Author: Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITIORIAL: Panicked policies won’t stem gun violence
Coloradans on nerve’s edge in the wake of mass shootings have nothing to fear from a federal court ruling last Friday that stalled new gun-control measures in the town of Superior. That’s because the local ordinance the court temporarily halted was pointless to begin with. It deserves to be struck down and perhaps will be,…
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EDITORIAL: Reforms needed in judging our judges
The judiciary is so powerful — and in some ways, so cloaked in secrecy — it warrants all the transparency and accountability it can muster. It must not appear to be above the laws it is charged with interpreting and enforcing. Yet, in the light of a controversy that has rocked Colorado’s highest court —…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado criminal convicts walked free
A “halfway house” is supposed to be just that — a transition that prepares prisoners for a return to society. It’s not supposed to be an easy means of escape. Incredibly, it was the latter in Colorado under an outrageous policy that was adopted by the state Department of Corrections and abetted by “justice reform”…
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EDITORIAL: ‘Anti-racism’ widens the racial divide
A refreshing interview this week by our news affiliate Colorado Politics challenges current wisdom about addressing racism — and offers tonic for what ails race relations these days in Colorado and across the country. “As a child, I found myself fighting a war on two fronts. I was one of the few Black kids in…
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EDITORIAL: Help wanted: Colorado teachers of color
In a perfect world, kids would be colorblind. Neither their own race nor their teachers’ would matter to their education. Our hope is that society eventually will get to that point, but until it does, some of Colorado’s children of color might be looking for a role model at the head of the class. The…
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EDITORIAL: Coloradans can thank TABOR for their tax rebate
Like a lottery jackpot, Colorado’s state revenue surplus keeps growing. And so do the rebates that will be returned to the state’s taxpayers in the next few months. The latest news, reported Wednesday in The Gazette, is taxpayers can expect to receive at least $750 in the mail — up from the previous $500 estimate.…
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EDITORIAL: Hold Colorado’s judiciary accountable
Try waving off a subpoena with a “no thanks” if you’re served with one. Good luck. That’s a privilege reserved only to Colorado’s highest court and the secretive and insular Judicial Department over which the court presides. It seems those in charge of the state’s courts can swat away a subpoena — even when it’s…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s pot peddlers sing the blues
It didn’t break our hearts to read in The Gazette this week that Coloradans have been buying “considerably less” legal marijuana than a year ago. We could shed only crocodile tears for the increasingly cynical industry aptly dubbed Big Marijuana. As The Gazette reported, the latest monthly stats the Colorado Department of Revenue compiled on…
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EDITORIAL: A new law won’t solve trash hauling problems
Three Colorado Springs City Council members want to mandate better service from the community’s six residential trash haulers. They want performance mandates backed by fines. It’s a garbage idea, and no one can dispute this fact (cheesy pun intended). On Nextdoor.com are routine threads complaining about garbage service, all over the country. Pickups are late,…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado has the highest auto theft rate in the nation. One man seeks to take action.
Colorado has the highest rate of auto theft in the nation. It’s No. 1 among the states — and it’s worse than just an embarrassing and dubious distinction. It’s also a potent reminder of the state’s skyrocketing crime rate overall, including for violent crimes, drug crimes and property crimes. Rampant motor vehicle thefts fuel those…