Author: The Aurora Sentinel

It’s telling that on the same day that Aurora boasted having landed the state’s new El Salvador Consulate – a testament to the city’s diverse and global reach – six council members later in the day would sully the victory and the city with a misguided demand that succumbs to fear and panders to xenophobia. The…

Gov. John Hickenlooper’s instinct is right; call state lawmakers back for a special session to address Colorado’s looming transportation calamity. The Colorado Legislature adjourned for the year Wednesday after a productive session of addressing myriad state issues. Remarkably, lawmakers were able to come to agreement on heavy-hitting issues despite a politically polarized Capitol that has…

This is where the reality hits the road, Colorado. We must raise taxes to fix the state’s failing and overwhelmed transportation infrastructure or suffer in ways we haven’t even imagined. Sound dire? It is. Actually, the lack of lanes, crumbling bridges and dilapidated roads were dire about 10 years ago across the state, and especially…

Judge Neil Gorsuch is smart, diligent, affable but fatally flawed as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court. Gorsuch, a product of Colorado and veteran of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, has long been an articulate jurist and self-proclaimed proponent of helping the law speak for itself. Yet, he misunderstands the Constitution’s driving…

Aurora leaders and police deserve much credit for doing the right thing for everyone who lives in or visits the city, regardless of citizenship. In this case the right thing has been the best thing for everyone. Doing the right thing may have branded Aurora with an unwanted moniker, that of being a so-called sanctuary…

I’m here to lament the dearth of heroes in our state and national legislatures willing to put an end to our annual vapid time traveling. Gone are all of those brave enough in Colorado to slay the state’s biannual move from Mountain Standard Time to Mountain Daylight Saving Time. Oh, the inanity. It’s already 8…

President Donald Trump offered more of the same illogical and ineffective restrictions on travel, immigration and refugees from troubled Muslim nations, increasing doubt on his administration’s ability to lead the country out of our immigration quagmire. Trump on Monday morning signed a revised version of his hasty and disastrous January travel and immigration ban. Travel…

Colorado’s gathering storm isn’t about partisan grandstanding anymore. It’s about real people being hurt by the political stalemate in the state Legislature. Colorado has perilous problems with deteriorating and inadequate roads, operating public schools and colleges and keeping the state safe. If anyone tells you differently, they’re either deluded, in denial or lying. The proof…

While the nascent Trump administration and a large band of tea-party Republicans might feel like they’re finally straightening out America’s immigration quagmire, they’re rapidly making a bad situation much worse – and refusing to admit the obvious. This mess is why Congress and the White House previously came so close to enacting comprehensive immigration reform.…

Ending Colorado’s death penalty is no longer just about doing the right thing; it’s about doing the only thing the state can. We have long argued that the death penalty is a repugnant, barbaric holdover from an unenlightened society, putting Colorado and much of the United States in the dubious company of North Korea, Iran,…