Author: The Gazette Editorial Board
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EDITORIAL: Scapegoating employers for lawmakers’ Medicaid madness
Any large employers still on the fence about expanding in Colorado and creating jobs here are likely to look elsewhere after they get wind of a bill now making its way through the legislature. House Bill 26-1327, sponsored by state Rep. Lisa Feret, D-Arvada, would assess Colorado’s largest employers thousands of dollars for each employee…
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EDITORIAL: A winning formula for a Springs data center
Kudos to the Colorado Springs city officials for putting in the legwork on what promises to be the state’s largest data center, which will open at an unused microchip manufacturing plant on the city’s northwest side. The Gazette reported last week California-based Raeden, a Bay Area real estate and tech firm, has been working with…
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EDITORIAL: Lawmakers were out of their lane on therapy ban
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unsurprising, 8-1 ruling Tuesday telling Colorado it can’t micromanage the advice therapists give patients — particularly on sexual orientation or gender identity — is a rebuke to our legislature to stay in its lane. And to get back to work. Alas, the actual job description of our elected state lawmakers may…
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EDITORIAL: Hemp beverage bill is bad news for Colorado kids
Just what Colorado’s kids need — another way to get high on THC. And another industry to make a buck off of it, backed by a new, well-oiled lobby peddling its influence at our THC-friendly State Capitol. It’s all courtesy of a bill soon to be introduced in the legislature. It would raise — reportedly,…
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EDITORIAL: On a fiscal cliff of their own making
Once again, Colorado legislators are scrambling to address a whopping $1.5 billion deficit of their own making. There’s a simple reason for that. Just last year, when Gov. Jared Polis called a special session to address what was then an $800 million shortfall on a $44 billion budget, lawmakers failed to do the heavy lifting…
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EDITORIAL: Polis preached well at ag fest, but doesn’t practice it
What shall we make of Colorado Agriculture Day and the way our state government, led by Gov. Jared Polis, celebrated the occasion last week? That is, when comparing it to actual state policy affecting agriculture, an economic cornerstone and lifeblood of the Centennial State? It’s good to see the governor and others in our state’s…
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EDITORIAL: A more sensible energy policy for Colorado, please
Our state’s green-energy diehards — including their standard bearer, Gov. Jared Polis — face a heckuva dilemma. On the one hand, they aim to deny Colorado consumers practical choices in the energy marketplace. No coal. Not even natural gas. The Polis administration’s revised green-energy “roadmap” envisions, among other goals, electricity generated only by renewables by…
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EDITORIAL: Keep Springs car traffic flowing
Colorado Springs City Hall is right to troubleshoot crash-prone segments of our local roadways as part of its street-safety agenda, profiled in The Gazette the other day. Hazards abound along the city’s transportation grid — for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists alike. Just so the city’s effort to make upgrades where needed to improve road safety…
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EDITORIAL: Guv finally gets it on prisons — but will lawmakers?
For a change, Gov. Jared Polis is all in on making room for more inmates in Colorado’s correctional institutions. It’s an encouraging turnabout following his years of support for “decarceration.” That unwieldy word sounds like some kind of disease — and might as well be — though it refers to systematically emptying prisons to the…
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EDITORIAL: Illegal immigration gives Coloradans more sticker shock
Who knew it would cost taxpayers so much to provide health care to anyone who lands on the doorstep of Sanctuary Colorado? Evidently, our legislature hadn’t a clue. It turns out it not only costs a lot but in fact runs the tab a lot higher than lawmakers had anticipated. Many times more. As reported…