Editorials from The Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Editorials

ENDORSEMENT: Jeff Hurd proves a perfect fit for CD-3

Updated 18 hours ago

When the Gazette’s editorial board endorsed Jeff Hurd in 2024 to represent Colorado’s vast and diverse 3rd Congressional District, it was clear he was meant...

EDITORIAL: A unifier takes the helm of Colorado’s GOP

Updated 2 days ago

The trajectory of either major political party in Colorado should matter to all voters, regardless of party affiliation. All have to live under whichever party...

EDITORIAL: A boon to Colorado schoolkids

Updated 3 days ago

The groundbreaking new federal education tax credit that stands to change Colorado children’s lives — and that the legislature unsuccessfully tried to sabotage — could...

EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?

Updated 4 days ago

For decades, Colorado has been an incubator of high-tech and aerospace ingenuity. Unfortunately, the state’s revised reputation for smothering innovation is spreading. The Colorado Chamber...

EDITORIAL: Vance to AFA grads: Value AI, hallow humanness

Updated 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: A day of remembrance before recreation

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s growing list of turnoffs

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: The oblivious drumbeat against data centers

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s legislative robber barons

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Aurora’s template for success on homelessness

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Upholding the rule of law against illegal immigration

Updated 2 weeks ago

We’ll say it again: Colorado U.S. District Court Judge Dan Domenico gets it. He isn’t about to be snookered or cowed by the nationwide lawfare...

EDITORIAL: If Colorado’s not a sanctuary, veto SB 5

Updated 3 weeks ago

The legislative session is a wrap. Among the surge of bills is another reckless effort to enshrine Colorado’s status as a sanctuary state for illegal...

ENDORSEMENT: Kirkmeyer for governor — and for the future of Colorado’s GOP

Updated 3 weeks ago

The Republican nominee for Colorado governor will face either of two well-funded and high-profile Democratic contenders seeking the post in November. It’s a tall task....

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s hunters, anglers push back

Updated 3 weeks ago

It’s not news to the many who hunt and fish Colorado’s wilds that our state has been at a crossroads on conservation issues. More “progressive”...

EDITORIAL: Next front in the war on cars? Colorado Blvd.

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A flawed AI bill Polis might have to sign

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Attempt to gut TABOR will go to voters

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A new take on highway robbery

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Politicians pump up their pay on the public's tab

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: May Aurora’s new council avoid Denver’s drama

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A double standard on public safety

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Bad press — and a bad brand — for Colorado

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Big Labor’s power grab is a slam-dunk veto

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Another ballot attack on oil and gas

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Politicians prioritized teens over THC — for a change

Updated 1 month ago

Clear thinking has prevailed at the Gold Dome with the demise of proposed legislation that would have enabled the sale of high-potency THC beverages wherever...

EDITORIAL: Teachers, schools do better without a union contract

Updated 1 month ago

Last week, the teachers union in the Douglas County School District — Colorado’s third-largest — asked the district’s board to restore collective bargaining. A previous...

EDITORIAL: Breaking ranks for the better at Colorado’s Capitol

Updated 1 month ago

It was encouraging to see a key lawmaker among ruling Democrats at the Capitol buck his own party’s standard-bearer last week. The kudos goes to...

EDITORIAL: Lawmakers would unleash a suing spree

Updated 1 month ago

Leave it to one of the state Senate’s co-apologists in chief for the criminal element, Democratic Sen. Mike Weissman of Aurora, to defend the honor...