Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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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: Locals need a say in community development
A small-town tussle over plans for Colorado’s second Buc-ee’s — on I-25 along the Palmer Divide, between Denver and Colorado Springs — has mushroomed over the past half year into a statewide debate that has drawn in wide-ranging stakeholders and even political luminaries. The controversy could be resolved as early as today, when the Palmer…
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EDITORIAL: An ag dividend for all of Colorado
Colorado is about to reap a hefty reward from ongoing efforts by the Trump administration to decentralize the federal bureaucratic behemoth. The north Front Range and Fort Collins will be the most direct beneficiaries, but our whole state and region will gain. That’s the upshot of an analysis by Colorado’s Common Sense Institute into the…
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EDITORIAL: Making way for more Colorado inmates
Looks like Colorado’s corrections system is about to get more beds to accommodate an uptick in its prison population. The extra accommodations are overdue. So is the state’s newfound willingness to put at least a few more of its lawbreakers behind bars. And kudos to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee at the State Capitol for…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado plays ‘catch me if you can’
It appears authorities have collared the latest criminal suspect to make a mockery of Colorado’s dangerously lax competency laws. The public can breathe a sigh of relief — for now, at least. The Gazette reported on Friday that Ephraim Debisa, 21, had been arrested for allegedly bringing a gun to the University of Northern Colorado…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s next budget crunch
Like slacker students who flunked a course and had to make it up in summer school, Colorado state lawmakers who were summoned back to the Capitol last month — to patch a gaping hole in the current state budget — knew they had gathered under a stigma. Convened by Gov. Jared Polis, they sullenly filed…
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EDITORIAL: ‘Crowded’ prisons = safer Colorado
Let’s welcome news reported by The Gazette this week that Colorado’s prison population is on the rise, with more lawbreakers reportedly behind bars for parole violations. That’s encouraging in a state that has weathered an epic crime wave in recent years, often enough at the hands of parolees. The surge in our prison population reflects…
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EDITORIAL: Stop the left from stealing our votes
Left-wing Boulder politicians, who control state government, would annex Colorado to California if they could. Monument Mayor Don Wilson would try stopping them. Unable to conjoin Colorado and California, the Boulder left sold us out to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact this year. The new law would give all nine of Colorado’s Electoral College…