Feb. 12 is Lunar New Year, a celebration that marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendars traditional to many east Asian countries – including China, South Korea, and Vietnam. With the Year of the Ox kicking off Friday, Denver is one of hundreds of cities around the world celebrating the event. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has curtailed a lot of the festivities that usually surround a Lunar New Year, The Asian Chamber of Commerce in Denver hopes to provide socially distant options for those interested in enjoying it.
The ACC is an organization that provides economic development and business opportunities for its members. Chairman Travis A. Tom and President Fran Campbell spoke to Nuggets.com about the organization and how it has adjusted around COVID-19 as well as how it plans to highlight the Lunar New Year.
Bob Merski
Judicial philosophy should not be partisan, and it certainly should not be geographical.
But a bill circulating through our state legislature right now threatens to make it both. House Bill 38 would abolish the statewide elections by which Pennsylvanians choose appellate court judges and replace those elections with races held in partisan districts drawn by lawmakers.
With the power to draw the district lines for choosing judges, legislators would be able to apply improper influence on a judiciary that is supposed to be impartial and independent.
It’s a measure that would politicize our courts, give the state legislature undue influence in choosing judges, and snatch power out of the hands of Pennsylvania’s voters, where it belongs. Instead of having the power to elect 31 judges and justices, voters would be limited to just three choices one Commonwealth Court judge, one Superior Court judge, and one Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice.