Editor of the editorial pages
Megan Schrader
Megan Schrader is the editor of The Denver Post opinion pages. She writes editorials for the newspaper that represent the opinion of The Denver Post editorial board, of which she is one of six members. She also writes a personal opinion column and is responsible for selecting content for the daily opinion pages and the four-page Perspective section on Sundays.
Schrader has been at The Post since September 2016. Before joining The Post's opinion team, she was a Denver-based political reporter for The Gazette in Colorado Springs, a political and education reporter for The Oklahoman, and a city hall reporter for The Gainesville Sun in Florida.
Education: BA in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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Trisha Flynn was honored in her time by the Anti-Defamation League, Big Sisters of Colorado and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. She was on the leading edge...
Opinion: The narrow path to keep two Colorado extremists out of Congress
Allowing the minority of far-right voters in Congressional District 4 to select the worst possible candidate where no one on the ballot tops 30% of the vote, will have a...
Schrader: Pueblo’s mayor is wrong, politicians shouldn’t let special interests speak or write for them
Mayor Heather Graham did not write a guest column imploring lawmakers to kill two bills -- a lobbyist did.
Opinion: Did Ken Buck resign early just to make things harder for Lauren Boebert?
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck's early departure at first blush seems carefully calculated to keep Lauren Boebert from becoming his successor in Colorado's 4th Congressional District on the eastern plains.
Opinion: What Denver Public Schools doesn’t want parents to know during school choice enrollment
I expected the district, as part of this transition away from data that shows student growth on state tests year over year, to provide parents with data about teacher turnover,...
Opinion: One’s an ultra-MAGA Fox producer, the other Colorado’s liberal kingmaker. Their love is a lesson for America.
How, in today’s divided America, have these two men remained together for 11 years, getting married on Dec. 31, 2019, despite their stark political differences?
Opinion: Three incumbents leave Colorado’s Republican Party in disarray. Surely, the chair won’t get distrac …
The chair of the struggling Republican Party sent out an official email from the state party’s email announcing he would run for one of the newly vacant seats … while...
Opinion: After more than 30 years, Ved Nanda’s voice in The Post falls silent
For more than 30 years, Ved Nanda inspired the humanitarian spirit in Denver Post readers with his regular columns.
Opinion: Does Boebert’s unabashed seat shopping really matter?
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s decision to cut and run for Congress on the other side of Colorado is a gross political attempt to retain office at all costs.
Opinion: Naughty or nice? Boebert, Coach Prime, Jokić, Casa Bonita and more
Security footage of Lauren Boebert kissing and groping her date while he rubbed her breast at the Buell Theater was enough to make even Colorado’s hardworking strippers blush.