Author: Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Proposition HH would gut the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights under the guise of a tax cut. Monday’s Gazette-sponsored debate on the measure, in partnership with 9 News Denver, did nothing to prove otherwise. After the debate, The Gazette’s editorial board again advises voters to reject HH, which begins with “Shall the state reduce property taxes…

Not too many generations ago, preschool was for the relative few who could afford it. Today, it’s a standard step in the education of most American kids. For those who can’t afford it, there’s a growing support system of publicly funded programs to pay for it. Given the sheer number, and diversity, of children enrolled…

Just how unpopular is the current lineup on the Denver Public Schools Board of Education? One of three incumbents whose seats are in play on this fall’s ballot decided against a reelection bid after a poll showed his support among likely voters was only in the single digits. The other two incumbents still on the…

It is impossible to champion Hamas and care about Palestinians in Israel’s Gaza Strip. To support Hamas is to approve of monsters who behead children, shoot civilians in the back, rape women and parade them like trophies. Those who support Hamas must approve of terrorists telling peaceful Palestinians to stay put and die when Israel…

If only Colorado could spend its way to higher student achievement. Our schoolchildren would be in a much better place. And yet, even as K-12 funding has been on the rise amid declining enrollment statewide – meaning even more dollars per pupil – student performance hasn’t responded in kind. That was the upshot of data…

The Denver metro area is likely to spend two-thirds of a billion dollars in public and charitable funding for homelessness by year’s end. That’s according to Colorado’s Common Sense Institute, which also has concluded that from the beginning of 2021 through the end of 2023, more than $1.7 billion will have been spent combatting homelessness…

Proposition HH is being packaged and peddled to the voting public as “property tax relief.” It is in fact a massive tax hike – in the guise of tax relief. Lipstick on a pig. That’s why many Coloradans are calling it “bait and shaft” – and it’s why we strongly recommend a “NO” vote on…

President Joe Biden minced no words Tuesday when describing the terrorist attacks on Israel. We hope Colorado’s Democratic leaders heard their party’s highest-ranking member loud and clear. If they listened, they should immediately deal with their latest hand-picked legislator – State Rep. Tim Hernández, a teacher and activist who represents Colorado House District 4. Anything…

Call them needle exchanges; call them safe-use sites; sugar-coat them as “overdose prevention centers.” By any name, they offer most illegal drug users a one-way trip to the dead end of addiction. You’d think policymakers would dismiss the concept as absurd: setting up officially sanctioned places where addicts from the streets can get clean needles…

As busloads of illegal immigrants arrive in Colorado, straining every fabric of our social services network, it is fun to blame Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He’s the bad guy – the man putting people on buses. It’s all for show, Abbott’s critics say. “They’re not even asking if they want to come to Denver or…