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EDITORIAL: Will new DPS board demand accountability?

Updated 13 hours ago

Two big developments came out of Denver Public Schools this week. The board censured one of its members John Youngquist, an esteemed former East High...

EDITORIAL: Incompetency — a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card?

Updated 2 days ago

The Gazette reported last week that Gov. Jared Polis and some lawmakers are proposing to spend up to $12 million to confine and treat more...

EDITORIAL: A welcome crackdown on Denver’s expired tags

Updated 4 days ago

On Saturday, the Denver Police Department will begin a month-long enforcement operation that is crucial to combatting crime — even if it also can be...

EDITORIAL: Springs council cops out on car camping

Updated 4 days ago

Springs residents only could be disappointed with their City Council’s decision Monday to postpone a measure reining in car camping. A crackdown was warranted. At...

EDITORIAL: When school districts fail — a case in point

Updated 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: An easy out for Colorado’s play-it-safe senators

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: A Colorado campus relents on free speech

Updated 7 days ago

EDITORIAL: Is Colorado’s middle class moving out?

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Reopen government — put Coloradans back in the air

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: AG plays politics with Space Command

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A new DPS board — a new direction?

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Governor’s land grab repudiated

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s government — employer of last resort?

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Debt clouds Colorado’s horizon

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A recap of The Denver Gazette’s ballot recommendations

Updated 2 weeks ago

Mail ballots are due Tuesday at 7 p.m. For voters who have yet to cast their votes, The Denver Gazette editorial board offers its recommendations...

EDITORIAL: One Denver City Council is enough

Updated 3 weeks ago

An old quip holds that no one’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. The same arguably applies to Denver’s...

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s wolf plan flouts federal law

Updated 3 weeks ago

When Coloradans narrowly voted to reintroduce wolves in 2020, they were told it would restore Colorado’s natural balance and bring back an endangered species that...

EDITORIAL: Will Bennet, Hick help reopen our government?

Updated 3 weeks ago

Now that the nation’s largest labor union for federal employees — a bastion of Democratic Party support — is calling on U.S. Senate Democrats to...

EDITORIAL: Colorado crime soars when criminals go free

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s teachers turn away from unions

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Cops need ‘Flock’ for Denver’s crime fight

Updated 3 weeks ago

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A new source of doctors for rural Colorado

Updated 4 weeks ago

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

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Tax hike detoured — for now

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado welcomes the world’s cops

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Swift justice displeases a Colorado federal judge

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Hurdles to AI will cost Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Trampling Colorado’s locals on energy, housing

Updated 1 month ago

What’s the common thread between Gov. Jared Polis’ roadmap to green energy and his agenda for affordable housing? That is, aside from the fact each...

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

Updated 1 month ago

First, an easy YES to Referred Question 2G on Denver’s municipal ballot. The case for 2G is in fact self-evident. At-large Denver City Council members...

EDITORIAL: When our highways are paved with pot

Updated 1 month ago

Society once vilified marijuana. Later generations of hipsters laughed off the stigma. Now, mounting evidence has brought things full circle — vindicating the psychoactive drug’s...

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

Updated 1 month 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...