Editorials

Here’s why Polis is right to reduce Tina Peters’ 9-year sentence (Editorial)

Peters is wrong. Trump is wrong. But we cannot look at the 9-year sentence and not consider the importance of the First Amendment and our deeply held commitment to free speech.

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters looks on during sentencing for her election interference case in Mesa County District Court on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Grand Junction, Colorado. (Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)

A security fence surrounds the northeast end of Denver International Airport as a United Airlines flight lands in Denver, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Are Denver’s runways safe? We need answers after Frontier Airlines plane hit a pedestrian (Editorial)

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Students at Wheat Ridge High School walk out of school as a protest action in response to the shooting at Evergreen High School, in Wheat Ridge, CO, Sept. 12, 2025. (Photo by Kevin Mohatt/Special to The Denver Post)

DOJ waits 37 years to challenge Denver’s gun control and still manages to pick one of the worst possible times (Editorial)

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Zoe Duplessis, 5, makes a heart sign over the "I Voted" sticker designed by her mother Artist Chlo Duplessis after the unveiling of the sticker at the Denver Elections Division on September 21, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Chlo Duplessis, a Denver-based artist who is legally blind. She worked with the Denver Elections Division to create the new "I Voted" sticker design to illustrate an ongoing commitment to providing voter-centric experiences for voters with vision or hearing disabilities within the City and County of Denver.
(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Denver’s heart and hard work could be a compass for the DNC in 2028 (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

May 5, 2026 at 5:02 p.m.

America has lost her way, and Denver could be the compass home in 2028.

State qualifiers wrestle during the first day of the 2026 Colorado High School State Wrestling Championships on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, at Ball Arena in Denver. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)

Colorado’s important first steps to crack down on high school coach recruiting (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

May 6, 2026 at 1:25 p.m.

The Colorado High School Activities Association Board of Directors and the Legislative Council showed an...

Kathleen Kelley stands at her ranch as smoke billows from the Lee fire in Rio Blanco County just outside of Meeker, Colorado, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. Kelley's home suffered some damage but did not burn down. The land around the home was scorched. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Meeker’s electricity costs could increase up to 5% after Elk and Lee fires, thanks to Trump’s attacks on ‘blue states’ (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

April 23, 2026 at 8:50 a.m.

Because President Donald Trump’s administration has denied rural Coloradans relief funds from floods and fires...

Members of the Cherry Creek Board of Education, left to right, Terry Bates, Mike Hamrick, Anne Egan, Angela Garland, and John-Claude Futrell, listen to a district hiring update during a study session inside the Educational Service Center on February 6, 2026 in Greenwood Village, Colorado. (Photo By Kathryn Scott/Special to The Denver Post)

Growing Cherry Creek Schools scandal is a signal to districts to scrutinize education consultants (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

April 16, 2026 at 9:20 a.m.

The Cherry Creek Board of Education has one mission right now – get to the...

Colorado gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet speaks with a crowd member after a forum hosted by the Colorado Young Democrats with Bennet and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 68 in Denver. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)

Bennet backing out of forum hosted by Muslim community is shortsighted given his message on Gaza (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

April 11, 2026 at 5:07 a.m.

Earnest transparency goes a long way with voters, even if they disagree with the answer,...

A graph from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows Colorado's statewide snowpack level (darkest line) compared to records that date back to 1986. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Colorado’s lowest snowpack on record is rapidly melting. We must prepare for drought. (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

March 26, 2026 at 9:03 a.m.

Snowpack this winter was among the thinnest on record, and then record-breaking early spring heat...

Bob Kratz, a 94-year-old resident of Windsor Gardens who has seen his property tax payments double, at his apartment in Denver on March 6, 2026. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Colorado’s local elected officials have the power to provide badly needed property tax relief (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

March 24, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

Coloradans badly need property tax relief. And it must come from our local elected officials...

RTD must account for years of lapsed services to Wheat Ridge and Westminster (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

March 12, 2026 at 12:55 p.m.

