by Mark Smiley | Dec 22, 2014 | General Featured
by Brent New
Writer for and on behalf of the City of Glendale
There’s an awakening in Steve Lynch’s eyes — a feeling that after a seven-week journey in rugby-stalwart New Zealand, Lynch has grasped onto a whole new level of understanding for the sport that he has loved for more than a quarter of a century.
The longtime Glendale Raptors coach was encased in something of Rugby Rhapsody, calling his recent trip to play in the prestigious Four Nations Maritime Rugby Cup one of the most valuable experiences of his coaching career.
“I learned more about rugby in the past seven weeks in New Zealand than I have in the past 10 years I’ve coached,” Lynch said. “The experience and the people I met were unbelievable. It’s something I’ll never forget.”
As far as what it means for the Raptors’ growth and success, time will tell. And when and if it does, it will probably be hard to sort his experience from all of the other happenings that will go on to define the organization.
Nonetheless, Lynch is eager to spread his newfound knowledge in an effort to help better the Raptors.
“We realized what things we really need to focus on with our guys,” Lynch said. “We saw what it takes to be elite ruggers and I am excited to bring that experience back here.”
Lynch, who is also the Director of Rugby for the Navy, transformed 28 active-duty service men with rugby experience into full-time ruggers to compete in the 30-year-old tournament in Devonport, New Zealand.
Certainly a slim-to-none favorite in the tournament, and maybe even less than that, his patched-together team actually held its own through most of its matches against the seasoned navy teams from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. But eventually the U.S. fell in all of its matches and watched rugby power New Zealand upset the United Kingdom for the tournament championship.
The next Four Nations Maritime Rugby Cup will take place in 2017.
“We kind of knew that these were teams who were on another level than we were,” Lynch said. “We had players who played on different temporary club teams around the world, while these teams were full of full-time players that have been together for years. These players have been playing the game their whole lives. It’s like being Alabama in football and playing the Broncos.”
Didn’t feel like a loss though. At least once things settled.
Josh Barry, a homegrown Raptors youth star who played on the U.S. military team, said the tournament helped him realize what it takes to compete at an elite level. When asked about it, he vowed to learn from it and bring his skills to the Raptors’ organization this winter.
“Just the technique and skill of those players was unbelievable,” said Barry, who finished his service two months ago and is currently trying out for the Raptors’ Pacific Rugby Premiership team. “We weren’t elite like the other teams. We definitely saw what it takes to be the best.
“You never want to lose, but we were able to take away experiences that changed all of us for the better. We’re better and smarter players because of this trip, even if we didn’t get the result we wanted.”
The U.S. team’s biggest prize may have come before the tournament anyway.
The makeshift squad spent more than three weeks of training for the tournament, some of it with the likes of international rugby talents such as former New Zealand All Blacks captain and renowned rugby coach Buck Shelford.
The feedback was eye-opening, Lynch said. The international stars said they were impressed with the conditioning and athleticism of the U.S. players, but were just as astounded with the lack of technical skills that accompanied that raw talent.
The team’s focus was clear from there.
“Shelford is a celebrity in the rugby world. To work with him was so invaluable,” Lynch said. “These guys helped us really see that we don’t have the fundamentals down like we need to. I mean the great players perfect it and practice the fundamentals relentlessly. We aren’t close to where we should be in those skills.”
Lynch, who returned to Glendale late last year to coach the High-Performance Academy and help with the men’s team, has already been a pioneer in growing the game of rugby in the United States.
Now, he said he is eager to help take the sport he loves to the next level. And luckily for the Raptors, he’ll start in Glendale.
“Had a couple of drinks with the coaches over there and they believe America is kind of a sleeping giant in rugby,” Lynch said. “If we start perfecting the fundamentals to go along with our superior athleticism, we would dominate the sport. That’s exciting to hear.”
by Mark Smiley | Dec 22, 2014 | Main Articles
As Ohio And Other States Seek Ban
by Glen Richardson
Various members of the Denver City Council are reportedly pressuring the police to expand the city’s photo radar camera operation in light of the city raking in over $34 million in less than five years from citizens. The city has red light cameras at four intersections and five roaming vans to ticket speeders.
