Author: Aurora Sentinel Editorial Board

Compromise is rarely a good solution to any crisis, and the state’s newly minted law focusing on the raging opioid and fentanyl overdose crisis is a perfect example. What’s indisputable in Colorado, and across the nation, is that the opioid and fentanyl addiction and overdose crisis continues to worsen, debilitating and killing more people all…

Nothing matters today for dozens of parents, friends and families of the children and staff massacred or terrorized Tuesday at their school in Uvalde, Texas. Soaring gas prices, Trump’s Big Lie, COVID-19 infection rates don’t matter today. Mattering least of all are the meaningless, hollow and cruel offerings of “thoughts and prayers” from political leaders…

Few things speak to how fundamentally broken the nation is than our tolerance for enraged gunmen regularly hunting down people in places like stores, churches, schools and even movie theaters. Combined with politicians and zealots profusely and openly lying and propagating dangerous and malevolent disinformation and propaganda, America rivals fascist Europe of the 1930s in…

Weeks after Aurora officials ousted former Police Chief Vanessa Wilson, and months into a pervasive problem with backlogged police reports, the public still can’t get straight answers about the controversy. Police reform and law enforcement issues are critical in Aurora, and this controversy is too important to just look the other way. It’s hard to…

It’s taken only about 10 years for a depraved minority of Americans to seriously put at risk more than 200 years of consistent evolution of democracy and civil rights. The nation – already shaken by six arduous and solid years of corruption by Donald Trump, his cronies and servile poltroons – was sandbagged this week…

The best scenario Aurora faces as its new-and-improved homeless camping ban rolls out is that not too many people will be maimed or killed. Even indifferent Aurora residents with homes can only hope that as the nascent Aurora camping ban gains momentum, if it ever does, that displaced campers don’t find new places to live…

There’s some good news coming from city hall and the State Capitol in how Aurora, Denver and much of the state are going to stop teens and young adults from killing and maiming each other with guns. Gov. Jared Polis and lawmakers from both parties agree youth violence has become so bad, and so widespread,…

As alarming and disappointing it is that Aurora is back in the news as the home of a corrupt police department and an inept city government, it’s most vexing that, once again, the city has been wounded with another self-inflicted injury. There’s no shortage of people to blame for the city being dragged into a…

In their misguided effort to push Chief Vanessa Wilson out of the Aurora Police Department, a handful of city lawmakers are turning a serious police records problem into an untenable debacle. City Manager Jim Twombly fired Wilson Wednesday, saying that the police reports backlog controversy was not part of his decision to sack her. Regardless,…