Editorials from The Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Editorials

EDITORIAL: Hallucinogens as ‘therapy’ and now, ‘sacrament’

Updated 10 hours ago

If some want to claim that mind-bending, hazardous and potentially deadly hallucinogens offer a path to “spiritual development” — that’s actually a tenet of a...

EDITORIAL: The high cost of a ‘progressive’ tax hike

Updated 1 day ago

No sooner had we urged support the other day for Initiative 232 — which safeguards and caps Colorado’s simple, flat income tax — than a...

EDITORIAL: An upside-down legislature tries to disarm Colorado’s law abiding

Updated 2 days ago

Politically diverse Coloradans hold wide-ranging views on the right to arms. Many are grateful that right is guaranteed in both state and U.S. constitutions; others...

EDITORIAL: There’s no substitute for charity

Updated 3 days ago

At a time in Colorado when government seeks to tax more, purportedly for the common good, a report last week by the Common Sense Institute...

EDITORIAL: Pushing back at a $2 billion+ tax hike

Updated 4 days ago

EDITORIAL: When school spending grows the front office

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: Give guv credit — but not too much — for his vetoes

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: What’s the cost of no power to Coloradans?

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Aurora’s Andrews makes mockery of public safety, must resign

Updated 1 week ago

ENDORSEMENT: Vote Michael Allen — for a real attorney general

Updated 1 week ago

ENDORSEMENT: Kirkmeyer’s credibility can carry the day in governor’s race

Updated 2 weeks ago

ENDORSEMENT: Gabe Evans has won constituents’ confidence in CD-8

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A boon to Colorado schoolkids

Updated 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Credit Vice President JD Vance for threading a messaging needle on Thursday at the Air Force Academy graduation that too many 2026 commencement speakers have...

EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back

Updated 3 weeks ago

It’s how the Austrians must have felt after breaking the Turkish siege of Vienna. OK, maybe just the way you feel after shooing off a...

EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A day of remembrance before recreation

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s growing list of turnoffs

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: The oblivious drumbeat against data centers

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s legislative robber barons

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Aurora’s template for success on homelessness

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Upholding the rule of law against illegal immigration

Updated 1 month ago

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

Updated 1 month ago

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

Updated 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

Colorado Boulevard is almost synonymous with traffic jams. If advocates succeed in putting the road on a diet, the major traffic artery will become curb-to-curb...

EDITORIAL: A flawed AI bill Polis might have to sign

Updated 1 month ago

Well, here’s another fine mess ruling Democrats at the legislature have gotten us into — this time, thanks to their bungled attempts at regulating artificial...