Editorials from The Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Editorials

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s mushrooming Medicaid begs for abuse

Updated 1 day ago

“Build it, and they will come,” the popular expression goes. We’d add, fund it — and the hustlers will come, too. Hence, the findings of...

EDITORIAL: Will feds spare Colorado from its own electrification agenda?

Updated 2 days ago

The war on affordable energy in Colorado has taken many forms — from attempts to strangle our vital oil and gas industry to edicts that...

EDITORIAL: A way around Colorado’s highway funding roadblock?

Updated 3 days ago

For a while, it looked as if Colorado finally had found a way to fund its long-neglected, crumbling highways: sidestep the legislature with a ballot...

EDITORIAL: Kirkmeyer can lead a Republican renewal

Updated 4 days ago

Colorado Republicans, sidelined for years, have an unusual opportunity this November to turn the tables on the Democrats running state government. The potential for change...

EDITORIAL: Will Denver’s schools chief move on? Let’s hope

Updated 5 days ago

A recap of The Gazette’s ballot recommendations

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: Juneteenth recalls emancipation, exalts freedom

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: There’s no substitute for charity

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: When school spending grows the front office

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

It long has been fashionable among the zero-emissions set to “calculate” the wide-ranging costs to society of carbon-emitting fuels. The perils posed by that carbon...

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

Aurora City Councilman Rob Andrews was right when he posted to social media, “accountability has to be more than words” in the wake of his...

ENDORSEMENT: Vote Michael Allen — for a real attorney general

Updated 3 weeks ago

For decades, the attorney general’s office was seen as a nonpartisan steward of public safety and trust. No more. In recent years, the office has...

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

Even before last week’s debate featuring the Republican contenders for Colorado governor, it was clear Barb Kirkmeyer is the only GOP candidate who has the...

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

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

Updated 3 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A boon to Colorado schoolkids

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?

Updated 4 weeks ago

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

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back

Updated 4 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more

Updated 1 month ago

EDITORIAL: A day of remembrance before recreation

Updated 1 month ago

Memorial Day is the traditional beginning to a season of camping, fishing, hiking, climbing, rafting — all the stuff that makes Colorado a summer destination...

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s growing list of turnoffs

Updated 1 month ago

Colorado is now the nation’s fourth-most-expensive state to live in and third-least-attractive in which to open new businesses. Let those stats soak in. That’s No....

EDITORIAL: The oblivious drumbeat against data centers

Updated 1 month ago

Denver’s City Council declared a moratorium this week on the city’s proliferating data centers amid mounting public fears — largely unfounded but stoked by activist...