Commentaries
Lindsay Datko on school safety, misconduct and transparency in Jeffco schools | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 7 hours ago
Jeffco Kids First founder Lindsay Datko joins The OpEdge to explore concerns about school safety, staff misconduct and transparency in Jefferson County Schools. Datko tells...
Colorado’s role in Spirit Airlines’ demise should not be ignored | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 5 days ago
By Robin Rossenfeld At a time when Colorado families are already struggling with rising transportation costs, the collapse of Spirit Airlines could not come at...
The new Trustees Report is a wake-up call for Congress | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 6 days ago
By Sara Schueneman Every year, the Social Security Trustees Report provides an important snapshot of the long-term outlook for one of America’s most popular and...
Dustin Zvonek pinpoints Colorado’s housing-first homelessness failures | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 1 week ago
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...
Robert Rodriguez spoke softly and carried a big stick | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 week ago
Polis protects system rigged against workers | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 weeks ago
Rachel Gabel diagnoses Colorado’s sharp rural-urban divide | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 2 weeks ago
Help adult smokers transition away from cigarettes | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 weeks ago
High-potency hemp products are hurting Colorado kids | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 3 weeks ago
Michael Fields reviews Colorado’s 2026 legislative session | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 3 weeks ago
Quiet at the state Capitol doesn’t mean silence on energy policy | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 3 weeks ago
The history, and future, of extinction in Colorado | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 3 weeks ago
Colorado is too wealthy to keep cutting basic services | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 4 weeks ago
DJ Summers dives into the costlier state of Colorado | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 4 weeks ago
Common Sense Institute’s Director of Communications & Research Operations DJ Summers dives deep with The OpEdge Podcast host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger regarding Colorado’s...
As the AI age evolves, Colorado must step up to protect our kids | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
By Ann O’Leary Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities for young people to learn, create, explore and build confidence. It is opening new doors for...
Strengthening Colorado’s mental-health workforce | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
By Kyle Brown and Lindsay Gilchrist More than 1.2 million Coloradans live with a diagnosed mental health condition, and in 2023, one in five people...
Superintendent Michael Gaal on why schools work better without union contracts | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 1 month ago
In the latest episode of The OpEdge — The Gazette’s new opinion podcast — Colorado Springs District 11 Superintendent Michael Gaal reveals why teachers’ union contracts...
The rural voice missing from the Nexstar debate | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
Trends and challenges in higher education | Tom Cronin
Updated 1 month ago
Protecting the integrity of Colorado’s legal profession | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
Can a law be neutral if it overrides faith-based beliefs? | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
Legislating at the speed of artificial intelligence | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
Legislative Dems follow highway robbery with blackmail | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 1 month ago
‘Move fast and break things’ not way to fix Colorado’s roads | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
Common-sense guardrails for new data center development benefit people, the planet | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
By Joe Antus Colorado’s business leaders are right about one thing: Colorado is at an inflection point. In a recent letter to Gov. Jared Polis,...
All Coloradans should have a say at the Public Utilities Commission | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
By Emma Pinter I have a sticky note in my kitchen that reminds me of Xcel Energy’s peak hours, when they charge higher rates for...
Protect patient access to life-saving drugs | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
By Leslie Herod Since its inception, Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) created fear among patients around effects to life-saving medicines and the negative ramifications...
Don’t upend Colorado’s ‘healthy balance’ on stream access | PODIUM
Updated 2 months ago
By Ashley House “The horizon is a perfect line between sky and water.” I heard this line of dialogue waft through my parents’ living room...
Colorado can’t fall behind on refocusing nutrition assistance | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
Homeschool enrichment programs serve vital and cost-effective role | GUEST COLUMN
Updated 2 months ago
Dick Wadhams charts Colorado’s rocky political shifts | The OpEdge Podcast
Updated 2 months ago
Lawmakers pile on Colorado taxpayers — even more | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado is ensuring children come first | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago
In the Age of AI, much-needed protections in mental health care | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago
Every life has equal value; Colorado must reject House Bill 26-1281 | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago
Proposed data-based marketing bill would hurt small Colorado businesses | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado’s creative economy needs a business structure that actually fits | OPINION
Updated 2 months ago

