As Colorado and the rest of the nation emerge from COVID-19, one thing should be clear to all policymakers: We must do everything we can to ju…
POINT: L. Martin Nussbaum
Denver has homeless encampments and rioters who topple and destroy statues.
POINT: L. Martin Nussbaum
Denver has homeless encampments and rioters who topple and destroy statues.
Grandma DeLone died last month, and in a moment of weakness, I thought about store-bought stuffing for Thanksgiving. Now I feel a little asham…
Colorado has lost its most favored presidential election ‘battleground state” status just as our home teams seem to have lost their ability to…
Big questions remain about what exactly happened in the 2020 election.
Cities and towns provide essential services for nearly four and a half million residents in Colorado – including police, fire and sanitation –…
Now that the 2020 Colorado election dust has settled, it is time to collaborate on solutions to our continuing transportation backlog. It is c…
Now that the 2020 Colorado election dust has settled, it is time to collaborate on solutions to our continuing transportation backlog.
With the election and campaign hyperbole about COVID-19 behind us, it’s time to replace fear and emotion with reason in dealing with the pande…
With the election and campaign hyperbole about COVID-19 behind us, it’s time to replace fear and emotion with reason in dealing with the pande…
There is a largely meaningless debate occurring on social media about whether departing Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova wa…
I’ve just finished “How Jeff Bezos Can Fix Health Care”, written by a Colorado author and all-around swell guy. It ought to be read by every d…
My Sunday morning was a picture-perfect day on the Colorado Plains: warm sun, hot coffee, and my beautiful wife, Vonnie. Imagine my concern wh…
In March, former Cabinet Secretary and Denver Mayor Federico Pena, as chair of the Governor’s Emergency Council for Economic Stabilization and…
The decision to remain open or return to fully remote learning is an incredibly tough one for school and district leaders. They are balancing …
The energy industry is a critical driver of Colorado’s economy, which is why it’s imperative we advocate for responsible oil and gas developme…
Looking back on the local civic initiative “Dream City: Vision 2020,” the title and intent seem so stilted, so full of blind hubris. In 2008, …
This last week, a second attempt to recall Gov. Jared Polis failed to turn in any of the 631,266 valid signatures required to get it on the ba…
This last week a second attempt to recall Gov. Jared Polis failed to turn in any of the 631,266 valid signatures required to get it on the bal…
Point: Jeff Hunt
POINT: Jeff Hunt
Economists, politicians, and commentators are calling for more stimulus. “We need to do another stimulus package,” says Democratic economist S…
Just in time for Thanksgiving, states across the country are re-implementing restrictions on traveling, gatherings, and commerce in response t…
Democrats won the presidency and held the House by margins so slim they’d make Weight Watchers proud. And the betting is they’ll fail to captu…
Where has the coronavirus gone?
As a 12th grade teacher at Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello High School, I can attest that many of my students work harder…
Unity. Healing. Bridging the divide.
The year 2020 has presented unprecedented challenges to Coloradans and the world. And, yet, there are still many things for which we should al…
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission recently announced it plans to significantly increase, in some cases quadruple, setback rules…
Joe Biden wants to commit the US to the Paris Climate Accords. We are told that global warming is an existential threat to humanity and time i…
Joe Biden wants to commit the U.S. to the Paris Climate Accords. We are told that global warming is an existential threat to humanity, and tim…
“Trumpism,” the catchall term for the politics and personality that led Donald Trump to the White House, is entering the home stretch of a pre…
Point: John Cooke
POINT: John Cooke
Assuming Joe Biden’s election withstands voting challenges and Republicans hold their U.S. Senate majority after the impending runoff election…
Well into my third decade of service to this country via the U.S. Army, and approaching six months on the job as the garrison commander (mayor…
Our 59th consecutive presidential election has, we believe, just concluded. We are, like most people, awaiting the 23rd peaceful transfer of n…
Some of you might have heard there was a presidential election last week. You might have also heard that we’re a divided nation. How many of y…
The most important political dynamic in Colorado today is one that is so obvious that it is easy to miss: that is the monopoly on power and co…
Recent headlines indicate yet another “surge” in COVID-19 infections in El Paso County. Some area school districts are considering going to a …
Colorado voters, in general, and Denver voters, in particular, were in a generous and contradictory mood on Nov. 3. We will be grappling with …
Imagine a world in which the winner of the U.S. presidential election depended on a simple majority of votes.
You don’t need to be a cartographer to look at the county map of the 2016 presidential election to see that there is a political divide betwee…
Last Tuesday, Colorado voters went on a leftist rampage. They:
Of all the election night tallies ominously gnawing at small-business owners, the eventual, 57% to 43% passage of Proposition 118 was arguably…
Last Tuesday, Colorado voters went on a leftist rampage. They:
