Opinion

TEST 1 Primary voters rejected big money in politics | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 weeks ago

While we’re in an election campaign lull between now and Labor Day, we have time to consider the impact of $102 million in campaign contributions...

Candidate’s disturbing anti-animal agriculture history | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 months ago

Rep. Manny Rutinel has busted out a cowboy hat for campaign photos and has thrown it into the ring to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District in D.C. He is...

GUEST OPINION: CoCo would provide diversified transportation options

Updated 2 months 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...

Graduates: Your degree is worthless without valuable life skills

Updated 2 months ago

SAN DIEGO — Commencement season transports me back two decades to a graduation speech I was honored to give at a university in my...

Perspective: Eastern justice for the Western Slope

Updated 2 months ago

Why I’m voting Democrat | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 months ago

When it come to math, just do it | Pius Kamau

Updated 2 months ago

Should autonomous weapons be allowed to kill?

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LETTERS: Keep childhood wild; putting the Waldo fire to rest

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EDITORIAL: When school spending grows the front office

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LETTERS: A new threat on the trails; issues with USPS

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GUEST COLUMN: Polis and the Great Colorado Wildlife Experiment

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EDITORIAL: Give guv credit — but not too much — for his vetoes

Updated 2 months ago

Five cultural lies people accept as being true | Paul Batura

Updated 2 months ago

LETTERS: When a public utility forgets the public; post office

Updated 2 months ago

When a public utility forgets the public Garry Butcher’s letter (June 5, 2026) rightly names what many Colorado Springs residents feel: a $150,000 raise moving...

GUEST OPINION: The arts belong in the wellness conversation

Updated 2 months ago

When we think about wellness, most of us think about exercise, nutrition, and sleep. We might think about annual checkups, mental health or spending time outdoors. We probably don’t think about...

EDITORIAL: What’s the cost of no power to Coloradans?

Updated 2 months ago

It long has been fashionable among the zero-emissions set to “calculate” the wide-ranging costs to society of carbon-emitting fuels. The perils posed by that carbon...

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

Updated 2 months 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...

LETTERS: Powers Blvd. issues; reckless juveniles

Updated 2 months ago

The “launchpad generation” and the three A’s | Eric Sondermann

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ENDORSEMENT: Graham, Nelson for commission; Carver, Flanell for legislature

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Michael Bennet’s campaign for governor: A closer look at record and experience | Cronin and Loevy

Updated 2 months ago

LETTERS: Noise mitigation efforts not effective; Democrats’ choice in Maine

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CPW has a weighty decision to make on a recent wolf kill | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 months ago

ENDORSEMENT: Vote Michael Allen — for a real attorney general

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Perspective: ‘Structural deficit’ = spending too much

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Is Jared Polis turning into Dick Lamm? | Jon Caldara

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ENDORSEMENT: Kirkmeyer’s credibility can carry the day in governor’s race

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A tale of two debates | Vince Bzdek

Updated 2 months ago

Ballots go out Monday as the June 30 state primary elections bear down on us. As a result, it is suddenly the season of proliferating political debates,...

LETTERS: Revisit the mayor’s vision; primary election voting is underway

Updated 2 months ago

Revisit the mayor’s vision As Colorado Springs continues to grapple with rising homelessness and policies focused on moving people from camps and public spaces, we...

ENDORSEMENT: Jeff Crank keeps CD-5 on cutting edge of national defense

Updated 2 months ago

Most members of Congress have to tout a laundry list of good deeds for their districts as they seek reelection after their first term in...

Moderates are not our salvation | Mike Rosen

Updated 2 months ago

The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely inaccurate. A stark example is Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who was elected governor of...