Author: The Denver Post Editorial Board

The argument is a specious one – the guaranteed right to free speech should prevent a Christian baker from being compelled by the government to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. But like any deception, this one falls apart upon close examination, and we hope the U.S. Supreme Court justices see through the…

Gov. John Hickenlooper is doing the right thing in jettisoning his administration’s $210,000-a-year contract with the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber and Schreck following the announcement his chief of staff is rejoining the firm. Elected officials and public employees are stewards of taxpayer dollars and thus must avoid even the appearance of impropriety when it comes to…

Colorado officials have drafted a letter warning tens of thousands of state residents that the children in their care may soon lose coverage under the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP. It’s a sad message, and a sad testament to Congress’ inability to set aside partisan politics long enough to help protect the most vulnerable…

The possibility of a credit rating downgrade should give Colorado lawmakers extra motivation to strike a deal next year on a plan to stabilize the state’s financially burdened public employees’ pension fund. But before we start throwing money at the problem, let’s make sure we get this generational fix to a crucial retirement tool for…

In the same month that our nation celebrated its veterans, a new federal investigation found that VA officials broke the rules by keeping extensive off-the-books waiting lists for patients seeking mental-health therapy. This is depressing news, and difficult to accept following the bruising lessons the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs should have learned after the discovery…

When we endorsed the GOP tax reform plan two weeks ago, we had the basic expectation that Republicans would be intellectually honest in their pursuit of a lower corporate tax rate and a more fair individual tax code. Sadly, we assumed too much. Unable to keep their tax giveaway within the massive limits of $1.4 trillion over…

Once again we face a disturbing story about a Colorado lawmaker who crossed the line of appropriate behavior. Rep. Paul Rosenthal, a Democrat from Denver, is accused of touching the inner thigh and bottom of a man in his mid-20s at a fundraising event for another candidate in 2012. Denver Post reporter John Frank reported Wednesday that…

In 2020, scientists from the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus will ship a shoe-box-sized satellite into Earth’s orbit to monitor enormous gaseous planets whose evaporating atmospheres trail along like comet tails. Once it’s deployed by NASA, let’s hope nothing smashes into it – or that it doesn’t smash into something else. Space – or at…

Rep. Steve Lebsock is trying to distract the public from multiple complaints that he made overt and aggressive sexual advances, often in a professional setting, that if true cross the line of appropriate behavior in the workplace. Coloradans shouldn’t be diverted from focusing on the underlying issue here. Lebsock is very much a public official, subject…

Most of us have little idea the horrors of combat facing men and women in our armed forces. But the high suicide rates and mental health problems that war too often bestows upon the strongest and bravest among us cry out for attention. Last week, as the nation celebrated its veterans, we were pleased to…