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EDITORIAL: Colorado wolves reap what activists have sown

Updated 2 months ago

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...

EDITORIAL: No to ‘CoCo’ — the white elephant on rails

Updated 2 months ago

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...

EDITORIAL: Rising overdoses cry out for a crackdown

Updated 2 months ago

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...

EDITORIAL: Colorado labor law left counties in a straitjacket

Updated 2 months ago

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...

EDITORIAL: A real civics lesson for kids? Write Congress

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: A breath of fresh air on energy policy

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Medicaid monster devours the budget

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Michael Allen for Colorado attorney general — more than ever

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Policing, parenting can curb e-bikes

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Calling Dems to account for the DSA

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: An easy ‘no’ makes it onto Colorado’s ballot

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Hope for Colorado’s highways — or another trick?

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Just say no to Colorado’s ‘CoCo’ tax

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Crank’s accomplishments top his rival’s stale talking points

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: A fail-safe against a crippling tax hike

Updated 2 months ago

If a “progressive,” $2 billion-plus tax hike makes it onto Colorado’s statewide ballot this fall, voters will have a surefire way to neutralize it —...

EDITORIAL: Protect hunting & fishing — and protect nature

Updated 2 months ago

Hunting — among the oldest human activities — is under fire around the country. Fishing will be targeted, too, sooner rather than later. That’s especially...

EDITORIAL: The real ‘deepfake’ is Proposition NN

Updated 2 months ago

Invoking a new campaign finance law, a state senator has filed a complaint against a “deepfake” video that uses her likeness to slam a tax...

EDITORIAL: Capitol’s Dems ignored sex-trafficked kids

Updated 2 months ago

A compelling commentary on the human trafficking of children, published in last Sunday’s Gazette Perspective section, was an urgent call to action for a much-needed...

EDITORIAL: School choice is Colorado kids’ best hope

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: High-THC pot’s perils exposed on the big screen

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Making Colorado a quantum hub

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Jena Griswold’s bad review goes missing

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: The word is out on Colorado, and it’s not good

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Mining’s much-needed comeback begins at Mines

Updated 2 months ago

EDITORIAL: Letting litterbug smokers off the hook

Updated 3 months ago

EDITORIAL: Weiser blunts a records request

Updated 3 months ago

EDITORIAL: A telling sign of state government waste

Updated 3 months ago

EDITORIAL: A refreshing approach to data centers

Updated 3 months ago

EDITORIAL: Kids don’t need another way to get high

Updated 3 months ago

First, it was Colorado’s majority-Democrat legislature that weighed whether to open the floodgates to dangerous, intoxicating hemp-based products. It would have compounded the damage inflicted...

EDITORIAL: Aerospace reaps more rewards for Colorado

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado continues to carry the torch as a dynamo for the nation’s aerospace industry — at a transcendent time for space exploration and space-based defense....

EDITORIAL: Prop. NN’s false promise to Colorado schools

Updated 3 months ago

Every year, the Colorado legislature confronts budget shortfalls of its own making — having created costly programs without the long-term funds to sustain them. And...

EDITORIAL: Police the streets, patch potholes — and leave history to the experts

Updated 3 months ago

We all can agree slavery comprised an unconscionable and repugnant chapter of U.S. history. It was a crime against humanity and betrayed the premise of...