It was reassuring to learn this week that the president has nominated distinguished attorney and respected policy sage Cole Finegan to be Colorado’s next U.S. attorney. His nomination now awaits confirmation by the U.S. Senate; if approved as is likely, he will succeed former U.S. Attorney J… Read more

Like a third-grader who keeps losing his lunch money on the way to school, Colorado’s public education system starts almost every year with all the resources you’d think it would need to achieve better outcomes for its students. Yet, it never manages to arrive at that goal. Read more

A good gauge of any ballot proposal’s likelihood of success? The desperation of its opposition. The more potentially popular the question that will be put to voters, the more outlandish, reckless, dishonest and insulting the campaign against it. Read more

Want a booster shot to beef up your COVID vaccinations? You’ll have to cool your heels a while longer. Read more

Imagine trying to get a COVID test — only to have the lab refuse to serve you. Then, imagine if it was because of your politics. Pretty infuriating, right? But nationally prominent conservative commentator Candace Owens didn’t get mad at all when that happened to her. Read more

Colorado added about 745,000 people to its population in the decade ending in 2020, to 5.8 million, with 95% of that growth occurring in a handful of counties along Interstate 25 north and south of Denver. Read more

Just when it seemed enough had been said in the back-and-forth over school mask mandates — and different state and local governments were reasonably using their leeway on the matter amid a COVID surge — the Biden administration has made an issue out of it once again. Read more

On Aug. 23, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe opened its new charter school, Kwiyagat Community Academy in Towaoc, to kindergarten and first grade students. Kwiyagat means “bear” in the Ute language. The bear is sacred among the Ute people. Read more

Coloradans are sharply divided over a lot of issues, so it’s no surprise they’re evenly split on the hot topic of the moment — whether to mask up their kids for school. Read more

This past Saturday, Ohana Kuleana Community Garden held an open house that by all reports was well-attended. As you will recall, the garden is facing the possibility that it will be sold by its current owner, Bob Lieb, who was its instigator and has long supported the garden in many ways. Read more

Out of the blue, an awkward academic phrase — “critical race theory” — has become fightin’ words. Yet, the warring sides can’t seem to agree exactly what they are fighting over. Read more

Since January, as part of our FOCUS 2021 series of editorials, we’ve been addressing the lack of affordable housing and housing for unsheltered people under the banner of “Beyond Our Means,” a reference to the high cost of housing in Durango and La Plata County. Read more