opinion
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Dustin Zvonek pinpoints Colorado’s housing-first homelessness failures | The OpEdge Podcast
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As homelessness continues to persist across Colorado, former Aurora City Councilman Dustin Zvonek paints a compelling picture of how the primary policy prescription may be enabling the root cause more than providing a permanent solution. In this OpEdge Podcast conversation with Gazette and Colorado Politics Deputy Opinion Editor Antonio Olivero, Zvonek, now the homelessness fellow…
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Robert Rodriguez spoke softly and carried a big stick | GUEST COLUMN
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President Teddy Roosevelt was known to have said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” The phrase was a reference to his leadership style, in which one negotiates in a civil and peaceful manner while also making clear one can exert power when needed. This style of leadership is one that Robert Rodriguez has effectively…
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Is Jared Polis turning into Dick Lamm? | Jon Caldara
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By Jon Caldara Dick Lamm was Colorado’s longest-serving governor, at 12 years in office (a close second goes to Roy Romer). And during those three terms, he slowly drifted to the right. Not because he became a Republican or even a conservative. He never did. He simply spent enough time governing to become less impressed…
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What matters to Colorado women ahead of momentous state elections | Paula Noonan
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Eight years have passed since Colorado has faced such a significant election season. Our choices now will set another eight years of our collective future. It’s temperature-taking time. The Women’s Foundation of Colorado recently completed a poll of 725 women voters on the state of their lives in our state. CapitolCommons.ai has presented a survey…
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Colorado modernized voting, but the ballot Is still closed for many | PODIUM
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By Amy Spicer On June 30, Colorado holds its primary election. Most voters will receive their ballots, make their choices, and never know that for many of the races on that ballot, the meaningful competition ended weeks or months earlier, in a room most of them never entered and may not have known existed. Earlier…
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Polis protects system rigged against workers | GUEST COLUMN
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By Jeremy Ross Shame on Gov. Jared Polis. He used his veto pen again to indulge the billionaire corporate elite by denying the freedom of workers to join together and form a union without being threatened, fired or blocked by a second election. For two years in a row, the Worker Protection Act passed out…
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Colorado’s other river problem | Hal Bidlack
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Well, the legislative session is over, and my inbox is filled with notifications of the many, many bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed, as well as the few he vetoed, and I could write quite a few pages on the new laws and what they mean for our future. I’d like to write, for example,…
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Help adult smokers transition away from cigarettes | GUEST COLUMN
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By Brian Erkkila Colorado families, educators and public-health leaders have spent years working to prevent underage tobacco use — and the newest national data suggest those efforts are paying off. The FDA’s 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is a timely reminder to keep the conversation grounded in scientific evidence, not fear or anecdote. NYTS…
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Rediscovering the shared purpose that brings us Coloradans together again | Miller Hudson
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Perhaps a good place to start considering gerrymandering is to take a closer look at Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of Congress, Massachusetts governor and fifth vice president of the United States. Born in 1744, he was an outspoken critic of British colonial rule in his twenties. Later, as a…
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Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara
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By Jon Caldara I am personally responsible for helping overpay socialists to make Colorado unaffordable, overregulated and one windstorm away from a power blackout. I failed you. Colorado legislators already get automatic inflation raises. You know, just like your job (I’m assuming the sarcasm bled through that one). No private-sector worker has that kind of…