The Denver Post Editorial Board
The Denver Post’s editorial board takes positions on issues and politics that affect Colorado. To contact the board or to set up an editorial board meeting, email Megan Schrader at [cq comment="mailto:mschrader@denverpost.com" ].Send letters of up to 250 words to the editor to openforum@denverpost.com. Send columns of up to 750 words to columns@denverpost.com.The members of the board are all employees of The Denver Post:Megan Schrader is the editor of the editorial pages. She started as an opinion writer at The Post in 2016 and before that covered the Colorado Capitol for the Colorado Springs Gazette. As editor, she writes the editorials that represent the board's opinions and she helps select letters and columns for publication in print and online. She covered schools and politics at The Oklahoman and the Gainesville Sun (Florida). She also interned at the Kansas City Star and the Grand Junction Free Press.Lee Ann Colacioppo is the editor of The Denver Post, a position she has held since 2016. She joined the editorial board in 2018 and in that role is a voting member of the board and frequently edits Denver Post editorials. Her first job at The Post was in 1999 as an assistant city editor. She previously worked at The Des Moines Register, Greenville (S.C.) News and Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News.Bob Kinney is vice president of technology for The Denver Post and its parent company, MediaNews Group. He’s worked at various newspapers throughout his career, arriving in Denver in 1995 to work for the Rocky Mountain News. Kinney joined The Post in 2001.Monica Brewer has been with The Denver Post for 26 years. She assists the editor with newsroom operations and manages the editorial operating budget. Monica is a native of Colorado and an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota nation.TJ Hutchinson is the systems editor of The Denver Post and has worked at The Post since 1997. Hutchinson compiles and edits letters to the editor for the Opinion pages in addition to her role on the board. A Metropolitan State University Denver graduate, she previously worked at the Long Beach Press-Telegram in California and Orange Coast Daily Pilot in California.
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ICE is lawlessly detaining Coloradans. The judicial branch is our only hope (Editorial)
"Trump’s immigration enforcement squad cannot just smash and grab Coloradans because they suspect someone might be here illegally."

No City of Denver bailout for investors who bet on risky metro district bonds (Editorial)
"Under no circumstances should the City of Denver bail out the bad investments made into risky bonds at the old Gates Rubber Co. redevelopment site." -- Denver Post Editorial Board

Nebraska has the right to take more water, but South Platte farmers weren’t born yesterday (Editorial)
Landowners in Colorado have proven unwilling to sell land for the new canal. An obvious development given that the canal could limit how much water the very farmers who own...

Colorado’s teens shouldn’t have to be heroes during mass shootings, but they are (Editorial)
Matthew Silverstone, at the young age of 18, has sacrificed more for Colorado than most can imagine.

California and Arizona negotiators targeting Colorado’s water users should look closer to home (Opinion)
Arizona and California’s chief water negotiators are coming for Colorado in a blistering public pressure campaign aimed at getting upper basin states to capitulate.

DIA executives paid more to fly to Spain than some luxury travel options for the ultra-wealthy (Editorial)
Regardless of the ethics board’s “technical” conclusion, Denver residents know that it is unethical for a public employee to spend $19,200 on a ticket to Spain and back to Denver.

Federal court ruling is a chance for Catholic preschools to open their doors to all children (Editorial)
The ruling is in accordance with long-standing practices – churches can either accept state and federal funding for their education programs or they can discriminate based on sexual orientation, race,...

Forget unions and charters, this November, save Denver’s school choice lottery (Editorial)
Denverites should keep one thing in mind at the ballot box this November – Denver Public Schools has some of the very best schools in the state and also some...

Colorado learned long ago that no school is safe from gun violence — a lesson Jeffco should have heeded (Editorial)
The tragedy at Evergreen High School reminds us that even this country’s most idyllic communities — from our mountain towns to the quaint cities on the plains — must prepare...

Colorado voters are dissatisfied with Democrats. Polis, Hickenlooper and Bennet can’t hide (Editorial)
Americans are recoiling from our two dismal political parties, and even in blue states like Colorado Democrats are feeling the burn.