Carroll: DPS must keep its promise to 500 families and open a DSST high school in far northeast Denver
The Denver School Board promised a DSST high school to complement a middle school in far northeast Denver. They need to keep that promise.
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Carroll: No apologies necessary — language police impeding free speech
Our self-appointed language police are getting harder to please all the time. So I wonder what they would make of a recent exchange at a Meals on Wheels kitchen where...
Carroll: Here’s why Denver shouldn’t disband or defund its police department
Do cops operate under a pervasive racial double standard such that there is little option but to slash their budgets and redirect the money to humane alternatives?
Carroll: Open schools and make accommodations for teachers, students who cannot safely attend
Here are the top five reasons Colorado school districts should provide in-person teaching either at the start of the school year or -- for those already committed to another course...
Carroll: All the reasonable — non-racist — reasons to oppose halfway houses in every neighborhood
The slogan “defund the police” has a twin you may not be familiar with. It¶¶Ňőap “eliminate incarceration.” And it¶¶Ňőap being invoked in Denver to promote a controversial change in the...
Carroll: For decades I’ve supported efforts to curtail police brutality, but most cops aren’t villains
More than 80 percent of all citizens killed by police in Colorado from 2014 through the end of last year were armed, usually with a gun. Eighty-six percent were high...
Carroll: Should Coloradans be wearing masks outside? Not according to what we know right now.
Having misled the public initially on the usefulness of masks during the Covid 19 pandemic, government officials are now completing their 180 degree pivot, with Denver the latest large community...
Carroll: Polis’ decision is perhaps the most critical choice a governor has faced in Colorado history
Who would have thought 18 months ago when Polis was elected that he would become the most important and powerful governor in Colorado history? No previous governor has ever held...
Carroll: A Colorado-wide, stay-at-home order is unnecessary and Polis should stay-the-course
Stay the course, governor. Don’t be stampeded into joining the herd of other states -- and cities and counties for that matter — whose leaders believe a stay-at-home “order” is...
Carroll: Denver should rethink its radical plan for eight or more adults in homes
In many neighborhoods, the effective limit would climb into double figures, raising the possibility of homes being turned into unofficial boarding houses and transforming the quality of life.