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Bennet wants to be Colorado's next governor | Cronin and Loevy

Updated 19 hours ago

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is considered the front-runner in the Colorado Democratic Party primary contest for governor. His major opponent is current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. The Democratic primary election is...

Perspective: ‘Structural deficit’ = spending too much

Updated 21 hours ago

Colorado voters will once again face a November ballot measure aimed at weakening the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, in our state constitution. This...

Is Jared Polis turning into Dick Lamm? | Jon Caldara

Updated 21 hours ago

By Jon Caldara Dick Lamm was Colorado’s longest-serving governor, at 12 years in office (a close second goes to Roy Romer). And during those three...

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

Updated 21 hours 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...

A tale of two debates | Vince Bzdek

Updated 2 days ago

Aurora council’s Rob Andrews must resign | Jimmy Sengenberger

Updated 3 days ago

Moderates are not our salvation | Mike Rosen

Updated 3 days ago

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

Updated 3 days ago

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

Updated 4 days ago

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

Updated 5 days ago

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

Updated 6 days ago

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

Updated 6 days ago

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

Updated 6 days ago

EDITORIAL: A boon to Colorado schoolkids

Updated 6 days ago

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

Updated 7 days ago

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has learned a lot after 20 years in the Senate. He is an accomplished dancer — at the old Washington, D.C., two-step of saying one thing but...

EDITORIAL: Is Colorado creating an anti-innovation economy?

Updated 7 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...

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

Updated 7 days ago

The Republican Party I grew up knowing was the party of small business, big business, and job creation. It was the party that signed paychecks...

Perspective: Behind the AI curtain at Anthropic

Updated 1 week ago

Earlier this month, I was invited to look behind the curtain. Not at Oz, but at Anthropic, one of the companies building some of the most powerful...

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

Updated 1 week ago

Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara

Updated 1 week ago

Perspective: Colorado's declining competitiveness

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

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

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Guv’s land grab is beaten back

Updated 1 week ago

EDITORIAL: Will Dems run highway funding off the road?

Updated 2 weeks ago

The civil rights solution America forgot | Michael Hancock

Updated 2 weeks ago

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

Michael Fields, executive director of Advance Colorado, joins OpEdge host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger to assess the good, the bad and the ugly of...

EDITORIAL: Who else goes free with Tina Peters?

Updated 2 weeks ago

There was outrage on both sides of the political aisle over Gov. Jared Polis’ commutation last week of the nine-year prison sentence of former Mesa...

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

It seemed an itch that Gov. Jared Polis just had to scratch. After months of hints and speculation, Polis put his signature on a commutation of the...

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

Updated 2 weeks ago

On April 28, I wrote this of Chief Judge Daniel Domenico of the U.S. District Court for Colorado: “As President Trump considers filling a Colorado-based vacancy...