Chuck Plunkett

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Chuck Plunkett

Chuck Plunkett is a former Denver Post editorial page editor. He resigned in 2018. A professional journalist for more than 20 years, he served as The Post's politics editor from July 2011 through July 2016. Plunkett worked for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, his hometown paper, and for The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review before coming to The Denver Post in 2003.

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference Thursday at the White House.

Plunkett: About Trump’s press conference: Some takeaways

February 20, 2017 at 8:09 p.m.

Why did Trump choose the press conference format in the first place? Certainly press conferences have their place, but this one became a missed opportunity.

President Donald Trump listens as television producer Mark Burnett introduces him at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 2 in Washington.

Plunkett: Fighting like a rooster, Trump lays an egg

February 11, 2017 at 8:34 p.m.

Much has been said about how Trump鈥檚 working-class base sees so much in him the rest of us don鈥檛. But why do they? And how do they after his first...

President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 1.

Plunkett: Osama bin Laden must be laughing in hell

November 3, 2017 at 5:14 p.m.

Remember al-Qaida鈥檚 goal: humiliating Americans before the eyes of the world. How pleased the miscreant would be to have a television before him now.

Plunkett: Let抖阴ap purge the brain dead from our roads

January 28, 2017 at 5:01 p.m.

Every day on streets and roads and highways, an invasive force takes over that risks life and property, befouls traffic in our fair city and across our wonderful state.

Plunkett: Second thoughts on an editorial cartoon

January 21, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Running an editorial cartoon recently kept me up nights, because I believe I made a mistake.

A group of men wait in the shadows at a Mexican customs station in Nogales, Mexico, after being detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona and returned to Mexico Thursday.

Plunkett: Tell us your immigration stories

January 6, 2017 at 1:41 p.m.

How is this country about to treat those who are in it illegally?

"Star Wars" fans of all ages hold up candles and lightsabers during a vigil for actress Carrie Fisher at the The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space museum on December 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The vigil, for Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the famous movie, was held in front of the model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter jet on display at the museum. Fisher died of an apparent heart attack on December 27th at the age of 60. Her mother Debbie Reynolds died today from an apparent stroke. Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post

Plunkett: Remembering Carrie Fisher as we head into the Year of the Rooster

December 31, 2016 at 6:28 p.m.

I never really thought of women the same after seeing Princess Leia that first time.

Plunkett: Newspaper subscriptions and the social contract

December 17, 2016 at 5:01 p.m.

What is one鈥檚 responsibility when it comes to paying for the news? Shouldn鈥檛 supporting newsrooms be a part of the social contract?

Plunkett: Is it news, just sensational, or public shaming?

December 10, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

When I was getting started in journalism, an editor sent me to a small, poor, predominantly black town in Arkansas to cover a rally by the Ku Klux Klan.

Plunkett: On the passing of talking to the pizza dudes

November 26, 2016 at 5:01 p.m.

I struggle with the idea that the era of talking to the pizza dudes had passed. For the day is coming.

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