Author: Aurora Sentinel Editorial Board

Despite this year’s boisterous and contentious election, voters need to pay close attention to state school board races, where a potential disaster looms under the public’s overloaded radar. Few give much thought to the Colorado Board of Education, and even fewer understand the board’s role in education. For decades, the board has served as a…

Of all the Colorado elected official choices voters must decide this year, the race most demanding clarity is that of state attorney general. For months, Republicans have erroneously tried to make an incongruous election case in the race between incumbent Democrat Phil Weiser and GOP challenger, John Kellner, the nascent district attorney for the Arapahoe…

Successful political leadership is about making apt choices. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has accumulated a track record over the last four year of making solid decisions while guiding the state through seemingly endless crises. His challenger, Republican Heidi Ganahl, in less than a year of campaigning for governor, has offered the public a litany of…

Nearly three years after Elijah McClain was killed because of a botched encounter with Aurora Police and medics, McClain’s family, and the public, can still make little sense of the debacle. News this week from the Adams County coroner, regarding a lethal dose of ketamine injected into McClain, did little to resolve the calamity.  On…

Last call. The party’s over, Colorado. After just more than a century of essentially intemperate growth and industrialization in Aurora, across the Front Range and all throughout the West, we’re out of water. Old timers and newcomers alike blame the worst drought in more than 1,200 years for the depletion of mega-reservoirs, such as lakes…

It’s good news that at least some lawmakers say they’re keenly interested in addressing rampant car thefts in Aurora and the metro area. The bad news for future car-theft victims is that at least one local proposal will do little or nothing to solve the problem. Aurora Councilperson Dustin Zvonek has been peddling a plan…