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Importing beef is not the solution | GABEL

Updated 7 minutes ago

Last week, I wrote, “As usual, cattle producers are waiting on the other shoe drop and trying to read the tea leaves and make the...

PERSPECTIVE: Spending more on fewer students

Updated 12 hours ago

Many Colorado voters will vote on school board candidates this fall. As voters look for resources to understand better the health and wellness of their school...

How to build faith in Colorado’s mail-in ballots | CALDARA

Updated 12 hours ago

Here’s a little news story that deserves a ton more attention. Elizabeth Ann Davis, 61, of Castle Rock was convicted of voter fraud. She illegally...

EDITORIAL: More reason to VOTE NO on Denver’s 2A-2E

Updated 3 days ago

There are plenty of sound reasons to oppose Denver’s nearly $1 billion bond proposal — Issues 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D and 2E on this fall’s...

Judge halts Lakewood’s shell game | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 4 days ago

EDITORIAL: A new source of doctors for rural Colorado

Updated 4 days ago

EDITORIAL: Vote NO to LL & MM’s school meal money pit

Updated 5 days ago

COLUMN: ‘Fees,’ ‘tariffs’ — taxes by another name | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 6 days ago

COLUMN: The absolute worst measures on this year’s ballot | Mike Rosen

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: Tax hike detoured — for now

Updated 6 days ago

PERSPECTIVE: Fostering Colorado’s future scientists

Updated 7 days ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado welcomes the world’s cops

Updated 1 week ago

COLUMN: Impact of a new Walmart beef facility | Rachel Gabel

Updated 1 week ago

COLUMN: Cycles of genocide disrupted | Pius Kamau

Updated 1 week ago

Colorado’s changing role as policy lab | CALDARA

Updated 1 week ago

For decades, Colorado has served as the nation’s favorite guinea pig — a testing ground for policies so bold, so idealistic and so occasionally boneheaded...

Hickenlooper, Bennet give Polis a pass on Medicaid cuts | Dick Wadhams

Updated 1 week ago

A day cannot go by without Colorado’s self-entitled U.S. senators loudly condemning President Donald Trump’s reforms of the Medicaid program that go into effect in...

Is DPS’ board on the verge of needed change? | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 1 week ago

In 2021, then-Denver school board member Auon’tai Anderson was censured after a district investigation found he’d aggressively pursued inappropriate relationships with underaged students and intimidated...

EDITORIAL: Swift justice displeases a Colorado federal judge

Updated 1 week ago

The Trump administration ordered payroll cuts to the bloated federal bureaucracy, and Colorado sued. The administration tried to rein in a runaway budget by paring...

GUEST OPINION: Yes on 2G; elect all Denver officials by majority

Updated 2 weeks ago

COLUMN: Jimmy Kimmel can’t hide behind the First Amendment | Mike Rosen

Updated 2 weeks ago

Aurora stands up to Polis’ power grab | Michael A. Hancock

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Hurdles to AI will cost Colorado

Updated 2 weeks ago

Jeffco teachers’ union failed to vet its ‘Cleanup Crew’ | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Trampling Colorado’s locals on energy, housing

Updated 2 weeks ago

ENDORSEMENTS: YES to 2G, YES to 310 on Denver’s ballot

Updated 2 weeks ago

LETTERS: Meals can make a difference; deceitful conservatives

Updated 2 weeks ago

Protection set for La Jara Ranch | Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: When our highways are paved with pot

Updated 2 weeks ago

GUEST COLUMN: Serving Colorado’s kids, one charter at a time

Updated 2 weeks ago

Kim Daly One recent Tuesday night, after carpool pickups, dinner preparations, and walking the dogs, I finally settled into bed with my earpods and phone....

ENDORSEMENTS: Blanke, Del Hierro, Jackson, Magaňa for Denver school board

Updated 2 weeks ago

Denver Public Schools, once a national pacesetter for education reform and innovation, has been struggling for years in more ways than one. Colorado’s largest school...

Perspective: End I-70’s winter wipeouts

Updated 2 weeks ago

By Greg Fulton and Grier Bailey It’s October, and while fall has just begun, we have already seen the first snow in the mountains. Typically,...

Gov. Polis chooses electric vehicles over the handicapped | CALDARA

Updated 2 weeks ago

Colorado’s governor just made this statement “The market has made it clear, EVs (electric vehicles) are here to stay.” I agree with him. Electric cars,...