Author: Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Soaring housing costs, aided and abetted by the legislature’s misplaced priorities, have helped dull Colorado’s competitive edge over other states. It could cost our state business investment and job creation. That probably was already the educated guess of many Coloradans, but a new report from the Common Sense Institute takes the guesswork out of it…

It’s a familiar election-time theme: Colorado voters are alternately sweet-talked and browbeaten to let the state government keep their surplus tax dollars. Unless their permission is granted at the ballot box, any excess revenue – collected over and above the rates of inflation plus population growth – has to be refunded under the state constitution.…

Between his boyish looks and his early start in politics, critics once looked upon Mike Johnston as the proverbial young man in a hurry. But now 49 years old and Denver’s mayor, Johnston no longer seems all that young. Given his slow and meandering pace in picking the key people needed to run Denver City…

Between college campuses gone woke and tuition gone through the roof, it’s no wonder a new survey reveals doubts among Coloradans about the ability of high schools and higher ed to launch the state’s youths toward careers of choice. Respected Colorado polling firm Magellan Strategies sampled 1,550 of the state’s voters on wide-ranging education issues…

Were you underwhelmed by the special legislative session that was supposed to rein in our state’s skyrocketing property taxes? You were in good company. Turns out Gov. Jared Polis – who had convened the session – wasn’t much impressed, either. He didn’t admit to it in those words, of course. Instead, as reported by Colorado…

As soon as three new members of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education are sworn in today, they will be able to tout their first major accomplishment in office: replacing three members from the old board. Yes, Denver’s previous school board was that bad, and a changing of the guard following last month’s election…

We extend a heartfelt welcome to the many who have come to Colorado this week for the Jewish National Fund-USA conference. It begins today at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, where Gov. Jared Polis is expected to address the gathering. The conference convenes amid a particularly challenging time for the Jewish community in…

Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Lauren Boebert walk into a bar and start brawling. A drunk cries “wolf.” The politicians regroup like a unified team with a common enemy. Minus the bar, this is no joke. Boebert’s most recent House victory squarely aligns her with Obama and Biden on wolves. Maybe the three are guided…

The Legislature’s leftist fringe has been grabbing headlines with its extremist stands; most recently, against U.S. ally Israel. However, a subtler, more insidious shift to the left also is underway by ruling Democrats’ legislative leadership. And it could affect far more Coloradans. New Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, has reshuffled some committee structures and…

Denver’s elected leaders may wave off the nation’s ongoing border crisis as Washington’s problem – but rest assured, Denverites are paying for it. Not just through the tax dollars they fork over to Uncle Sam, but also through the tab they pick up for City Hall. And they may be paying even more than the…