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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.
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Plunkett: Trumpās disregard for the press, like Clintonās, is dangerous
We all should hope that Trump embraces the press pool, toughens open records laws and demands that bureaucrats from town councils to his own office show the public their work.

Plunkett: Welcome to Trump Land
Welcome to Trump Land. It¶¶Ņõap no longer an idea, but the new reality. And since I have formally entered Trump Land, I have found it to be a surreal place.

Plunkett: The GOP didnāt need a bully in chief
Throughout this election season I kept thinking about Mitt Romney, John McCain, every once in a while Richard Nixon, and what I would have hoped to have asked Donald Trump...

Plunkett: What cigarettes tell us about rigged systems
Too often those of us who champion free markets and push back at excessive government regulation sometimes forgot it also is important to call BS on businesses that harm others.

Plunkett: How to vote on aid in dying?
What, ultimately, does individual liberty mean to you?

Plunkett: On retiring The Denver Post’s opinion polls
As of now, we will no longer run the Denver Post opinion poll in our print editorial page and online opinion section. Here's why.

Plunkett: Give entrenched centrism a chance
How does a divided country stand? How does a divided country stand itself?

Plunkett: Trump is the bogeyman we need
I used to think of Donald Trump as disruptive technology, as the first smartphone everyone had to have. Now he appears as the new phone that catches fire in your...

Plunkett: A long journey from Arkansas to a presidential endorsement
An Arkansan by birth, Iād grown up watching the Clintons. Hillary Rodham, as she was known then, was the first feminist Iād ever seen or heard talk or observed people...

Plunkett: We’re still the voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
Last week we added former Gazette reporter Megan Schrader to the board as an editorial writer. And starting next Sunday, Perspective readers will again see columns from Vincent Carroll.