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EDITORIAL: Governor’s land grab repudiated

Updated 16 hours ago

Gov. Jared Polis has pushed a passel of laws through the legislature over the past couple of years that mandate sweeping revisions to local land-use...

Why you should care about child care

Updated 1 day ago

Child care can be a challenge for all working parents. Parents with older children who are beyond the stage of needing child care may recall...

Careers suitable for Generation Z

Updated 1 day ago

Although people that fall within the age boundaries of a generation may have many characteristics and beliefs in common, a sweeping generalization that stereotypes all...

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s government — employer of last resort?

Updated 1 day ago

Colorado’s Common Sense Institute released an eye-opening report on job creation last spring, and it was doubly alarming. It shed light not only on the...

Unions on full spin in school board races | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 days ago

EDITORIAL: Debt clouds Colorado’s horizon

Updated 2 days ago

Super PAC propels Bennet without his fingerprints | WADHAMS

Updated 3 days ago

While senators stall, Colorado farmers continue to sweat federal shutdowns | GABEL

Updated 3 days ago

PERSPECTIVE: The pendulum has swung too far

Updated 3 days ago

EDITORIAL: A recap of The Denver Gazette’s ballot recommendations

Updated 3 days ago

There’s nothing ‘woke’ about Hispanic Heritage Month | Joe Barrera

Updated 4 days ago

Democrats don’t look for answers in Colorado | CALDARA

Updated 4 days ago

COLUMN: The science of drinking is evolving | Pius Kamau

Updated 5 days ago

DPS pillories a board member to elude scrutiny | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 5 days ago

EDITORIAL: One Denver City Council is enough

Updated 5 days 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...

Aurora’s water policy could redefine the West | Michael A. Hancock

Updated 6 days ago

Turn the tap in Aurora and water flows. Most residents never think about what it takes to make that happen. But behind that simple act,...

GUEST OPINION: Time to sunset some zombies

Updated 6 days ago

Every Halloween we see people dressed as zombies, imitating the catatonic and clumsy evildoers in nearly 600 bad movies. In Haitian folklore, a zombie is...

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s wolf plan flouts federal law

Updated 6 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 1 week ago

Let’s not scrap Colorado’s congressional map | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado crime soars when criminals go free

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s teachers turn away from unions

Updated 1 week ago

Importing beef is not the solution | GABEL

Updated 1 week ago

PERSPECTIVE: Spending more on fewer students

Updated 1 week ago

How to build faith in Colorado’s mail-in ballots | CALDARA

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

Judge halts Lakewood’s shell game | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A new source of doctors for rural Colorado

Updated 2 weeks ago

Though Colorado, like most other states, has seen its health care industry become the largest employment sector (eclipsing retail), one might not get that sense...

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

Just in case it isn’t clear: A “no” vote on Propositions LL & MM on this fall’s statewide ballot means all Colorado schoolchildren from needy...

COLUMN: ‘Fees,’ ‘tariffs’ — taxes by another name | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 2 weeks ago

Last week, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked why President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “not taxes on imported goods,” he said something so...