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Despite opposition, Colorado should keep requiring Xcel to buy electricity from rooftop solar panels (Opinion)

I’m a fan of net metering because it forces Xcel Energy, which enjoys a monopoly in my area, to discount our bill for any energy our solar panels produce that I don't use.

In this 2015 file photo, Chris Kouns, left and Dave Cook, right, with Bella Energy, finish installing solar panels on the roof top of 1535 Spruce Street in Boulder. (Helen Richardson, The Denver Post)

A child holds an iPhone at an Apple store on Sept. 25, 2015 in Chicago. Colorado lawmakers are proposing regulating social media to keep illegal activities away from kids with Senate Bill 86. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Opinion: A Polis veto will only keep drug dealers, sex traffickers on social media

A city surveillance camera captured the scene of a mass shooting early Tuesday morning in downtown Denver as thousands celebrated the Denver Nuggets' NBA championship. Ten people were shot and wounded -- including a man suspected of opening fire -- in the shooting near 20th and Market streets, though all are expected to survive. (Video still via Denver Police Department)

Denver’s surveillance-state must be balanced with our freedoms (letters)

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Michael Bennet should resign his U.S. Senate seat to run for governor (Denver Post editorial)
We served national forests under both parties, and know today our public lands are in danger (Opinion)
Letters: Don’t dry the Lower Arkansas Valley by selling rights to water hungry developers

Editorials

Travelers take RTD A-Train to Denver International Airport from Union Station in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Editorial: Could these two Peña Boulevard alternatives work? For $15 million let’s find out.

For $15 million, Peak Consulting needs to look at these two alternatives to widening Peña Boulevard. Forcing traffic patterns onto those other two routes could save money and help the environment.

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Colorado lawmakers, RTD directors, Gov. Jared Polis and others rode a ceremonial first train 44 miles from Denver Union Station to Longmont, checking out the route for the
Front Range Passenger Rail system on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)

Opinion: Even with the decades-long wait and $3.2 billion price, Coloradans deserve Front Range passenger rail

For a project that was brought into existence years ago by legislation, there is very little evidence of a front range passenger railway coming along.

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(L-R) Elon Musk, Ivanka Trump, and Jeff Bezos speak to one another at a candlelight dinner for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the National Building Museum on Jan. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.Â Trump will be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president on Jan. 20. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Letters: Trump isn’t running an “oligarchy.” It’s a “kleptocracy.”

According to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, seven oligarchs contributed a total of $1 billion to elect Trump and other Republicans.

Opinion

Despite opposition, Colorado should keep requiring Xcel to buy electricity from rooftop solar panels (Opinion)

Denver’s surveillance-state must be balanced with our freedoms (letters)

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Michael Bennet should resign his U.S. Senate seat to run for governor (Denver Post editorial)

We served national forests under both parties, and know today our public lands are in danger (Opinion)

Letters: Don’t dry the Lower Arkansas Valley by selling rights to water hungry developers

Editorials

Editorial: Could these two Peña Boulevard alternatives work? For $15 million let’s find out.

Editorial: Vaccine hesitant? Pueblo measles case is reason to revisit MMR risks

Editorial: Polis is right. Let’s find a compromise that preserves the Labor Peace Act.

Editorial: Jeanette Vizguerra’s detention mocks ICE’s important work to deport dangerous criminals

Editorial: OpenAI seeks license to steal with latest plea to Trump administration

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Opinion: Even with the decades-long wait and $3.2 billion price, Coloradans deserve Front Range passenger rail

Opinion: Why couldn’t we protect veterans from unscrupulous actors?

Opinion: Vacancy appointments have become Colorado’s new pipeline to office, undermining democracy

Brita Horn: As the new chair of Colorado’s GOP, I will reopen the big tent

Opinion: Children should not be able to access pornography online

Letters

Letters: Trump isn’t running an “oligarchy.” It’s a “kleptocracy.”

Letters: As a leader for “family values” surely Johnson supports proxy voting?

Letters: The caviar-filled crepes in Aspen represent a rich indifference

Letters: Increasing RTD frequency just means more empty seats

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