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.

Donald Trump talks to reporters after an Aug. 6, 2015, Republican primary debate in Cleveland.

Plunkett: Trump鈥檚 disregard for the press, like Clinton鈥檚, is dangerous

November 21, 2016 at 9:01 a.m.

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.

Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of Nov. 9, 2016 in New York City.

Plunkett: Welcome to Trump Land

November 14, 2016 at 2:06 a.m.

Welcome to Trump Land. It抖阴ap 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.

Donald Trump listens to a question during an interview after a July 11 campaign rally in Virginia Beach, Va.

Plunkett: The GOP didn鈥檛 need a bully in chief

November 11, 2016 at 3:53 p.m.

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...

Amendment 72 would raise taxes on a pack of cigarettes from 84 cents a pack to $2.59 a pack.

Plunkett: What cigarettes tell us about rigged systems

November 4, 2016 at 5:37 p.m.

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.

If Colorado voters pass Amendment 69l this year, a typical elderly couple on Social Security and Medicare would save nearly $2,000 per year,

Plunkett: How to vote on aid in dying?

October 28, 2016 at 5:06 p.m.

What, ultimately, does individual liberty mean to you?

Plunkett: On retiring The Denver Post’s opinion polls

October 27, 2016 at 3:36 p.m.

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.

White dove against American flag background

Plunkett: Give entrenched centrism a chance

October 21, 2016 at 4:04 p.m.

How does a divided country stand? How does a divided country stand itself?

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during Sunday night's debate in St. Louis.

Plunkett: Trump is the bogeyman we need

October 14, 2016 at 10:27 p.m.

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...

Former President Bill Clinton puts his arm around Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after the Sept. 26 presidential debate.

Plunkett: A long journey from Arkansas to a presidential endorsement

October 8, 2016 at 6:05 p.m.

An Arkansan by birth, I鈥檇 grown up watching the Clintons. Hillary Rodham, as she was known then, was the first feminist I鈥檇 ever seen or heard talk or observed people...

The Denver Post building at 101 W. Colfax Ave.

Plunkett: We’re still the voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire

October 1, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

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.

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