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Enrollment nosedive makes case for school choice | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 21 hours ago

Since the pandemic, my columns have chronicled a steady downward trend in K-12 enrollment. Now, fresh data from the Colorado Department of Education confirms it’s...

The fight against online child exploitation

Updated 21 hours ago

I remember staying up into the early hours of the morning, waiting anxiously for my husband to come back from undercover work in Southeast Asia....

A credibility crisis for Aurora’s public safety chair

Updated 2 days ago

Aurora didn’t just elect Rob Andrews to City Council. The new majority elevated him into one of the city’s consequential roles: chair of the Public...

Aurora must catch up on sales-tax revenue

Updated 3 days ago

Aurora’s long-term fiscal health depends on a basic reality: population growth alone does not pay for city services. Retail and dining activity does. Cities fund...

Political hubris drives tone-deaf pols | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 4 days ago

New initiative threatens to dissolve CPW

Updated 5 days ago

PERSPECTIVE: They’re trying — again — to take away our TABOR

Updated 6 days ago

GUEST OPINION: Court saw through attack on stoves, science

Updated 6 days ago

A partisan potshot at the CU regents | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 1 week ago

A theater of the absurd at Aurora City Hall

Updated 1 week ago

GUEST COLUMN: When Colorado schools dump unions, they excel

Updated 1 week ago

It’s time to restore the military-industrial complex | Mike Rosen

Updated 1 week ago

Address the roots of Colorado’s affordability woes

Updated 1 week ago

A ‘defensible ’clemency for Tina Peters? | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 weeks ago

Unsolicited advice to both Republicans and Democrats | Sondermann

Updated 2 weeks ago

This even-numbered year will be one of political turnover in Colorado with the governor’s chair opening up along with the other state executive offices (attorney...

Trump joins the assault on rural Colorado

Updated 2 weeks ago

Ruling Colorado Democrats have assaulted rural Colorado for the past seven years under Gov. Jared Polis and the Democratic Socialists who drive their massive legislative...

Ag industry needs real-world solutions

Updated 2 weeks ago

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 sets federal standards for employees including minimum wage, child labor, and overtime. Agricultural workers have been largely exempt...

Perspective: Some priorities for our lawmakers

Updated 2 weeks ago

When legislators return to work at the Capitol this week, the question — as always — will be: Will they finally focus on issues that...

Boebert takes on Trump over Colorado water | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 weeks ago

Take time today to thank a first responder

Updated 2 weeks ago

Aurora’s new progressives rewrite reality | Michael A. Hancock

Updated 2 weeks ago

The lie that persists five years later | SONDERMANN

Updated 3 weeks ago

A year later, still no accountability in Jeffco schools | Sengenberger

Updated 3 weeks ago

Are we all post-liberals now? | Luige del Puerto

Updated 3 weeks ago

Campbell was a unique political character

Updated 3 weeks ago

Polis is a mixed bag on public ed | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 3 weeks ago

GUEST COLUMN: State Supreme Court hinders cities’ crime fight

Updated 3 weeks ago

PERSPECTIVE: Higher ed’s orthodoxy

Updated 3 weeks ago

GUEST OPINION: Vaccines work and Colorado needs them for disease prevention

Updated 3 weeks ago

Vaccines are one of the most powerful public health tools we have. They protect individuals, families, and entire communities from diseases that once caused widespread...

“60 Minutes”: A study in journalistic bias

Updated 3 weeks ago

A tautology is a needless repetition of an idea using different wording. For example: “Sooner or later the inevitable is bound to happen.” In this...

A bit of positive thinking for the holidays

Updated 4 weeks ago

These days, some out-and-out positivity is perhaps out of character for me. I tend to view our politics and the world more broadly with considerable...