Author: The Gazette editorial board

Voters need to know which Join Hickenlooper is running for the Senate. It could be the staunch law-and-order oil-and-gas man so defensive of fossil fuels and mining he drank fracking fluid. Later, he sipped river water tainted by the Gold Hill Mine disaster. He was the environmental left’s worst nightmare, with a “D” after his…

The increasingly Orwellian cancel culture has a hateful law firm determining which charities are worthy of donations and which are not. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colorado, wants answers. At issue is a practice of AmazonSmile, an Amazon service that allows consumers to direct 0.5% of each purchase to a charity of their choosing. There’s just…

If presidential conventions determine outcomes, this election is over. Fortunately for Democrats, and to the vexation of Republicans, presidential nominating conventions lack such power. The contrast between the Democratic and Republican conventions could not be clearer. A space alien watching them would think each party represented warring planets. Democrats spent four days telling Americans of…

Democratic politicians — including senatorial candidate John Hickenlooper — should unequivocally condemn this summer’s violent left-wing protests. The mostly white mobs, claiming to promote racial justice, represent a radicalized faction of the Democratic base. Silence regarding their actions smacks of tacit approval. Mainstream Democrats, unaffiliated voters, and most civilized voters have had enough. They are…

Politicians lead with visions. President Kennedy would take us to the Moon, and he did. Reagan would end Soviet communism, and he did. Obama would reform health care, and he did. In his early days as Denver mayor in 2003, John Hickenlooper had a big vision everyone loved. He pledged to end homelessness in just…

Anyone hoping Joe Biden would doze off or stumble on his words Thursday was likely disappointed. The 77-year-old Democratic nominee — known for gaffes, memory lapses, an inability to finish thoughts and other senior moments — read an inspiring and hope-filled speech without major incident. Though scripted, the words and delivery created a better-than-expected ending…

As far-left members of the Democratic base hurt and kill people with uprisings throughout the country, a less violent element of socialist revolutionaries hopes a quiet money campaign will buy Colorado’s nine electoral votes. Save Colorado’s sovereignty by voting “no” on Proposition 113 in November. Here’s the question voters will answer: “Shall the following Act…

Former Republican Congressman and Ohio Gov. John Kasich did the Democratic Party no favor by speaking at the organization’s national convention Monday. If anything, he damaged the chances of Democrats electing presumptive nominee Joe Biden to replace President Donald Trump. If Kasich had a record of success during his last eight years in public office,…

Candi CdeBaca — the novice Denver City Council member who is a veteran at stirring the pot — says she’d rather prevent crime than respond to it. She advocates a new “holistic, anti-racist, public health-oriented approach” to law enforcement in the Mile High City. So, she filed a proposal last week that would ask voters…

It’s a familiar political faceoff. On one side are environmental and animal-rights groups attempting to micromanage wildlife policies with a well-intended, ill-informed proposal at the ballot box. On the other side are the people who actually know the land and its biodiversity — among them, ranchers and others in agriculture; the outdoors economy and its…