Author: The Denver Post Editorial Board

Let’s clear the air: Marijuana users in Colorado need places to consume. It’s been a flaw in the state’s legalized recreational marijuana experiment since the day pot shops opened on Jan. 1, 2014. The result has been flagrant use in public that is both a violation of state law, which bans public consumption, and a…

The long-awaited bipartisan proposal to fix Colorado’s pension system is a solid first salvo in the politically fraught fight ahead to secure the future retirements of around 566,000 people. There’s much to like in Senate Bill 200. It raises the retirement age for future hires to 65, imposes a longer time period for the calculation of…

Congressman Mike Coffman called this week for President Donald Trump to relieve his VA secretary, David Shulkin, of his duties. It appears the Trump appointee played fast and loose with the taxpayers’ money to enjoy what amounted to a grand European vacation for himself and his wife. Reading through the findings of an investigation conducted by the Department of Veterans Affairs’…

We are trying not to judge House Minority Leader Patrick Neville by his spectacularly bad proposal to allow anyone with a concealed-carry permit – an easy-to-obtain document in Colorado – to bring their gun onto school campuses. We’ll just leave it at expressing great gratitude to the Democrats who killed House Bill 1037 on Wednesday.…

Colorado’s race for governor – at least for the general election – got a lot more interesting this week with the early exit of former Congressman Tom Tancredo. Hopefully, the GOP front-runner’s departure makes the primary contest more competitive and substantive across a broader range of issues facing the state than the hardliner’s focus on illegal…

Downtown Denver is humming this weekend with the energy of thousands of people attending the four-day Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show convention: an exciting development that is not only an economic coup for the city and state, but a political one, too. We welcome both victories. Colorado should be known as the epicenter of outdoor…

What if you could create affordable housing options in Colorado and fight pollution all at the same time? A measure before Colorado lawmakers – House Bill 1054 – seeks to charge shoppers a tax on plastic bags and use the revenue to provide affordable housing solutions. If passed, the measure would go to voters, as required by…

A uranium company that is headquartered in Colorado “lobbied extensively” for President Donald Trump to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument, according to an investigation in last Sunday’s New York Times. The implications of the story written by Hiroko Tabuchi were staggering: an area of long-held federal land only recently protected by President Barack…

A uranium company that is headquartered in Colorado “lobbied extensively” for President Donald Trump to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument, according to an investigation in last Sunday’s New York Times. The implications of the story written by Hiroko Tabuchi were staggering: an area of long-held federal land only recently protected by President Barack…

After more than a year of waiting, all that stands between Coloradans and 11 miles of commuter rail line from downtown Denver to Wheat Ridge is the elusive approval of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Count us among those happy that the PUC is holding a final hearing to determine whether the 15 road crossings the…