Author: Denver Gazette Editorial Board

Our entire state has a stake in Denver International Airport – the world’s third busiest – and that includes simply being able to get there on time to catch a flight. The long-overdue widening of congested Peña Boulevard, the only traffic conduit to the global transportation hub, is meeting resistance from the usual interests. From…

Looks like Uncle Sam is at it once more – attempting to tax Coloradans’ TABOR refunds in a bid that would amount to double taxation. It was just last February that the IRS had backed down from its previous such attempt after bipartisan pushback from Colorado’s congressional delegation and elected leadership, including Gov. Jared Polis.…

Chances are you’ve never heard of S.R. DeBoer. Not unless you’ve stopped by the modest south Denver park that bears his name, and you’ve read his brief biography posted on a sign there. In which case you learned of the remarkable role he played in developing the many parks and other cherished public amenities we…

Yet another youthful rabble rouser from the political fringe joined Colorado’s legislature last weekend. A Democratic Party vacancy committee on Saturday picked 26-year-old Chicano activist and schoolteacher Tim Hernández to represent Denver’s House District 4 in the General Assembly through 2024. The committee’s choice probably was predictable. Hernández had racked up endorsements from leading legislative Democrats; he…

No prison system is perfect, and most are far from it. That’s true in Colorado, too. Prison conditions can fall short – sometimes, abysmally so – of the ideal standard for securely yet humanely housing criminal convicts. And while there are checks and balances in place to provide redress for inmates’ grievances, that process, as…

At times, it’s amusing when John Hickenlooper speaks before thinking. But sometimes, it’s reckless – and even comes across as clueless – which was the case when Colorado’s junior U.S. senator made an appearance at the Denver Press Club last week. After confirming for the media he would seek a second term in the Senate…

It looks like Colorado voters won’t know for sure until after the Nov. 7 election whether the ballot’s Proposition HH – the Legislature’s massive money grab, masquerading as “property tax relief” – is constitutional. And even then, the determination will be made only if the measure passes. That’s the upshot of a ruling this week…

Tom Wolf was a homeless drug addict roaming the streets of San Francisco five years ago. Today, he’s an outspoken advocate for an approach to homelessness that is strikingly different from the “housing first” policies now in place in a lot of U.S. cities, including Denver. Last week, as reported by The Gazette, he stopped…

The best that Colorado’s education establishment can say about the lackluster student-achievement scores released Thursday is that, overall, the state’s K-12 public schoolers are within reach of pre-pandemic scores. That doesn’t offer much hope. While some of the state’s 178 school districts posted marginal improvements over last year’s results – and some districts did even…

It looks like Denver’s sales tax to fund college scholarships might be doing more to grow government than to help low-income students pay for higher ed. As reported Wednesday in The Gazette, the program has accumulated millions of dollars in revenue in the last five years yet has distributed less than half of those funds…