Author: Gazette Editorial Board

Board members of Colorado Springs District 49 School District will soon consider the brilliant idea of defending children against drugs. What a strange new concept in doped-up Colorado, where children are practically expendable. It’s a refreshing concept in a state that responds with no outrage and surprise when toddlers drop dead after confusing our ubiquitous…

Colorado’s dubious distinction as the No. 1 state in the nation for auto theft is far worse than just an embarrassment. It is “devastating.” That’s how former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey puts it in today’s Perspective section in The Gazette. Morrissey, a career-long prosecutor who’s now a criminal justice fellow at Colorado’s Common Sense…

Several recent Gazette headlines, though seemingly unrelated, in fact converge to spell trouble for transportation in our state. Too much rage, not enough sobriety and too few lanes to drive on are brewing a perfect storm on Colorado’s highways and roads. Given the chilling news of stranger-on-stranger shooting deaths in two separate incidents on Interstate…

It looks like Colorado is on track for the second year in a row to claim the dubious title of No. 1 state for auto theft. That’s among the startling findings of the latest crime study released Thursday by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute. Alarming, galling, embarrassing and depressing are among the words that should come…

On this Labor Day, let’s put in proper perspective the current predicament of Colorado’s workers. Americans have continued to set the international standard for work ethic and ingenuity — rising from bed, kissing loved ones goodbye and punching the clock like we always have — all while government actions and market reactions out of workers’…

Stunning, lurid and devastating allegations against a former Arapahoe County child protective services worker — brought to light by The Gazette’s dogged reporting — have implications statewide. Most notably, if the ex-employee’s alleged, outrageous abuses could occur at one such county agency that handles cases of child abuse and neglect, a re-examination of procedures and…

There was more bad news for Big Marijuana in Colorado last week. As reported in The Gazette, Coloradans as well as “pot tourists” visiting the state appear to be spending nowhere near as much on marijuana products as they did at the height of the pandemic. That’s the upshot of the latest pot sales stats…

Another name was added to Colorado’s list of fallen law officers this past weekend. It served as a grim reminder — yet another — of the perils faced routinely by members of law enforcement. They risk all on a daily basis so that the rest of us don’t have to. Andrew Peery, a SWAT officer…

As if the price at the pump weren’t high enough, Colorado motorists could wind up paying another half a buck per gallon thanks to a pending federal action. As The Gazette reported Wednesday, it was our own Gov. Jared Polis who actually had egged on the feds a couple of years ago. He wrote the…

Colorado’s No. 3 city aims to blaze a trail toward smarter management of our scarcest resource — water. An aggressive proposal to do just that — getting ahead of the curve on water use to accommodate coming growth and development — will face Aurora’s City Council on Monday. First-term Mayor Mike Coffman shared the sweeping…