The push is being made notwithstanding various states are considering banning their use including Ohio which would require officers to witness any violation first-hand. The bill passed the Ohio House 58-31 and is expected to pass the Senate and be signed by Governor John Kasich. A similar statewide ban was passed by the Colorado State Senate last year only to die in the State House due to pressure from Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Governor John Hickenlooper, a former mayor of Denver. The State of Missouri may put a ban to a statewide vote pursuant to bill introduced to the Missouri General Assembly.
At the same time the so-called “bagman” for red light camera company Redflex Traffic Systems, pleaded guilty to bribing a city worker to rig a $124 million contract in return for kickbacks. It is expected he will testify against Redflex CEO Karen Finlay on bribery charges. Redflex operated in Denver and other cities in Colorado in the past and the possibility of bribery charges being brought in Colorado is still purportedly a possibility.
Changing The Rules
The rise in revenues was in part generated when the red light camera, Xerox State and Local Solutions, was allowed to redefine what was running a red light from actually entering the intersection to touching any part of the preceding white crosswalk. Denver remains the only jurisdiction in Colorado that defines running a red light as just touching a white crosswalk. In Florida and other jurisdictions red light companies discovered that by shortening yellow lights by small amounts they could dramatically increase revenues although it also dramatically increased accidents.
Denver never adopted this technique due to the fact that the shortened yellow light gambit became a national scandal in places it was secretly implemented. The Denver Police Department claimed the four locations where red light cameras were installed, cut down accidents by 65 percent. But ABC Channel 7 News discovered the real reasons accidents were down is that at the same time, they increased yellow lights. In four other intersections in which longer yellow lights were also implemented, but no red light cameras installed, accidents were down 57 percent.
Denver also has five photo radar vans that bring in the majority of funds for the city. In theory the vans can be moved anywhere in the city, but are not. One van is almost incessantly parked on Speer Boulevard/1st Avenue across from the Denver Country Club. The reason is readily apparent — the six lane road does not appear to be a road where the speed limit would logically reduce from the standard 35 mph to 30 mph. Motorists often travel at what they believe is a reasonable 40 mph and get regularly ticketed providing literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenues to the city. It has been noted that if the city had one of its photometric speed display trailers, which informs the motorist how fast he or she is traveling above the posted limit, it would be much more effective, but would provide no money to the city coffers.
Chief Of Police White
Destroys Personal Credibility
City Auditor Dennis Gallagher’s office reviewed the city’s photo radar in 2011 and found that it had done little to clearly show any purpose other than bringing in revenues. The report declared, “Unfortunately, DPD [Denver Police Department] has not demonstrated that the photo radar program has a positive impact on public safety. Because these programs were sold as public safety enhancements, but are widely viewed as a cash grab, it undermines public trust to maintain photo enforcement programs that are profitable, but whose safety impact has not been conclusively shown. If this situation persists, then the photo enforcement programs should be shut down.”
In response DPD refused to provide any studies and simply claimed no study could be conducted that would satisfy the auditor’s concerns.
Notwithstanding Chief White’s claim, the Chicago Tribune on December 19 in a front page story reported that a scientific study was in fact just performed on the country’s largest red light camera program in Chicago. It found, despite Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s claims to the contrary, red light cameras did not reduce injury-related crashes overall, but simply resulted in more rear-end accidents, while reducing so-called “T-bone” crashes.
As the photo radar enforcement program is highly unpopular among some voters, elected officials in Denver have generally refused to go on camera to try to justify its retention. The task has been delegated to Chief of Police Robert White who is appointed by the mayor. He has gone on Channel 7 and other stations and claimed the sole and only purpose of the program is “public safety.” Since such an assertion appears on its face wholly or at least partially untrue, he has lost credibility with some citizens at a time when police are under fire across the country.
“White is clearly lying. We know that at least part of the rationale is money and for him to claim otherwise is pathetic,” stated Denver resident Trish Abbott. She also noted, “White goes on Channel 7 and gives a bald lie right to the camera. In an age of ‘you can keep your doctor, if you like your doctor’ and the ‘United States doesn’t torture’ we are sick and tired of lying politicians and bureaucrats. At a time when the police department badly needs to build public trust, he throws it all away for nothing to provide cover for Hancock and members of the City Council.”
