The Denver Post Editorial Board

Members of The Denver Post’s editorial board are Megan Schrader, editor of the editorial pages; Lee Ann Colacioppo, editor; Justin Mock, CFO; Bill Reynolds, vice president of circulation and production; Bob Kinney, vice president of information technology; and TJ Hutchinson, systems editor.

Abraham Lincoln High School on July 24, 2024 in Denver. (Photo By Kathryn Scott/Special to The Denver Post)

Should Abraham Lincoln High School, and other low-performing Denver schools, be closed? (Editorial)

June 9, 2025 at 1:06 p.m.

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero is right: the more accountability, the better for district schools that are struggling.

Law enforcement officials are on scene to investigate an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. Multiple people were burned, some severely, in an attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall during a vigil that called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages. The FBI director characterized the incident as a “targeted terror attack.” (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

The Boulder attack should deepen Colorado’s support for the Jewish community (Editorial)

June 3, 2025 at 1:05 p.m.

The opportunity to support Colorado's Jewish community will come quickly; Sunday, June 8, is the 30th Boulder Jewish Festival.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston discusses the city budget during a press conference at the Denver Central Library in Denver on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Denver’s cuts will come at a terrible time, but no one should be surprised (Editorial)

May 23, 2025 at 10:18 a.m.

The city has been living high on the hog for more than a decade, growing city government services and hiring hundreds, if not thousands, of new employees.

A sheriff's vehicle is parked outside the Grand County Sheriff's Office on April 22, 2025, in Hot Sulphur Springs. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Grand County boy’s suspicious death would have remained a rural-Colorado secret if not for watchdogs. More transparency is needed. (Editorial)

May 21, 2025 at 8:48 a.m.

When a malnourished and dehydrated 7-year-old died in Grand County with high levels of sodium in his blood, the response from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office was to send an...

Representative Kenneth DeGraaf, Majority leader Monica Duran, standing to his left, and other members of the house laugh during a light-hearted moment on the floor of the House during the last day of the 2025 legislative session the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on May 7, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Polis’ Senate Bill 5 veto maintains the Labor Peace Act, until compromise can be met (Editorial)

May 16, 2025 at 5:42 p.m.

Polis’ decision is one of the most controversial vetoes in recent history. We had joined Polis in calling for a compromise and his veto makes certain that is still possible.

Former Valor Christian head coach Bret McGatlin before his team’s 31-17 loss to Pine Creek Friday, September 1, 2023 at D20 Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Photo by Mark Reis/Special to the Denver Post)

Valor Christian isn’t the only Colorado high school lost to ‘gladiator culture’ (Editorial)

May 15, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

Valor Christian’s former head football coach is the canary in the coal mine for Colorado high school sports.

Cindy Romero holds her phone displaying the viral surveillance video she posted, which allegedly shows armed members of the Tren de Aragua gang at her former apartment building in Aurora. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Trump’s suit against Colorado “sanctuary laws” starts with a lie and only gets worse (Editorial)

May 8, 2025 at 10:23 a.m.

Trump and the DOJ are trying to tear down sanctuary policies so they can use local law enforcement to conduct mass deportations -- rounding up millions of residents whose only...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 25, 2017. At 1:29 a.m. on July 28, 2017, McCain strode onto the Senate floor. The 80-year-old, just weeks after a diagnosis of aggressive brain cancer, was poised to cast the tiebreaker vote on the GOP's health care bill, in what was meant to be the fulfillment of work to undo President Barack Obama's signature health care law. McCain paused for a moment, and then gave the measure a thumbs-down. Some of his fellow Senators, in the dark on the elder legislator's plans, gasped. The bill was dead. (Senate Television via AP)

Many Coloradans would lose Medicaid under Trump’s proposed expansion cuts (Editorial)

May 5, 2025 at 11:18 a.m.

Colorado’s clinics and hospitals are already feeling the strain of losing half a million patients from the post-Covid Medicaid wind-down, and now Congress is threatening to slash and burn the...

Demolition work on the Gates Rubber factory complex continued Tuesday afternoon, November 26, 2013. (Photo By Karl Gehring/The Denver Post)

Is the NWSL stadium a good investment for Denver? (Editorial)

April 28, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

Now redevelopment of the 40-acre site is within grasp, with a promising economic model. But the catch is that the city must invest millions more into a project that has...

Monica Villela poses for a portrait in front of her home in Denver on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Villela has been fighting to keep her home for more than three years after the Town Center Metro District sold the home at a foreclosure auction for unpaid fines. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Investor who snagged Denver home for $23,524 can do the right thing with a deal too good to be true (Editorial)

April 26, 2025 at 9:41 a.m.

It's unethical to foreclose a home over unsightly or inconvenient violations of covenants, and the ethics of snapping up these deals at auction are questionable as well.

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