The burning questions before the Regional Transportation District Board of Directors is whether riders in...

Legislators work in the Senate chamber at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver on Friday, May 3, 2024. The Colorado legislature began its upcoming weekend work on Friday as the 2024 session nears its end on May 8. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Government transparency won the week at the Colorado legislature (Opinion)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

March 10, 2026 at 1:31 p.m.

Colorado lawmakers did the right thing for government transparency last week. First in a vote...

The Wavelength cocktail in Denver on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at Death & Co. one of the locations where employees of Caring for Denver spent taxpayer dollars on cocktails that cost $20 or more a piece multiple times a year. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Drinking out on the taxpayer’s dime? Voters should shut down Caring for Denver (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

March 3, 2026 at 9:33 a.m.

Eating out four times a week on taxpayer money, or as the case may be,...

House Speaker Julie McCluskie prepares to speak at the front of the House chamber to start the 2026 legislative session at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on Jan. 14, 2026. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Exploitable loophole could take the ‘public’ out of required legal notices (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

February 28, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

"Unless House Bill 1095 is updated to get rid of the workaround allowing self-publication of...

Congressman Joe Neguse addresses a crowd of people during a rally in support of NCAR in Boulder on Dec. 20, 2025. (Cliff Grassmick/Daily Camera)

Something is rotten in the U.S. Justice Department, and Colorado’s congressmembers won’t stand for it (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

February 17, 2026 at 5:37 p.m.

"Colorado congressmembers Lauren Boebert, Joe Neguse and Jason Crow showed Washington, D.C., last week why...

The image Gary Messina took of the mountain lion moments before it rushed him on Crossier Mountain Trail on Nov. 11. (Courtesy of Gary Messina)

Colorado is caught in the crosshairs of mountain lion lovers and wolf haters (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

January 24, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

"The news this week that Colorado Parks and Wildlife employees are facing a variety of...

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a rally at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center on October 11, 2024 in Aurora, Colorado. Trump is campaigning in key states ahead of the November 5th presidential election. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Minnesota-like fraud in Colorado’s safety nets? Maybe, but keep the federal funds flowing to those in need (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

January 20, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

We, too, are horrified by the betrayal of America's social safety-net systems perpetrated by dozens...

A condo for sale in Broomfield on Dec. 18, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Colorado’s HOAs are getting crushed by insurance. Can anyone help? (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

January 12, 2026 at 11:42 a.m.

Homeowners association fees for people living in condominiums or other multi-unit dwellings have been increasing...

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Polis’ and Boebert’s calm leadership in the face of a vengeful president is what Colorado needs (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

January 3, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

Gov. Jared Polis' and Rep. Lauren Boebert's responses to Trump give us hope that Americans...

Denver’s Chamber can find a leader who drives investment without driving off half the staff (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

December 18, 2025 at 2:10 p.m.

The city’s Chamber of Commerce is far more than just a marketing tool for local...

The UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, March 24, 2023. (Photo by Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post)

Colorado hospitals have the profits to help more patients financially (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

December 16, 2025 at 10:52 a.m.

Not all of the responsibility for this failed system falls on hospitals, but Colorado’s non-profit...

Next year, six seats on RTD’s board, including those representing Boulder and Longmont, will be up for election. And as it looks now, that board is in dire need of a shake-up to reinvigorate leadership and actually see to it that our transit agency meets the needs of our communities. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

RTD’s budget woes raise serious questions about its priorities – and FasTracks (Editorial)

By Daily Camera Editorial

December 9, 2025 at 9:07 a.m.

Next year, six seats on RTD’s board, including those representing Boulder and Longmont, will be...

The sun sets over the line of scrimmage between Regis Jesuit and Cherry Creek in the second quarter of the game at Regis Jesuit High School, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Aurora, Colo. (Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post)

Don’t punish Colorado’s high school athletes. Instead, protect them from vulture recruiters (Editorial)

By The Denver Post Editorial Board

December 5, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

Colorado's high school coaches and athletic directors are clamoring for updated rules to make it...

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