Daily Camera Editorial

A few million dollars spend on a chancellor's home may look small on CU's balance sheet, but it looks huge to students struggling to afford college. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

CU selling chancellor’s $3.75M new house doesn’t look like fiscal responsibility (Editorial)

July 12, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

A few million dollars spend on a chancellor's home may look small on CU's balance sheet, but it looks huge to students struggling to afford college.

Next year, six seats on RTD’s board, including those representing Boulder and Longmont, will be up for election. And as it looks now, that board is in dire need of a shake-up to reinvigorate leadership and actually see to it that our transit agency meets the needs of our communities. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

RTD’s budget woes raise serious questions about its priorities – and FasTracks (Editorial)

December 9, 2025 at 9:07 a.m.

Next year, six seats on RTD’s board, including those representing Boulder and Longmont, will be up for election. And as it looks now, that board is in dire need of...

After the House settlement made it possible for colleges to directly pay student athletes, the price of competing has become a lot more expensive. CU must approach this new frontier with reasonable expectations and responsible decision-making. Direct institutional support of athletics must have a limit — and CU must approach all decisions with its mission as an educational institution at the fore. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)

The price of Buffs football glory just got a lot more expensive (Editorial)

September 7, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

After the House settlement made it possible for colleges to directly pay student athletes, the price of competing has become a lot more expensive. CU must approach this new frontier...

Editorial: (A safe) Home for the Holidays for Afghan families finding a new life and home in Boulder

December 25, 2021 at 6:01 a.m.

Ella Nabiyar plans to find a Christmas tree with her family today. It doesn’t sound newsworthy, unless you figure that her extended family -- including her mom, sister, cousins, nieces...

People hold up signs during a rally against "critical race theory" being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - "Are you ready to take back our schools?" Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as "oppressors." "Yes!", answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against "critical race theory," the latest battleground of America's ongoing culture wars. The term "critical race theory" defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers' efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Editorial: Critical Race Theory is a patriotic, honest look at American history

June 22, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck and his colleagues have hijacked what is an insightful and malleable theory to mean something ugly and divisive.

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