Month: February 2025

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…

Editor’s note: This was written by The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board. In a court filing Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said that he would withdraw his consortium’s eye-popping bid of $94.7 billion for Sam Altman’s OpenAI if its board of directors would agree to retain its status as a charity, rather than go ahead with…

An unidentified federal employee said a lot of the right things outside of apartments in east Denver Wednesday morning – they were looking for criminals and didn’t want to go door to door harassing residents but were left no choice by jail officials who refused to release criminals to their custody. But a video and reports…

We can follow the misguided path that has led state officials to purchase the Stanley Hotel for a cool $475 million plus interest, and we want to put up some serious roadblocks to make sure future public officials don’t follow. Colorado’s government should not be in the hotel and hospitality business. Just like how our…