Commentaries

GUEST OPINION: CoCo would provide diversified transportation options

Updated 4 days ago

Colorado needs the Front Range Passenger Rail, or CoCo, and we need it sooner rather than later. When I first championed the I-25 Gap Project in...

Perspective: Eastern justice for the Western Slope

Updated 5 days ago

The Western Slope is roughly a third of Colorado. It holds the headwaters of the Colorado River system, the federal land that covers most of its counties, and...

GUEST OPINION: The evolving AI economy demands continuous learning

Updated 5 days ago

Across nearly every major industry, experienced professionals are increasingly being asked to adapt to AI-powered tools and evolving digital systems just to remain competitive. Research from the World...

GUEST COLUMN: Polis and the Great Colorado Wildlife Experiment

Updated 1 week ago

By now, Colorado sportsmen, ranchers, outfitters, cattle producers, and anyone who’s ever dragged an elk quarter out of a snow-covered canyon have become familiar with Gov. Jared Polis’s...

GUEST OPINION: The arts belong in the wellness conversation

Updated 1 week ago

Dustin Zvonek pinpoints Colorado’s housing-first homelessness failures | The OpEdge Podcast

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Perspective: ‘Structural deficit’ = spending too much

Updated 2 weeks ago

GUEST OPINION: Colorado Springs backed partnerships, Washington responded

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Rachel Gabel diagnoses Colorado’s sharp rural-urban divide | The OpEdge Podcast

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GUEST OPINION: Remembering the redoubtable film critic Rex Reed

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Perspective: Behind the AI curtain at Anthropic

Updated 3 weeks ago

Perspective: Colorado’s declining competitiveness

Updated 3 weeks ago

GUEST OPINION: Colorado Springs and UCCS have a strong, essential connection

Updated 3 weeks ago

GUEST OPINION: College students, young adults face mental health challenges

Updated 3 weeks ago

Michael Fields reviews Colorado’s 2026 legislative session | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 3 weeks ago

Michael Fields, executive director of Advance Colorado, joins OpEdge host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger to assess the good, the bad and the ugly of...

Perspective: Front Range railroaded

Updated 4 weeks ago

The proposed Colorado Front Range Rail will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars yet produce no real benefits. According to the service plan negotiated with BNSF,...

GUEST COLUMN: When higher ed addresses real needs, Colorado wins

Updated 4 weeks ago

As a resident of Gunnison for more than two decades, I have heard the same story told in different ways. A hospital administrator explaining why they pay travel...

DJ Summers dives into the costlier state of Colorado | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 1 month 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...

Perspective: Colorado’s crumbling right to arms

Updated 1 month ago

GUEST OPINION: Homeowners can use low-water landscaping to save money, enhance home’s value

Updated 1 month ago

GUEST OPINION: The banality of modern-day commencement speeches

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Superintendent Michael Gaal on why schools work better without union contracts | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 1 month ago

GUEST OPINION: Colorado Springs can lead the next era of innovation

Updated 1 month ago

Trends and challenges in higher education | Tom Cronin

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GUEST OPINION: District 11 families deserve transparency and truth

Updated 1 month ago

PERSPECTIVE: Colorado’s Legion of Doom under the Gold Dome

Updated 1 month ago

GUEST OPINION: Colorado Springs School develops the whole child

Updated 1 month ago

GUEST OPINION: What if politics practiced the spirit of aloha?

Updated 2 months ago

Perspective: Gas is key to Colorado’s energy

Updated 2 months ago

In a state where winter isn’t optional, you’d think reliable heat wouldn’t be either. Yet, Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission seems increasingly comfortable with discarding the...

GUEST OPINION: Assure access to home-school enrichment programs

Updated 2 months ago

There’s a common misconception that homeschooling happens around a kitchen table. For many Colorado families, that picture is incomplete. Homeschooling is a deeply intentional choice, one...

GUEST COLUMN: Address recalls, special elections with voter engagement

Updated 2 months ago

In March, Tom Bailey stepped down from his Colorado Springs City Council District 2 seat, following a successful certified recall petition by District 2 residents....

Dick Wadhams charts Colorado’s rocky political shifts | The OpEdge Podcast

Updated 2 months ago

In the latest episode of The OpEdge — The Gazette’s new opinion podcast — veteran campaign winner, political analyst and Gazette columnist Dick Wadhams dissects the...