Colorado isn’t ready for major changes to our election system, even if adopting an all-party primary and ranked-choice general election could mean more and perhaps better choices for voters in future years. Tina Peters’ saga of dragging Colorado’s election system through the mud just came to an end this month when she was sentenced to…
The Denver Post’s endorsements for the 2024 election
The Denver Post Editorial Board is making endorsements on state-wide and City of Denver ballot measures ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024 election. The Post is not endorsing candidates this year. Ballots for the election will be mailed to registered voters as early as Friday, Oct. 11, and will begin arriving the following week. Oct….
Endorsement: Guarantee all Coloradans have reproductive freedom with Amendment 79
Colorado voters have an opportunity this fall to guarantee reproductive freedom in the state Constitution, and also to finally make certain that this liberty doesn’t just pertain to affluent women with private health insurance. We urge people to vote “yes” on Amendment 79. This amendment is needed to repeal another constitutional amendment passed by Colorado…
Endorsement: The folly behind Denver’s slaughterhouse and fur bans
Denver voters can reject two misguided ballot measures and send a strong message to animal welfare advocates that Colorado will not bully our ranchers and hat makers out of business. Initiated Ordinance 308 would ban new textile fur products like mink fur coats and beaver skin hats from being sold inside city limits and Initiated…
Endorsement: Ballot Issue 2Q is a much needed sales tax for Denver Health
The Front Range’s largest safety net hospital is struggling to subsist and Ballot Issue 2Q would infuse Denver Health with $70 million a year. Denver Post Endorsements 2024 Endorsement: Ballot Issue 4A Denver Public Schools $1 billion bond Endorsement: Ballot Issue 2R affordable housing sales tax Endorsement: Proposition 129 creating a master’s degree program for…
Endorsement: Will Proposition 129 help or hurt Colorado pets and their vets?
If you’ve taken an animal to a veterinarian in Colorado recently, you know that medical care for pets isn’t cheap. Even a routine checkup for vaccines, heartworm prevention, and diet recommendations can cost a couple of hundred dollars, and any medical procedure starts at $1,000 and can reach $10,000 quickly. A ballot measure could help…
Endorsement: On Ballot Measure 2R, Denver voters should say not this tax, not this time
Mayor Mike Johnston has a plan to infuse our tax dollars into the housing crisis to help build affordable housing in a city that has become all but unobtainable for middle-class Coloradans. But we have to agree with Denver city council members who expressed grave concerns about the plan to raise Denver’s sales tax to…
Opinion: Goodbye Tucker Carlson. I’ll miss the cartoons.
Tucker Carlson will no longer be on Fox News. The announcement Monday that Carlson and Fox had parted ways came after Fox had agreed to pay out three quarters of a billion dollars to Dominion in a defamation lawsuit that rested heavily on Carlson’s on-air reporting about election fraud coupled with his off-air text messages…
Colorado teen: “I’m trying.”
Editor’s note: Madison Schilling submitted her artwork to The Denver Post after her teacher at Green Mountain High School in Lakewood encouraged her to share it with a broader audience. Her hope is that it will help adults and teens cope with a difficult year of remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. To send a…
Cartoons: Rod Blagojevich, Donald Trump and clemency
On Tuesday, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who’s been serving time in Colorado prison. Trump also pardoned former NYPD commissioner Bernie Kerik and granted clemency to financier Michael Milken.