Author: Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Politicians in Boulder and Telluride are suing Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy “for the substantial role they played and continue to play in causing, contributing to and exacerbating climate change,” as explained in a complaint by Boulder County, the City of Boulder and San Miguel County. Six years since the filing, the Colorado Supreme Court…

Contemplate a country in which the chief executive and supporters seize control of the Supreme Court. Imagine a country in which federal authorities prosecute and censor political opponents — depriving them of human rights, such as the freedom to speak without authoritative retaliation. We expect this of tin-pot dictatorships. Yet, Americans see tinges firsthand as…

A proposal to ban the hunting of mountain lions and bobcats in Colorado will face voters this fall. The Secretary of State’s Office affirmed this week that backers of Ballot Initiative 91 gathered enough valid signatures from Coloradans to land a spot on the statewide ballot. The 188,000 signatures that had been turned in to…

Denver motorists, be forewarned: Your days are numbered. At least, if City Hall has its way. Granted, passenger cars, trucks and SUVs aren’t about to disappear from the city anytime soon. Probably not ever from major thoroughfares and outer-ring neighborhoods. But make no mistake — the self-styled urban visionaries in Denver’s municipal government don’t think…

Mike Johnston’s first State of the City address as Denver mayor on Monday touted the inevitable list of debatable accomplishments. And The Gazette’s news coverage did a solid job fact-checking his claims. Some held up better than others. It’s worth noting that at least one of his claims is unassailable: “…our work is not done.”…

The price of your child’s “free” school lunch? About $166 million. And the cost could rise even higher. There’s talk of asking the state’s voters for more tax dollars to shore up Colorado’s school lunch subsidy — just two years after voters agreed to a tax hike to pay for the current program. As reported…

It was scarcely a month ago that The Gazette reported Denver could become one of the state’s most taxing cities — given a pending ballot proposal from City Hall to raise the local sales tax to bail out Denver Health. And there was talk even then that there was more to come. The other shoe…

Let’s welcome this week’s vote by the Colorado Democratic Party leadership against an anti-Israel resolution that was pushed by the party’s noisy and growing radical fringe. At a virtual meeting Monday, the state party’s central committee rejected a declaration whose absurd provisions included one condemning Israel for a “disproportionate military response” to a surprise attack…

It is sad when teenagers or young adults sell their bodies for lewd services — whether to feed children, pay bills or afford an education. It’s how economic despair can diminish human lives. So, imagine a town government enticing young people to exploit their bodies for the sake of funding government and private profiteers. That’s…

Voters stopped both of the state’s major political parties from walking off a cliff in Tuesday’s primaries. They resoundingly rejected most of each party’s fringe candidates — the noisemakers and rabble rousers who by and large had offered only radical rhetoric and baseless fear-mongering rather than addressing the pressing policy issues on voters’ minds. Conventional…