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Unions on full spin in school board races | Jimmy Sengenberger
Jiimmy Sengenberger
jiimmy-sengenberger@gazette.com
Updated 1 day ago
Today is Election Day. In Colorado, it’s all about local elections — the ones that matter most because they hit closest to home. Nowhere more than in education, where school boards hire the superintendent and set the district’s direction. Honesty...
Jiimmy Sengenberger
Reporter
Super PAC propels Bennet without his fingerprints | WADHAMS
Dick Wadhams
dick-wadhams@denvergazette.com
Updated 4 days ago
To listen to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, he is the Ivory soap of Colorado politics — 99.44% pure, when it comes to corporate campaign contributions. Actually, Bennet would insist he is 100% pure. Bennet claims he does not seek or...
Dick Wadhams
Reporter
While senators stall, Colorado farmers continue to sweat federal shutdowns | GABEL
Rachel Gabel
rachel-gabel@denvergazette.com
Updated 4 days ago
As the piles grow at the sugar beet processing plants around the region, growers are facing looming deadlines complicated by federal shutdowns. Colorado Sen. Byron Pelton said a number of growers — as well as other commodity producers who face...
Rachel Gabel
Reporter
PERSPECTIVE: The pendulum has swung too far
Paul Pazen
paul-pazen@denvergazette.com
Updated 21 hours ago
There is middle ground between mercy and justice. That is what Colorado’s leaders should search for in its criminal justice system. For more than a decade, Colorado has devoted extraordinary energy to reshaping its criminal justice system trying to meet...
Paul Pazen
Reporter
There’s nothing ‘woke’ about Hispanic Heritage Month | Joe Barrera
Joe Barrera
joe-barrera@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 days ago
We have just finished observing Hispanic Heritage Month. I’m looking forward to next year’s. It was a good observance, as it always is. Everybody had a good time. We forgot about the price of eggs, stopped worrying about tariffs, the...
Joe Barrera
Reporter
Democrats don’t look for answers in Colorado | CALDARA
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@denvergazette.com
Updated 4 days ago
Outside of Colorado, Democrats are still panicked about President Donald Trump’s victory, trying to figure out how Americans can be so stupid as to reject their elitist-driven, woke socialism. But inside Colorado, Democrats see no need to worry. Unchecked power...
Jon Caldara
Reporter
COLUMN: The science of drinking is evolving | Pius Kamau
Pius Kamau
pius-kamau@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 days ago
Science, it seems, tarnishes national practices, pastimes, diets, and often seems unmindful of histories. The latest scientific target is alcohol: its ingestion causes cancer. For a large swath of humanity alcohol, or ethanol plays central roles in religious devotion and...
Pius Kamau
Reporter
DPS pillories a board member to elude scrutiny | Jimmy Sengenberger
Jiimmy Sengenberger
jiimmy-sengenberger@gazette.com
Updated 5 days ago
In May 2022, Denver school board members Scott Esserman and Auon’tai Anderson publicly humiliated a Manual High JROTC instructor at a meeting of parents and students. They falsely blamed him for a district decision to move the program and accused...
Jiimmy Sengenberger
Reporter
Aurora’s water policy could redefine the West | Michael A. Hancock
Michael Hancock
michael-hancock@gazette.com
Updated 7 days ago
Turn the tap in Aurora and water flows. Most residents never think about what it takes to make that happen. But behind that simple act, Aurora has been quietly rewriting one of the oldest — and most contentious — stories...
Michael Hancock
Reporter
GUEST OPINION: Time to sunset some zombies
Wil Armstrong
wil-armstrong@denvergazette.com
Updated 6 days ago
Every Halloween we see people dressed as zombies, imitating the catatonic and clumsy evildoers in nearly 600 bad movies. In Haitian folklore, a zombie is a dead body reanimated through Vodou magic, but in the movies they all have one...
Wil Armstrong
Reporter
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