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

Updated 15 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...

Rachel Gabel diagnoses Colorado's sharp rural-urban divide | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 2 days ago

Gazette columnist Rachel Gabel, editor of The Fence Post Magazine, says Gov. Jared Polis has ushered in an unprecedented era of tone-deafness to rural Colorado....

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...

Would you hire Jena Griswold to handle your case?| Eric Sondermann

Updated 3 days ago

Aurora’s new council invites abuse, litigation | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 3 days ago

Michael Bennet is the $2.5 million corporate man | Dick Wadhams

Updated 4 days ago

EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?

Updated 4 days ago

Colorado GOP has lost its sense of what's best for the people | Rachel Gabel

Updated 4 days ago

Perspective: Colorado's declining competitiveness

Updated 5 days ago

Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara

Updated 5 days ago

Hantavirus, Ebola and other pandemics yet to come | Pius Kamau

Updated 5 days ago

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

Updated 5 days ago

Perspective: Behind the AI curtain at Anthropic

Updated 5 days ago

Founding documents reconnect us to our shared American roots - and rebelliousness | Vince Bzdek

Updated 6 days ago

When you first lay eyes on the actual founding documents of our country that, for the first time in history, have traveled together from their...

Attorney General Phil Weiser's underdog campaign for Colorado governor | Cronin and Loevy

Updated 6 days ago

Phil Weiser, 58, Colorado's attorney general, is in a heated race against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, 61, for the Democratic nomination for governor. They are...

Questions, still unanswered, swirl around Victor Marx | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 7 days ago

I’ve followed and covered Colorado politics closely for 22 years. It’s been a long time since I encountered a major statewide candidate I’d never heard of before announcing. I’d also never encountered any candidate for office...

EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back

Updated 1 week 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...

The civil rights solution America forgot | Michael Hancock

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?

Updated 1 week ago

Michael Fields reviews Colorado's 2026 legislative session | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?

Updated 1 week ago

Trump’s wise pick for the 10th Circuit | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s prisons crowded? Open more

Updated 1 week ago

A mistaken commutation and an over-the-top reaction | Eric Sondermann

Updated 1 week ago

Processing plants are an important piece of the ag puzzle | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: A day of remembrance before recreation

Updated 2 weeks ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s growing list of turnoffs

Updated 2 weeks ago

Perspective: Front Range railroaded

Updated 2 weeks ago

The proposed Colorado Front Range Rail will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits. According to the service plan negotiated with BNSF,...

Too much Tina | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

Really? This much hullabaloo over Tina Peters? We enjoy being distracted by the silliest things, don’t we? Our governor’s commutation of Peters’ sentence is just...

Too much ado about Tina Peters | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

Really? This much hullabaloo over Tina Peters? We enjoy being distracted by the silliest things, don’t we? Our governor’s commutation of Peters’ sentence is just...