to heavy drinkers. And no, I didn’t come up with that, they did. (Their Forum editor CJ is really good.) Hopefully, the bill’s sponsors will see it.

As I wrote in the letter and in the testimony, we can celebrate our state’s successful alcohol industry and enjoy home delivery of it while also acknowledging and addressing the fallout of that success. It is not an unreasonable ask.

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Post Author: Krystyn Hartman is a graduate student in the Masters of Public Policy program at the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs. This site is a test research project.

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