Citizen Revolt
Denver citizens are increasingly refusing to pay the photo radar enforcement tickets they receive in the mail as only 65 percent of the tickets are now paid. Under the applicable statute, Denver tickets must be sent by certified mail or personally served within 90 days of issuance and if not the ticket must be expunged. The Gallagher report suggested the law be changed, but to date it has not been.
City Council Extends
On December 15 the Denver City Council approved by a vote of 12 to 1 the extension of the existing contract, in theory, to allow competitive bidding for an expanded program with more red light cameras and more photo radar vans. The only dissenting vote was that of Jeanne Faatz who pointed out the absurdity of the crosswalk violation and the lack of any conclusive evidence on public safety. “Some people love them, I don’t,” City Councilwoman Faatz said. “…my feeling is that issuing tickets for people who cross the white line is knit picking. It’s more of a revenue raiser than a safety measure.” On December 16, City Auditor Gallagher sent out a letter in which he noted at the public hearing that “I never heard any talk about proving that these two programs actually improve public safety.”
by Mark Smiley | Dec 22, 2014 | Main Articles
Will RNOs Weigh In On Election May 5?
by Mark Smiley
Denver’s municipal election is set for May 5 which includes the mayor and the entire 13 member City Council. While there is dissatisfaction with Mayor Michael Hancock in some neighborhoods throughout the city, he has not drawn any serious election opposition. Thus all the attention and funding has shifted to the Denver City Council races. Five present City Council members are term limited and Chris Nevitt has decided to run for the city auditor position.
RNOs
Denver has over 100 registered neighborhood organizations (RNOs) as well as an umbrella group called the Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation or INC. Average citizens interact with the government of the City and County of Denver through their neighborhood organizations or direct contact with their city councilmember or the member’s staff. During election season council members tend to be very solicitous of the neighborhood groups and are happy to attend their meetings. Following the election and for the next four years many council members want nothing to do with neighborhood groups and often privately disparage them.
Many Denver council members between elections also refuse to interact with average citizens except in highly orchestrated group meetings arranged by their respective staff. Citizens who attend city council meetings to oppose an action the city wants to take are often ignored or even harangued or laughed at by some city council members. The reason is simple. Incumbent Denver City Council members virtually never lose re-election no matter how incompetent or corrupt they may be. Thus what citizens and neighborhood groups think of their city representative is generally irrelevant.
Who Controls Denver And Courtesy Zoning
The people who do matter are real estate developers and unions who are the overwhelming source of campaign funds. Only they would have the resources to challenge an incumbent. The primary power that a city council member has is control of all zoning revisions and development in his or her district. City Council has informally adopted the practice of “courtesy zoning” whereby the councilmember in whose district a development is located will be deferred to. Thus when citizens attend a Denver City Council member to oppose a development they are literally wasting their time.
If a rezoning or a development is before the City Council it means the city council member has indicated that he or she approves of it and it will pass by an overwhelming margin regardless of the merits or citizen opposition. Since Denver City Council members are required by law not to decide on so-called quasi-judicial matters until after all of the public input the concept of courtesy zoning would appear to be illegal or even criminal according to some municipal experts. Nonetheless, the practice of courtesy zoning continues unabated in 21st century Denver. The practice allows a real estate developer to grease the pocket of only the city councilmember in whose district his development is located, saving a great deal of time, money and effort.
Labor Union Controlled
Two of Denver’s 13 council members are elected at large and do not have defined districts. Thus developers are uninterested in these at-large seats leaving the positions to be controlled by the labor unions, particularly SEIU. At-large elections can be very expensive since they cover the whole city. A challenge to an incumbent at-large councilmember who has remained in the good graces with the unions is generally considered an almost impossibility. Denver’s two at-large members, Robin Kneich and Debbie Ortega, are generally considered in the back pocket of the labor unions and are viewed by some as poorly informed council members. Nonetheless they are running unopposed this election.
There are however potentially highly competitive races for many of the remaining 11 seats. In addition to the six open seats there may be additional competitive races due to redistricting. According to Denver law, the city must be redistricted at least once every 10 years to ensure that each Council member is representing a similar number of residents so that the concept of “one person, one vote” is maintained. In 2011, City Council reconfigured the boundaries for Denver’s 11 City Council districts creating a great deal of controversy. These new boundaries will take effect this coming election, May 5, 2015.
