Editorials from The Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Editorials

EDITORIAL: Legislative Dems must sidestep the sideshows

Updated 18 hours ago

Coloradans who had hoped the 2026 legislature would stick to bread-and-butter issues — for a change — will be sorely disappointed. Only weeks into the...

EDITORIAL: Declining enrollment, foundering performance at DPS

Updated 2 days ago

Fresh data reveals a steeper decline in Colorado’s public-school enrollment, with over 10,000 fewer students this school year. It’s part of a trend that began...

EDITORIAL: A stock show for the record books — and a showcase for rural Colorado

Updated 3 days ago

The historic National Western Stock Show is the one place the ranchers and farmers who feed the rest of Colorado get to strut their stuff...

EDITORIAL: Ag remains a cornerstone, linchpin of Colorado’s economy

Updated 4 days ago

How important is agriculture to Colorado’s overall well-being? It accounts for about $47 billion a year of our state’s economy, directly or indirectly employing at...

EDITORIAL: Let’s face it, wolf reintroduction is a failure

Updated 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: A troubling tax hike is back on track

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: ‘Flock’ cams crucial to Colorado’s crime fight

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Left in the dark, Golden pushes back

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Say it, Governor: Colorado is a sanctuary state

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Drinking, driving don’t mix; not for politicians, either

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Dispelling illusions about homelessness

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Polis is right to keep the ‘labor peace’

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Oblivious to a crisis of their own making

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Celebrate Denver’s record-setting stock show

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Don’t confuse protest with obstruction of justice

Updated 2 weeks ago

Activists opposed to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration are, predictably, exploiting the shooting death of a former Coloradan by a federal agent during...

EDITORIAL: The toll of Colorado’s ‘santuario’ status

Updated 3 weeks ago

Our state’s apologists for open borders sanctimoniously dubbed illegal immigrants “newcomers.” Because, y’know, accusing them of entering the country illegally is so judgmental. And not...

EDITORIAL: A needed reprieve for Colorado coal

Updated 3 weeks ago

The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order on Dec. 30 keeping Unit 1 of the Craig Station coal-fired plant running at least through...

EDITORIAL: Holding Colorado lawmakers accountable — live on TV

Updated 3 weeks ago

It’s hard to fathom how Colorado ended up the only state in the nation not to livestream its state legislative committee hearings. That said, a...

EDITORIAL: Don’t backtrack on Aurora’s big strides

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s wolf experiment has run its course

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A needed crackdown on Colorado’s child trafficking

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s transportation dreamers deny reality

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s criminal suspects game ‘incompetency’

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Need a job? Ask our state government

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Denver grows its homelessness-industrial complex

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Restore Colorado water project ASAP

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Polis plays games with utility rates

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Let Colorado law officers hand criminals to ICE

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: A welcome assist for school choice in Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

Jared Polis ranks high among our state’s “education governors,” a list that over the years has included Democrat Roy Romer and Republican Bill Owens. Polis...

PERSPECTIVE: A foot in the door of affordable housing

Updated 1 month ago

By Tyrone Adams Housing affordability cannot be addressed overnight. It will take dedicated conversations at local and state levels, targeted regulatory reforms, and close collaboration...

PERSPECTIVE: The Democratic Party’s outdated playbook

Updated 1 month ago

“Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” That’s the famous quote from George Santayana in his 1905 book, The Life of...

EDITORIAL: Another reprieve for Colorado taxpayers

Updated 1 month ago

The fast-moving effort to place a $4.1 billion-a-year income-tax hike on next year’s statewide ballot has been stopped in its tracks by the same state...