Author: The Denver Post

The Denver Post’s Aldo Svaldi reported great news for Colorado’s economy last Sunday: the oil and gas industry is firing up its drilling rigs again and planning to invest more than $4 billion in Colorado this year. That will not only mean more jobs with the seven public companies that disclosed their plans to ramp…

What bad timing for Colorado’s Medicaid system to look like it is incapable of accurately billing the federal government for Medicaid recipients or managing the claims providers make for services. As Republicans look to overhaul the system – House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan fundamentally alters and ultimately reduces federal support of the Medicaid programs run…

The sweetest deal in baseball is up for renegotiation and we hope Colorado taxpayers come out ahead this time around, instead of holding the tab for capital improvement needs at Coors Field and still none of the revenues. To recap, in the early 1990s Colorado voters in seven counties agreed to pay a tenth of…

Charter schools in Colorado often aren’t receiving an equal share, or any share, of local tax revenue generated by voter-approved property tax increases that are known as mill-levy overrides. Voters have approved mill-levy overrides in more than 30 districts to fund schools over what the state sets as a limit for property assessment, and the…

Of the 28 states that have legalized marijuana for adults or patients, 12 ban home cultivation and no other state allows people to grow more than 16 plants in their homes. There is no true limit in Colorado. A medical marijuana patient can get a doctor’s permission to grow as many as 99 plants. A caregiver…

Of the 28 states that have legalized marijuana for adults or patients, 12 ban home cultivation and no other state allows people to grow more than 16 plants in their homes. There is no true limit in Colorado. A medical marijuana patient can get a doctor’s permission to grow as many as 99 plants. A…

What a remarkable time for our nation when reasonable adults must wonder if the president has misplaced his tinfoil hat while tweeting, or whether he really knows what it is he is talking about. President Donald Trump’s assertions that President Barack Obama engaged in Watergate-style spying on him – claims made without supporting evidence –…

The more we get to know about Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the more he impresses. President Donald Trump’s third pick to serve as national security adviser already is showing the kind of strong-minded independence we hoped he would demonstrate by urging the president to drop his gleeful insistence in describing jihadists as “radical Islamic terrorists,”…

White House spokesman Sean Spicer’s assertion that there would be “greater enforcement” of federal law when it comes to recreational marijuana programs has stirred uncertainty and angst in a state that sold and taxed $1.3 billion worth of pot in 2016. But before industry leaders start plotting a secession movement, let’s all take a deep…

White House spokesman Sean Spicer’s assertion that there would be “greater enforcement” of federal law when it comes to recreational marijuana programs has stirred uncertainty and angst in a state that sold and taxed $1.3 billion worth of pot in 2016. But before industry leaders start plotting a secession movement, let’s all take a deep…