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EDITORIAL: One Denver City Council is enough

Updated 1 day 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 2 days 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 days 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 4 days ago

It was encouraging to see a news report in The Gazette this week about a recent rise in car chases by police in Colorado’s third-largest...

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s teachers turn away from unions

Updated 5 days ago

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

Updated 6 days ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: A new source of doctors for rural Colorado

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Tax hike detoured — for now

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado welcomes the world’s cops

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Swift justice displeases a Colorado federal judge

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Hurdles to AI will cost Colorado

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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 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...

EDITORIAL: Denver auditor reins in City Hall’s health care costs

Updated 3 weeks ago

It’s encouraging to see Denver City and County Auditor Timothy O’Brien and his office continue to put pressure on city government to tighten its belt...

EDITORIAL: Colorado won’t miss federal energy bloat

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Zoom in on Colorado’s criminal element

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Let Aurora’s ‘tough love’ lead the way

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Answering the call of Colorado’s mental health crisis

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Denver City Hall buys real estate like it’s Monopoly

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Propositions LL & MM — good money after bad

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Locals need a say in community development

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: An ag dividend for all of Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Making way for more Colorado inmates

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado plays ‘catch me if you can’

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s next budget crunch

Updated 1 month ago

Like slacker students who flunked a course and had to make it up in summer school, Colorado state lawmakers who were summoned back to the...

EDITORIAL: Don’t herd Coloradans into density zoning

Updated 1 month ago

Colorado’s governor and legislature are leading us all down a primrose path to density zoning. It’s a wonky term for cramming more housing into less...

EDITORIAL: Crow misses the mark again on U.S. airstrikes

Updated 1 month ago

Last June, Colorado’s 6th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jason Crow sharply denounced the Trump administration for carrying out surprise airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons development...

EDITORIAL: ‘Crowded’ prisons = safer Colorado

Updated 1 month ago

Let’s welcome news reported by The Gazette this week that Colorado’s prison population is on the rise, with more lawbreakers reportedly behind bars for parole...