While it is generally held that a viable candidate needs to be engaged by the beginning of the new year, legally speaking March 11, 2015, is the deadline to submit petitions which need at least 100 signatures for council and 300 for auditor, mayor, and at-large seats.
District 10
One of the most interesting races is in District 10, located in central Denver. Jeanne Robb is completing her third and final term in office which will leave her seat available for a viable candidate. Recently, Roger Sherman, an executive at the public affairs firm CRL Associates announced he was withdrawing from the race. His initial candidacy papers were filed in March 2013 and he was considered to be a strong candidate for developers.
Wayne New, a former president of the Cherry Creek North Neighborhood Association, is now the only declared candidate, at press time. Two other individuals have revealed an interest in running. Anna Jones, a Congress Park resident and a community development consultant who is vice president at Progressive Urban Management Associates, says she plans to launch a campaign. Alicia Economos, vice president of outreach and development for the group Democrats for Education Reform, also indicated plans to file her paperwork, but apparently has recently changed her mind.
Wayne New’s message focuses on what he sees as the over-development of Cherry Creek and a disregard for neighborhood interests in city planning decisions. “For years, our neighborhood voices have not been respected or even welcomed in City planning and decision-making,” said New. “I have a proven record of almost 15 years of strongly advocating the need for “balance” to protect our neighborhoods from excessive traffic, inadequate parking, and over-development that adversely impacts our quality of life. I will help lead us toward a more responsive, more accountable City government.”
District 6
Another district of note to Chronicle readers is District 6 in Southeast Denver. The owner of the Washington Park Profile Paul Kashmann faces Elizabeth Adams to succeed term limited Councilmember Charlie Brown who has served on the council since 2001. The redrawn District 6 will now represent the following neighborhoods: Harvard Gulch/Rosedale, Washington Park, University, Bonnie Brae, Cory-Merrill, University Park, Virginia Village/Ellis, Virginia Vale, Cook Park and Indian Creek. Portions of the new District 6 stretch as far west as Broadway, east past Quebec Street, as far north as Speer Blvd., and south to Dartmouth Ave.
Best Of The Rest
Six candidates have stepped forward to take over Chris Nevitt’s vacated seat in District 7, located in South-Central Denver. Luchia Ann Brown, Jolon Clark, Aaron Greco, Ian Harwick, Mickki Langston and Jacob Hunter Viano have declared their candidacy.
Far Southwest District 2 is vacated by term limited councilmember Jeanne Faatz. Five individuals have declared their candidacy: Nathaniel Cole, Fran Coleman, Kevin Flynn, Corrie Houck and John E. Kidd Jr. Far Southeast District 4 has been represented by Peggy Lehman since 2003. Four candidates have declared: Kendra Alexis Valis Black, Jeffrey Allen Garcia, William George McMullen and Halisi Vinson.
Judy Montero from District 9 has served on the council since 2003 and is term limited. Albus Brooks, who currently represents District 8, is now running in the new District 9. He is faced by Michael Borcherding, the founder of a sport and social club called Mile High Gives.
With Chris Herndon now running for a council seat in District 8, District 11 has five challengers: Sean Bradley, Shelli Brown, Samaria J. Crews, Stacie Gilmore, and Tea Schook.
Potentially the most endangered incumbent is District 1’s Susan Shepherd running against challenger Rafael Espinoza. Shepherd was elected as a labor union candidate but once in office quickly also became the friend of real estate developers. When she supported a massive redevelopment of a portion of the West Highlands citizens protested and eventually sued the city. While the lawsuit was ultimately dismissed her and her husband’s thuggish behavior toward neighborhood activists enraged the district.
Espinoza emphasizes that he is an architect and community activist who has fought the city administration before and running on a platform putting constitutes first. Shepherd will have the strong financial backers of the labor unions and the real estate developers which have successful rebuffed citizen-backed candidates many times before.
Role For Neighborhoods?
The question is what role RNOs and INC will play in the election as a possible counterbalance to the labor unions and real estate developers. It is not expected they will have an overt role since they are not per se political entities, but individual members of the groups are organizing to fight what they see as a corrupt and dishonest zoning and development process.
Moreover, INC has developed a platform for allowing neighborhoods to have a bigger role in developments across the city. The platform would prohibit higher density developments where the same would worsen traffic and parking. A city council candidate’s support or refusal to support the platform will help inform voters of where that person stands on reasonable growth in Denver’s neighborhoods.
