Opinion

Sequester’s follies

A year ago, there were such high hopes for the sequestration agreement entered into by both parties. Surely this almost-across-the-board reduction in spending that would equally hit defense, a...

DATE: April 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Internet sales tax

Keeping up with emerging technology creates challenges at many levels — from individuals struggling to understand new tools and use them effectively to businesses implementing new practices that...

DATE: April 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Asking why

When an unexpected event changes life in dramatic and negative ways, human beings cast about for information that helps them make sense of what has gone wrong. After the Boston Marathon bombing on...

DATE: April 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Boston

What to watch in the marathon bombing is not the act of terrorism, but the response President Barack Obama got this one right. Speaking of the bombings at the Boston Marathon, he said, “So if you...

DATE: April 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Budget

Sequestration was conceived as a big stick to convince lawmakers to get serious about solving the nation's fiscal woes. It is not, itself, fiscal policy; it is intended to provoke careful...

DATE: April 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Budget

Sequestration was conceived as a big stick to convince lawmakers to get serious about solving the nation's fiscal woes. It is not, itself, fiscal policy; it is intended to provoke careful...

DATE: April 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Voter access

The Colorado Legislature will soon consider a bill that would create more options for voters by expanding mail balloting, increasing voter registration accessibility and broadens county clerks'...

DATE: April 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Entitlement

In recent years, the word "entitlement" has come to mean exactly the opposite of what it once did.The dictionary says it's "the act of entitling," "the state of being entitled," or "the right to...

DATE: April 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Gas and oil rules

There is a continuous tension between allowing gas and oil development in Colorado and ensuring that it takes place in a way that does not unduly harm public health, the environment, wildlife and...

DATE: April 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Misplaced justice

The Denver Post reported Monday that Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler has said prosecutors will ask for the death penalty in the case against James Holmes, the accused Aurora...

DATE: April 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Hard feelings

The Colorado Legislature has busied itself with divisive, if timely, social policy issues during the early months of the 2013 session. Debate about gun control, civil unions and in-state college...

DATE: March 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Immigration

In the late 1990s, and with upticks around Sept. 11, 2001, immigration has figured prominently on Americans' minds. What began as concern seemed to morph to alarm tinged with outright racism and...

DATE: March 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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