Commentaries

GUEST OPINION: CoCo would provide diversified transportation options

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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 2 months 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 COLUMN: Polis and the Great Colorado Wildlife Experiment

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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 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...

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

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Perspective: ‘Structural deficit’ = spending too much

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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

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Perspective: Colorado’s declining competitiveness

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

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

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

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Perspective: Front Range railroaded

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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 3 months 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

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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

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Colorado did not become one of the country’s most restrictive states for gun ownership overnight. The transformation happened incrementally, one bill at a time, often...

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

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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

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

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Trends and challenges in higher education | Tom Cronin

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GUEST OPINION: District 11 families deserve transparency and truth

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

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GUEST OPINION: Colorado Springs School develops the whole child

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

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Perspective: Gas is key to Colorado’s energy

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GUEST OPINION: Assure access to home-school enrichment programs

Updated 3 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 3 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 3 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...

GUEST OPINION: Extending coal burning at Nixon is bad for residents’ breathing

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado lawmakers are currently deliberating Senate Bill 26-22, a proposal by Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) to give them permission to “extend the deadline to find...