Author: Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Colorado finally seems to have turned the tide on auto theft, as we noted here recently. For two years running, our state had the highest car-theft rate in the nation, but the rate started dipping last year and has continued to do so this year. Authorities attribute that welcome development partly to a new state…

Colorado’s capital city has been serving not only as innkeeper for an unprecedented, new wave of illegal immigrants — but also as their travel agent. Among the many services the administration of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston extends to them — all on the taxpayers’ tab — are tickets to the immigrants’ next intended destination. The…

About 25% of Colorado gun deaths since 2016 involved someone shooting in “justifiable self-defense,” based on data from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. Each incident means someone survived a rape, murder, armed robbery or another life-threatening crime. Going forward, teachers and students in schools — and anyone in a “sensitive” space where conflicts…

The hard truth about the race for Denver district attorney is that either of the two legal eagles vying for the post in the June 25 Democratic primary would be a big improvement over the current occupant. Indeed — with all due respect for both of the eminently qualified contenders — just about any member…

If only there were a magic wand to tame the high cost of living in our inflationary economy. Instead, there are politicians — who merely pretend to possess such superhuman power. And their attempts to wield it inevitably backfire, sooner or later. Thus, our sense of impending doom after news that another high-priced prescription drug…

Real medicine eases symptoms, searches for the cause and attempts a cure. To treat the mental health crisis, we should examine society’s soul and determine how to fix it. Children are the future and our children are mentally ill in record numbers. That makes our future mentally ill, unless we fix it. As explained in…

Denver is Colorado’s capital and its most populous city. With the largest municipal budget in the state, it also spends the most. It is, hands down, the state’s premier sanctuary city for illegal immigration, and it is an epicenter of auto theft. In addition to those debatable and, in some cases, dubious distinctions, Denver now…

A news report out of the nation’s capital this week all but dismisses the psychedelic drug ecstasy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder — casting serious doubt on a key pretext for legalizing dangerous hallucinogens in Colorado in 2022. Beltway insider Politico reported that an expert advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug…

Denver’s freshman Mayor Mike Johnston stands accused of leaning on the city’s Civil Service Commission to lower its standards and hire more police and firefighters. Members of the commission dispute the allegations — leveled by their own former executive director at a news conference last week just as the board was about to tell her…

The deaths of six young, militant activists in Boulder a half-century ago — who evidently blew themselves up by accident with time bombs they intended to plant and set off — were of course sad. Not because they died for a noble cause. They did not. But because, as with any untimely passing amid the…