Author: The Fort Collins Coloradoan Editorial Board

This year’s race for governor of Colorado features two seasoned major-party politicians with starkly different visions for our state. Putting aside the barrage of misleading and exaggerated claims made against both candidates by their political foes, voters have a clear choice between Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton. For the Coloradoan editorial board, the…

Douglas Road residents have waged a rapacious fight against the city of Thornton’s plan to run a water pipeline project under their main link to the rest of the world. They’ve questioned whether alternative routes were seriously considered, alleged conflicts of interestwithin county government and made a radical proposal to change the location where millions of gallons of Poudre River water…

Life’s messiness delivered a parcel of teaching moments to Colorado State University last week when a campus tour for prospective students and their parents turned into international news. The storm surrounding the unfortunate experience of two Native American brothers from New Mexico who were singled out and scrutinized while on campus simply because they looked…

America is stuck at a crossroads in its long, contentious relationship with firearms. We have reached the point where we can continue down the same path of how guns are viewed and regulated at the national and at state levels – a path that includes occasional and incomprehensible mass shootings – or take another direction…

Much has changed in Fort Collins since 2010, when voters agreed to increase the city sales tax to shore up services such as police and fire protection, transportation and parks. So, it makes sense to take time to examine the city’s current and future financial situation before asking voters to renew the tax, as will…