Will 2015 be the year of citizens and neighborhood groups or the usual formidable duo of labor unions and real estate developers? For the first time in many a year the answer to that question is not clear, which should make this spring’s Denver municipal election an interesting one.
by Mark Smiley | Dec 22, 2014 | Glendale City News
by Marco Cummings
Writer for and on behalf of the 
City of Glendale
Glendale Raptors head coach Andre Snyman is no shaman; and he can’t predict the future. But the South African offered up a few words of wisdom when asked about his team’s start of a new campaign entering the 2015 Pacific Rugby Premiership (PRP) season.
“When you’re on the top of the mountain, everyone wants to knock you down. The tallest tree catches the most wind.”
After entering last season as a proverbial sapling amongst bigger and more established clubs within the PRP, the Raptors surprised many by riding the winds all the way to the championship final, only to fall short to San Francisco Golden Gate.
The Raptors entered 2014 widely regarded as underdogs, but the team’s second place finish also places a target on their backs entering a new season in 2015.
“Everyone picked us to finish dead last and that was a driving force throughout the season,” Raptors team captain Zach Fenoglio said of last season’s campaign. “Now, our driving force is to regain our confidence and prove to the competition that we’re a tough team and tough to play against.”
Proving themselves to the competition is just one of several small goals the Raptors have set up for themselves for a new season of PRP play. The team’s ultimate goal for the New Year is to once again make the final, but this time emerge as champions.
Glendale’s method to winning the Pacific Rugby Premiership crown appears simple in theory, but will take a great deal of effort in practice.
“If we want to win the PRP this season we’ll have to improve on all of the aspects from last year.” Snyman explained. “Our skill level has to be higher, our physical level needs to be higher and our defense needs to improve.”
The improvement for the Raptors began in the offseason. This past fall, the Raptors scheduled a slate of games, which included collegiate opponents Lindenwood and Arkansas State as well as the Aspen Ruggerfest, where the team got a taste of hardware as tournament champions.
The majority of the progress Glendale has made during the offseason has not been on the pitch, but in the weight room. After performi
ng a calculated series of tests measuring each player’s physical fitness, the coaching staff placed the team on a regimented strength and conditioning program.
Weeks later, the players were reassessed and the tests revealed a minimum of 10 percent improvement in both weight and repetitions.
Results in hand, the Raptors hope to gain a physical edge over their opponents. Strength is certainly key in a sport like rugby, but so is the ability to outrun and outlast an opponent. The Raptors hope to have enhanced that ability with added depth to the team’s roster.
Said Snyman, “I’ve got about 90 percent of the players from last season back this season. That in itself is a lot. If you can keep continuity within the team that’s a huge contribution to success.”
It’s not simply depth, but quality depth in which Glendale hopes to invest its championship aspirations throughout the course of the 2015 season. Snyman is hopeful that with the remaining 10 percent of new players added, the Raptors have found players that are capable at playing at a high level within the PRP.
One of these “new” faces is a familiar one. Twenty-one-year-old Cody Melphy, a longtime member of Glendale’s developmental programs, is one of several young players Snyman hopes to provide opportunities to throughout the course of the PRP season. Melphy proved to be a factor during the Raptors’ summer 7s season and has since been training with the first team men.
“A player like Cody Melphy has got all the skill and the character to play at that level,” commented Snyman. “The only thing he’s lacking is experience. My job as a coach is to get him that experience whether I start him or bring him in as an impact player. He will definitely be a contributor to the team because he’s a very versatile player.”
Another newcomer to Glendale’s first team is Jake Turnbull. Like Melphy, the Australian has been auditioning throughout the course of the summer and fall alongside a mix of veterans and newcomers.
In fact, keeping everyone happy yet competitive within the group is what Snyman believes will be his biggest challenge as a coach this season, aside from the Raptors’ opponents.
“As a coach, selecting a starting lineup is going to be tough,” he said. “We have at least two or three players who could start at each position.”
But from a player’s perspective, the competition is welcome and healthy, as the team’s captain was quick to point out.
“I think the more competitive training can be, the better. The flexibility of depth is something we’re continuing to work on and haven’t had in the past. In a physical sport like rugby, injuries happen. Having confidence in the guy behind you is a good way to go about the season,” Fenoglio explained.
