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The vast majority of parents in Colorado don’t have to stay up at night worrying about the single measles case in Pueblo sparking a statewide outbreak because their children have received both doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. The vaccine is 97% effective at preventing infection from the dangerous virus, and an estimated…

Gov. Jared Polis is right to promise a veto on Senate Bill 5 unless a compromise is found between unions and businesses that can be carried forward by lawmakers looking to make it easier for unions to organize labor in Colorado. Forcing an agreement on any changes to the Labor Peace Act is essential for…

Jeanette Vizguerra is not a hardened criminal — she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in 2009 and served 21 days in jail for her crime. Jeanette Vizguerra, 53, was arrested on March 17, 2025, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. (Photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Vizguerra is not a threat to…

OpenAI and Google, having long trained their ravenous bots on the work of newsrooms like this one, now want to throw out long-established copyright law by arguing, we kid you not, that the only way for the United States to defeat the Chinese Communist Party is for those tech giants to steal the content created…

Colorado’s budget woes continue with a dire warning last month from the non-partisan budget staff at the state Capitol: “The budget appears to be on an unsustainable path.” The hole Colorado lawmakers are trying to fill is about $1 billion and isn’t the result of reductions in revenue – the state’s economy has been strong…

In a heartless show of cruelty, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, said Wednesday she will push for a criminal investigation into the humanitarian aid four U.S. mayors provided to refugees and other immigrants who were bussed to their cities beginning in 2022. Luna said during the congressional hearing on sanctuary cities…

No one knows for sure how America’s economy will react to a drastic pullback on spending and employment because it hasn’t been done for two generations. We urge caution as the White House rapidly cuts jobs and programs, but such prudence likely must come from Congress. After decades of being unable to cut the deficit…

Coloradans — and our many lovely visitors — expect and grudgingly tolerate stop-and-go traffic in the mountains on ski weekends. But every time it snows those jams turn into blockages that snarl not just the interstate but nearby mountain towns as on-ramps back up to street lights, block business entrances and cause headaches for locals….

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed during the 1999 attack on Columbine High School, is pictured in this undated file photo close to her high school graduation. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post) Nearly 26 years after the world watched teens escape from windows at Columbine High School covered in blood, the toll of…

Just how messy has the fight over a vacant office building near Belmar Park become? Well, no one has been able to get any construction projects – not single-family homes, duplexes, or large condos — approved since Dec. 7, thanks to an absolute catastrophe of public policy developed by citizens opposed to the development. The…