The Denver Post Editorial Board
The Denver Postap 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, ap. 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 ap 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.
All Stories

Editorial: Road rage and reckless driving bring fear to Colorado’s unsafe streets
Coloradans' fear of road rage and reckless driving has grown from an irrational one based on a few tragic stories to a legitimate concern that they or someone they love...

Editorial: Stories abound of Coloradans’ spirit of generosity. Thank you.
Incredible examples of Coloradans' generosity and kindness abound during the Season to Share -- pediatric liver donations, gifts to the Community Foundation, and a rabbi and imam working together for...

Editorial: Give veterans an escape hatch to flee Colorado’s VA scandal
The Denver Postap Sam Tabachnik reported Sunday on a vast scandal of incompetence, cover-ups and misconduct at the VA system headquartered out of Aurora’s new hospital.

Editorial: Democrats are working overtime to reduce taxes. No, hell hasn’t frozen over.
Colorado’s Democrats are officially working overtime this holiday season to … brace yourselves … lower taxes.

Editorial: Was taking McClain’s killers to trial the right thing to do?
Coloradans have known one heartbreaking truth for four long years: Without the aggressive and callous actions of three Aurora police officers and two paramedics, Elijah McClain would be alive today.

Editorial: Colorado Land Board may swap horses midstream at Chico Basin Ranch
The board had better make certain if it's swapping horses midstream that the gamble is worth the money. We're eager to hear deliberations Wednesday night as the board appointed by...

Editorial: Is Donald Trump eligible to be president? Depends on how you define “insurrection.”
The legal question before Wallace is whether Trump’s attempts to stay in office, including fomenting a violent attack on Congress, after losing a free and fair election, were “insurrection” or...

Editorial: Denver’s schools need stable leaders. Here’s how to consider board candidates in 2023.
John Youngquist and Kwame Spearman are running neck and neck for the seat, and either will be a great improvement over current conditions if they stick to their pledges to...

Editorial: Fact checking the dubious Proposition HH claims
Sneaky mailers that imitate an official notice from the government opposing Proposition HH, arrived in mailboxes last week, claiming that the ballot question, if voters say yes, would take away...

Editorial: The Denver Post’s endorsement on Proposition II
A quirk of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights requires that even if voters agree to a tax increase — in this case about $176 million in new tobacco and nicotine...