Author: The Denver Post

What a grim story to read the day after Memorial Day: The problem of stolen opioid and other drugs remains a serious and growing one at our nation’s hospitals and clinics for military veterans. Coloradans well know that such thefts, also called drug diversions, can lead to frightening situations in which patients face infections from…

It’s a harsh reality – the U.S. cannot afford to cover the current number of Medicaid recipients with the current level of benefits. Just how expensive is Medicaid? Republicans in the U.S. House were able to find $834 billion in savings over 10 years by drastically cutting the federal insurance coverage for the poor in…

President Donald Trump’s claim that his administration would focus its massive deportation efforts on removing criminals isn’t proving all that reliable. The decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials early this month to rein in a little-used congressional privilege exposes the hardliner ideology behind statistics that show many of those being trucked out of the…

The 25 members of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board need to overhaul their system for assessing the risk of and providing treatment for the state’s many incarcerated sex offenders. Never has that been more clear than after reading how dependent the assessment and treatment system is on the use of lie detector tests, known…

President Donald Trump took the high road in attempting to reset the tone and substance of his views of Islam this weekend in Riyadh.  His reset was dramatic and sorely needed. We applaud the discipline he exhibited in reforming his views. On the campaign trail, of course, Trump’s take on the major world religionwas disastrously…

Sen. Cory Gardner had a chance to take a stand against his fellow Republicans’ plans to ax methane emissions regulations in a way that prohibits similar rules, but he demurred last week. Instead it was Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona who voted with Democrats…

No doubt, many will criticize allowing prison inmates in Colorado to use electronic tablets as softhearted and wrongheaded. No doubt, many of those who have been victimized by crime will share that view. We’ll say from the outset that, as we take up this question, we definitely sympathize. Indeed, it came as a rude shock…

Sadly, the confirmation of fourth-generation Coloradan Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court comes as bittersweet. The Senate no longer has in place the filibuster rule that forced presidents to look to candidates able to gain broad support. Without that check, the mercurial Donald Trump can next easily turn to more aggressively conservative candidates as older…

We’re amazed President Donald Trump can sleep at night. His decision to roll back his predecessor’s Clean Power Plan is striking in both what it signals for the future of emissions in the United States, but also the likelihood it will erode efforts across the globe to clean up our atmosphere. For even the biggest…