Competition within the group is just another tool that the Raptors hope to use to propel the team back to the top entering the new season.
“Obviously we have our expectations set pretty high,” Fenoglio added. “We have small and big term goals that will help us throughout the year.”
The Raptors will have a full 14-week season to complete these smaller goals en-route to accomplishing their grander task at hand. Fans will get their first glimpse at the newly energized and determined Raptors when they travel to face OMBAC in their first game of the season on Jan. 31.
by Mark Smiley | Dec 22, 2014 | Editorials
— A Modest Proposal
There has probably never been a time as difficult as the present to be a Denver municipal peace officer whether in the police or sheriff’s departments. Everyone is more than happy to tell you exactly why you suck and there does not appear to be anyone who seeks to back you up from the President of the United States, the U.S. attorney general, the mayor of Denver and even the police chief of Denver. Across the country protesters are screaming “What do we want — Dead Cops. When do we want it — Now.”
In Denver they almost got what they wanted during the Ferguson protests outside East High School. A driver, who was cheering the students on, ran into four police officers on bicycles, dragging Officer John Adsit under his car, almost killing him. A police union official indicated that the protesters cheered and chanted “hit him again.” So deep is the suspicion of Mayor Michael Hancock and Police Chief Robert White that when they declared the incident to be an accident caused by the driver’s medical condition, many people simply assumed that they were lying. Believe it or not there was a time when most of the Denver public assumed the opposite — that most police officers told the truth most of the time. Now police officers in Denver will be required to wear body cameras because the public does not believe much of what they are told by the Denver Police Department.
The police have traditionally counted on support from older citizens. The Greatest Generation had a high level of respect for law enforcement. But that generation is quickly disappearing and is replaced by Baby Boomers, some of whom grew up calling police officers “pigs.” President Obama has demonstrated that he does not support police whether in Cambridge, New York City or Ferguson. Attorney General Holder clearly views many police departments as “racist” even if in places like New York City where the police force demographics mirror the racial composition of the city.
In Denver the sorry spectacle at the Denver City Jail has not helped with embarrassing videos coming out seemingly daily. Denver citizens do not regularly distinguish between Denver police officers and Denver deputy sheriffs and perhaps there is no reason why they should. Denver law enforcement is Denver law enforcement. The six millio
n dollar verdict handed out in the Marvin Booker wrongful death case in United States District Court in October certainly indicates that the city is in a great deal of trouble if a case of excessive force by a Denver law enforcement officer reaches a Denver jury.
Mayor Hancock is definitely not a fan of the rank and file of the Denver Police Department. He has worked hard to be sure that the firing of Denver cops, which are almost all rank and file and never the brass, is made easier and more expeditious. When he went to look for a new police chief it was clear he was not going to promote from within the Denver Police Department. Chief Robert White has taken a number of meritorious actions in shoring up the department including making sure that more officers are walking a beat and not sitting behind a desk.
But White has no history with the Denver police force and he owes his job and allegiance to Michael Hancock, even to the point of lying straight into television cameras in declaring that the sole purpose of photo radar cameras was public safety while refusing the demands of the City Auditor and others to conduct any studies to back up his claims. While Hancock may not be a fan of rank and file police officers he does strongly support photo radar cameras and apparently is adamant that no studies occur lest they threaten a growing revenue bonanza.
So where do law enforcement officers in Denver go to get support? It is not the police union which was long ago discredited by its actions in supporting police officers no matter how heinous the purported misconduct.
No it is going to have to be from average everyday citizens whom the officers are sworn to serve and protect. Earning that support, which has been by and large lost, will not be easy. The bigwigs in Denver have cast the average police officer into the wind. The only port in this storm for everyday Denver cops is the common man and woman. An alliance of everyday people and the rank and file police could be in its own way revolutionary. No longer would there be one set of rules for the elite and another for the rest of us. No more John TV while the mayor has been and maybe still is an important patron of prostitutes. No more special license plates for politicians which evade the ever present Denver photo radar cameras while citizens literally pay millions in fines every year. A citizens’ police force and not the politicians’ police force. It’s worth giving it a try. Ultimately it will take changes to the Denver City Charter to get the police out from the politicians’ grasp, but it can be done and should be done.
— Editorial Board
