Author: Sentinel Colorado Editorial Board

There’s not much new when it comes to finding ways to influence human behavior. For the most part, appealing to people’s sense of fear and greed continues to be the leading options in all kinds of human transactions, including Aurora law enforcement. Aurora police and leaders of the city’s Youth Violence Prevention Program are working…

It’s irresistible to point out that the person the community wants to run Aurora Public Schools is the person the school board just lost. APS is now paying a recruitment firm more than $40,000 to find someone to replace former APS Superintendent Rico Munn. After more than nine years, Munn stepped down as district chief…

One of the few certain things about the regional and local housing crisis is that it is absolutely a crisis. There is no doubt that the spiraling cost of apartment and house rent in Aurora and across the metroplex – even across the state – is creating a vast economic conundrum that will plague the…

A police department decimated by seemingly endless stories of drunken, lying, physically abusive, racist, discredited cops wants to make it easier to hire people to be cops who have been caught or convicted of some of those behaviors. What could go wrong? While the notion on some levels doesn’t ring the alarm bells as one…

Proponents of Colorado’s Fair Workweek Employment Standards proposal have pointed out a handful of worrisome labor problems across a variety of industries, but they’ve also shown that their controversial bill is not the answer. State legislators would be wise to spike House Bill 23-1118 and look for real solutions to nagging labor issues. From the…

The nation’s growing immigration quagmire has become a crisis only because we’ve needlessly made it one. Yet another generation of MAGA Republicans are now part of Congress and insisting that shutting down almost all immigration – and deporting those here without proper credentials – is a practical solution. It’s nothing more than the same dangerous…

The state-required intervention into Aurora’s deeply troubled police department desperately needs an intervention. In just the past few days, an Aurora officer was charged with punching a disabled woman in the face while he was off-duty in his apartment complex. A notorious Aurora cop who was protected from being fired after passing out drunk in…

We all know how Colorado, California, Oregon, Oklahoma and Texas differ. Oklahoma and Texas have become infamous as far-right bastions of conservatism. Governors and Republican-held legislatures there live and breathe “tough on crime” rhetoric and lawmaking. Political leaders in Colorado, California and Oregon, seen as largely progressive states, question whether “tough on crime” is actually…