Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Answering the call of Colorado’s mental health crisis
Yet again, there’s troubling news about mental health in our state — and it demands a response. As reported last week in The Gazette, Colorado has endured nearly the worst rate in the nation of mental illness among children and adults for two years in a row. That’s according to the newly released findings of…
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EDITORIAL: Answering the call of Colorado’s mental health crisis
Yet again, there’s troubling news about mental health in our state — and it demands a response. As reported last week in The Gazette, Colorado has endured nearly the worst rate in the nation of mental illness among children and adults for two years in a row. That’s according to the newly released findings of…
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EDITORIAL: Answering the call of Colorado’s mental health crisis
Yet again, there’s troubling news about mental health in our state — and it demands a response. As reported last week in The Gazette, Colorado has endured nearly the worst rate in the nation of mental illness among children and adults for two years in a row. That’s according to the newly released findings of…
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EDITORIAL: D-11 teachers union plays hooky
On Wednesday — just two days before ballots are mailed to voters for the District 11 school board election — the Colorado Springs Education Association plans a walkout at district schools. The union’s strike is not about wages, benefits or working conditions — its usual beefs. This time, it’s about power and control. It’s a…
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EDITORIAL: Denver City Hall buys real estate like it’s Monopoly
Denver City Hall has put up the homeless in tent towns it has built as well as in hotels it has purchased. So, the administration of Mayor Mike Johnston must reason it’s no big deal to take the next step — buying and building longer-term “affordable housing.” Using taxpayers’ dollars, of course. Which, to City…
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EDITORIAL: D-11 teachers union plays hooky
On Wednesday — just two days before ballots are mailed to voters for the District 11 school board election — the Colorado Springs Education Association plans a walkout at district schools. The union’s strike is not about wages, benefits or working conditions — its usual beefs. This time, it’s about power and control. It’s a…
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EDITORIAL: Denver City Hall buys real estate like it’s Monopoly
Denver City Hall has put up the homeless in tent towns it has built as well as in hotels it has purchased. So, the administration of Mayor Mike Johnston must reason it’s no big deal to take the next step — buying and building longer-term “affordable housing.” Using taxpayers’ dollars, of course. Which, to City…
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EDITORIAL: Propositions LL & MM — good money after bad
As if Coloradans needed another reason to vote against the tax hikes of Propositions LL and MM — placed on this November’s ballot by our free-spending legislature — a new analysis released this week provides as good an argument as any. The Common Sense Institute’s latest report on the subject reminds us the fundamentally misguided…
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EDITORIAL: Propositions LL & MM — good money after bad
As if Coloradans needed another reason to vote against the tax hikes of Propositions LL and MM — placed on this November’s ballot by our free-spending legislature — a new analysis released this week provides as good an argument as any. The Common Sense Institute’s latest report on the subject reminds us the fundamentally misguided…
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EDITORIAL: Propositions LL & MM — good money after bad
As if Coloradans needed another reason to vote against the tax hikes of Propositions LL and MM — placed on this November’s ballot by our free-spending legislature — a new analysis released this week provides as good an argument as any. The Common Sense Institute’s latest report on the subject reminds us the fundamentally misguided…