Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Colorado wolves reap what activists have sown
Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced this week that it had killed three yearling wolves in three separate counties. Two were killed in Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties on Monday, with another in Grand County on Wednesday. As The Gazette reported before the third wolf was killed, the three were among 10 initially brought to Colorado…
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EDITORIAL: No to ‘CoCo’ — the white elephant on rails
Let’s give due credit to the well-oiled PR machine that is toiling to create enough buzz around the promised Front Range Passenger Rail project to snooker voters in 31 Colorado cities into approving a 0.33% sales tax. Orchestrated by the usual army of consultants, barrages of news releases have been advancing a succession of community…
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EDITORIAL: Rising overdoses cry out for a crackdown
El Paso County Coroner Emily Russell-Kinsley revealed some disturbing news this week: The number of accidental overdose deaths in the county last year — 178 — represent a 16% jump over a year earlier. As The Gazette reports, that’s nearly the same percentage by which overdose deaths declined nationwide in that time. Nationally, overdose deaths…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado labor law left counties in a straitjacket
Ruling Democrats at the state Capitol in Denver have been bending over backward for organized labor for years, most notably when Gov. Jared Polis signed collective bargaining power over to state government employees in 2020. Ever since, tens of thousands of staffers in the state bureaucracy have been able to negotiate ever higher wages and…
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EDITORIAL: A real civics lesson for kids? Write Congress
Last week’s overhyped, clumsily orchestrated and, ultimately, underattended walkout by Colorado high schoolers turned out to be largely a flop for its organizers and something of an embarrassment for schools. For one thing, the attempt at a big turnout fell short. The groups behind the demonstration — purportedly a protest against the federal crackdown on…
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EDITORIAL: A breath of fresh air on energy policy
After years of stale rhetoric demanding the unrealistic elimination of all carbon from Colorado’s energy diet — an article of blind faith for our legislature and governor — it’s always refreshing, and empowering, to hear our nation’s energy czar bust the myth. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright challenged the renewables-only mindset once again…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Medicaid monster devours the budget
What goes up, must come down — except when it comes to Colorado’s mushrooming Medicaid spending, it seems. Even as the number of people enrolled in the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled has declined, its cost continues to spiral upward. A Common Sense Institute analysis released last week found the number…
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EDITORIAL: Michael Allen for Colorado attorney general — more than ever
When The Gazette editorial board endorsed 4th Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen for Colorado attorney general in the June 30 Republican primary, it did so because of his extensive legal experience and deep commitment to the law as well as to public service. Leave it to his opponent in the AG’s race, Democratic Secretary of…
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EDITORIAL: Policing, parenting can curb e-bikes
E-bikes seem to be everywhere these days, from neighborhood side streets to busy urban thoroughfares. Too often, they’re also darting in and out of traffic; hopping curbs from sidewalk to street and back again, and generally wreaking havoc with motor vehicles on the road. The riders in such cases, typically young and, often enough, too…
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EDITORIAL: Calling Dems to account for the DSA
Kudos to 5th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado Springs for pressing an essential question: Just how comfortable are Democrats with their party’s growing embrace of socialism? As Gazette news affiliate Colorado Politics reported, Crank passed a resolution Tuesday condemning socialism, largely along party lines, in the U.S. House. HR 1490 cleared the…