It’s what comes afterward that should worry rank-and-file Aurora taxpayers — who might have to pick up the tab at some point for their city’s …
Don’t throw paper at a deadly dilemma that requires genuine services and results. Stop promising and producing health care coverage when the n…
There is in fact little if any evidence to suggest that providing a paycheck for Colorado’s many uncompensated elected posts — most notably, o…
They can look forward to more cars and trash cans lining the curbs of their once-quiet residential streets. More overall noise and congestion,…
Denver’s Landmark Ordinance was adopted by the City Council in 1967, as the city’s website reminds us, “…to help preserve, enhance and encoura…
President Donald Trump summarized his controversial doctrine as “America First” and “Make America Great Again.” No matter what the future hold…
The subtext to all this is a nagging hunch that the current regime is going soft on crime — and that it will cost us all. Democrats ushering i…
No moral American wants to suppress anyone on a basis of race. As such, society must wonder what motivates Major League Baseball. The organiza…
Jon Caldara and his Denver-based Independence Institute … have filed a ballot initiative that aims to resurrect an old law dedicating a percen…
Coffman argues in a motion for an injunction that he “is prohibited from doing anything effective for other political campaigns.” … He is as g…
Critics say socialized medicine could lead to "rationing." The less filtered doomsayers, think former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, fear "death pan…
Once the genie was out of the bottle, those like Corry who had let it loose had little hope of reining it in. It wound up answering to far mor…
Both dust-ups essentially involve a showdown between a chief exec who has bent over backward to embrace the latest dictates and dogmas of acad…
President Joe Biden is right. The United States has an infrastructure crisis and fixing it is “long past due.” President Donald Trump might be…
Diversity matters. Don’t let Boulder’s faculty activists make a joke of it.
Rendering these and other kinds of livestock inedible is the whole point of this deceptive proposal. Rather than be up front and call for a ba…
No one should care what military pilots look like or who they love. Just give thanks for their service. Sadly, our military may be losing grou…
Perhaps the best hope lies much closer to home — literally — through intervention by those nearest to someone who is in mental or emotional di…
A separate county health board would be a lot more deferential to the state public health bureaucracy — and could be relied on to impose the s…
Restaurants and other businesses are scrambling to survive. We’re recovering from a record-breaking forest fire season and looking at more of …
It is not too early to remind ourselves that mental illness — too often at root of such mass violence — needs earlier intervention by loved on…
It is not too early to remind ourselves that mental illness — too often at root of such mass violence — needs earlier intervention by loved on…
It seems organized labor has gotten comfortable … What was at first an extraordinary if necessary measure — from face masks to remote learning…
As Colorado grapples with the fourth-worst unemployment crisis in the country — as workers wonder how they will support themselves and their c…
It’s hard to quibble with Kirkmeyer’s premise. Government employment — in which the taxpaying public is itself the employer — is fundamentally…
Hey, governor, leave our food alone! This is friendly rebellious advice, not dark sarcasm. The public has a pent-up need to party like it’s th…
By one recent tally, the governor has issued 260 orders and counting in the campaign against COVID-19. The odds are that at least a few of tho…
Claptrap, gobbledygook and a bunch of blah blah blah. Accept it. You have no power here, and we are in charge.
So soon after the election; following the Jan. 6 upheaval in our nation’s capital; on the heels of the ouster of a president and an epic trans…
All very encouraging, of course. The question remains how much of the hardship was necessary in the first place. It is worth asking because, y…
What began as Gov. Jared Polis’ much-criticized attempt to recognize the state’s vegetarians and vegans with a “MeatOut Day” this Saturday — h…
They won’t get collective-bargaining rights — the be all, end all of union membership — anytime soon. That’s in stark contrast with their coun…
The real relevance of Custer County’s independent streak for the rest of Colorado — and the message for our state government — goes well beyon…
And their weatherbeaten condition is but one part of the problem. The fact is, our state outgrew its overburdened highway grid long ago. They’…
A few nights in jail. That prospect prevents countless Americans from driving drunk, shoplifting, trespassing, using illicit drugs, vandalizin…
And there you have it: soaring crime amid dipping police morale and ebbing police ranks. Very plausibly, it was inevitable. Call it all a coin…
“Defund the police.” “Fry ’em like bacon.” These stupid ideas are tanking in Hipsterville like the governor’s approval polls in New York.
Even without the snide remarks of council members and the woker-than-thou elitism of the group-living amendment’s authors and their fan base, …
A generation after the last smoker was exiled outdoors — no more smoking in the break room; in the smoking section at a restaurant; even at yo…
A small army of parents began gathering signatures at storefronts and going door to door. They persisted in the face of hecklers and fierce re…
Prepare to party like it’s 1999 on March 20. That is the date Gov. Jared Polis wants Colorado to celebrate “Meat Out Day.” Indulge in emulsifi…
Kessler is the avowed vegan and critic of the cattle industry whose appointment to the board last year by Gov. Jared Polis infuriated ranchers…
As reported by The Gazette last week, Colorado Restaurant Association officials said they were "shocked" to learn Gov. Jared Polis’ updated CO…
The case for standardized testing was always straightforward, even before COVID shuttered the nation’s schools. Testing fosters data-driven ed…
Many if not most Coloradans probably have been affected in some way by the industry’s paralysis even if they don’t realize it. In good years, …
He is a victim; she is a victim. All those people over there are victims, too.
“Health care is a right, not a privilege.”
Gray has come to the table with a transportation “solution” that amounts to you pay for it, we’ll spend it. … Gray, Winter and the Democrats c…
Colorado’s children matter or they do not. If they matter, the decision to confirm or reject President Joe Biden’s nominee for Interior secret…
In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, it’s also clear why the union might take advantage of the pandemic to exact further conce…